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Directed by: Harold Ramis

Starring: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Joe Viterelli, Lisa Kudrow

Theo Sez: So I'm watchin' this movie, 'bout a capo who starts goin' to a shrink on accounta Family trouble, and I'm thinkin', you believe this shit? One minute you're a feared and respected organised-crime syndicate, the next, ba-da-bing ba-da-boom, you're a national joke - what with this and THE DON'S ANALYST from las' year, and that MICKEY BLUE-EYES, not to mention the fuckin' "Sopranos" on TV. Anyway I enjoyed dis movie, though it was pretty fuckin' stupid most of the time, and there was only one fuckin' joke in it anyway, and it wasn't even too well-made if ya know what I'm talkin' about. Like there's this gag where Bobby and the Jewish guy go to a funeral, and this guy comes up to the Jewish guy and starts to hug him Family-style, and the gag is he keeps on huggin' him for about a minute, so it gets embarrassin', only fuckin' Ramis cuts away halfway through for no reason - just 'cause the shot's too long and ya gotta keep cuttin' every ten seconds or whatever - so it totally fucks up the gag. Direction, fuhgedaboutit. So anyway, I enjoyed the movie but I'm worried about how it might be disrespectful, ya know, so I axed my consigliere about it. "Well," he says, "it's the final step in a domestication process that began with THE GODFATHER - but it's still affectionate, using the Mob as a kind of residuum for direct, old-fashioned values, playing their machismo off egghead theorising and New Age absurdities. Besides, it's nothing new - quaint-talking gangsters have been fertile comic ground since the days of Damon Runyon. Didn't you know that? You're such a mook.". So I shot the college-educated little prick. I mean, what you gonna do, ya know?