Billy Crystal: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

...And Five That Sucked

5. Ben Sobel - Analyse That

The amount of genuinely great comedy sequels can be counted on the fingers of a one-armed man - who€™s afflicted with leprosy. Analyse That joined a select list of irredeemable comedy sequels that includes Blue Brothers 2000, Anchorman 2 and Son Of The Mask; and it didn€™t help that the original wasn€™t that great to start with.

The movie has his therapist character again getting involved with Robert De Niro€™s depressed mobster, and they stretch the one joke premise to breaking point before stretching the broken pieces too. Crystal looks like the depressed one here, with his character having nothing to do but watch De Niro mugging his way towards a paycheck.

There€™s no doubt that money was the motivating factor for the film being made €“ and while no one will begrudge Crystal wanting to make some easy money €“ it just would have been nice to see him try to make an effort with it.

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