Video Reviews

ANALYZE THIS
*ing: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal,
Lisa Kudrow
Dir: Harold Ramis
Genre: Comedy
Ultra-Warner, Rs. 285
Here’s a ‘different’ film with a great storyline which has you rolling with laughter. Voted by critics as the funniest comedy of the last decade, it revolves around Robert De Niro, playing the most powerful gangster of New York, Paul Vitti. Having battled the deadliest of criminals, there’s one thing he can’t face in life - the emotional crisis he is going through. So he approaches his family psychiatrist, Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal) to make him happy and come to terms with life. Only the psychiatrist doesn’t know that Vitti’s emotional crisis is going to make his life complicated.

Besides superb performances by Robert De Niro (who proves he is great at comedy as he is at serious roles) and Billy Crystal (his timing is just too perfect), the film boasts of witty exchange of repartee between the two characters. You get completely involved in the film and start analysing it.

TOM & JERRY’S FESTIVAL
OF FUN
Animated Cartoon
Ultra-Warner, Rs. 225
This festival of fun will be lapped up by kids. Here Tom, the tomcat, is at the receiving end, pounded by bull-dogs, sliced by buzz-saws, and blasted by dynamite - because he is chasing the puny mouse Jerry. The different episodes here are titled Tennis Chums (where the mouse causes chaos on the tennis court), Touche, Pussycat (where there’s an interesting sword duel between Tom and Jerry’s friend Tuffy), and Sufferin’ Cats (where Jerry takes on Tom and a rival alley cat). In Blue Cat Blues Tom and Jerry’s friendship is threatened by a female feline, and in The Truce Hurts, Tom, Jerry and Butch, the bull-dog sign a non-aggression pact. Like in all Tom & Jerry cartoon strips, Jerry has the last laugh. Have fun. And if you have your sympathies for Tom, then fret and fume.

Salma Khatib