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 Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:36 pm
The movie starts out in 1978, where a young Dave Buznik sits on a street corner, looking at the girl of his dreams jumping rope. She comes over and wants to play truth or dare. He picks dare, and she says to kiss her. Right as he's about to, the school bully Arnie Shankman pulls down his pants, embarrassing him in front of everybody. In the present day, a grown up Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is about to get on a plane for a business meeting. He works for a cat clothing catalog. His girlfriend Linda (Marisa Tomei) comes with him. Right as he's about to leave she asks for a kiss. He says that people are looking and he doesn't like it when people observe him showing signs of affection. He gives her a handshake and gets on the plane.
On the plane, a person is in his assigned seat. Dave is invited to sit beside a person who introduces himself as Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson). Buddy seems very annoying and laughs out loud at a movie. Not wanting Dave to miss out, he asks for Dave to get a headset. Dave asks for one, but the flight attendant he asks just starts talking nonstop to another flight attendant, generally ignoring his request. Dave asks her again, tapping her on the arm, and she demands that he lower his voice and keep calm, although he is quite calm. Eventually, the flight's air marshal steps in, and Dave unwittingly says a remark the air marshal takes to be racist. Dave apologizes, and the air marshal again tells him to calm down. At this, Dave shouts, "I'm calm!!", and swiftly gets tasered by the air marshal.
The next scene is in a court with Dave on trial. He is found guilty of an assault charge against the flight attendant, and the judge (Lynne Thigpen, in her last role) declares that he should pay $3500 and go for anger management sessions.
When Dave arrives at his first therapy date, he sees Buddy standing on the balcony, conversing. Dave realizes that he will be conducting the session and greets him. He persuades him to sign his papers, but Buddy states that Dave must go through one session first. At the session, he meets a diverse group of characters with assorted mental issues. During the session, he loses his temper more than once, mainly due to Buddy's facetious attempts to get Dave to open up to the group. After the session, Buddy says that he wants to extend Dave's therapy because of the combative behavior he just showed. He begins by assigning him to an "Anger Ally", Chuck (John Turturro), an excitable Grenada invasion veteran with a penchant for violence and profanity. That night, they go to a bar, where Chuck picks a fight with two men (one of whom is blind). The confrontation escalates into a huge brawl and Dave is viciously attacked by the blind man with his cane. Attempting to wrest it away, Dave accidentally strikes a waitress in the face. ...........(continues.. but dont want to spoil it)
This was a frustrating funny movie... Jack Nicholson is a terrific actor....and so is Adam Sandler... I give this movie 8/10
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:16 pm
i totally loved that movie a old school Award winning actor and one of the best comedians put togethe rin a movie the movie turned out to be so f******* AWESOME ... loved every bit of the movie especially where he kicks the Monk Bullies @$$... the movie was so awesome that it was also remade by bolywood ...
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:49 pm
I feel pretty, oh so pretty... this is a darn good movie!
I like Marisa Tomei a lot though her character turns out to be kind of sneaky!
Highlight if you've already seen the movie:
She totally manipulates him into proposing! The whole ordeal was all a way for her to TRAP him. That's messed up.
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:01 pm
I have heard that line from "Analyze That" and I agree, it was funny as hell when I imagine Robert De Niro singing that for one scene while Billy Crystal was the physchrist for the (former) Mafia member.
The other details is a bit skecty for me, since I haven't seen Analyze This first.
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