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Editorial Review:
A flawed but stylish adaptation of the Chester Gould comic strip by director Warren Beatty, who also stars in the title role. The minimalist plot involves a battalion of baddies who confront the intrepid detective in a series of strung-together vignettes. Al Pacino is a comedic if overblown standout as Big Boy Caprice, and Madonna simply smolders as aggressive blonde bombshell Breathless Mahoney. It matters not that the plot is Spartan, as this dazzling eye candy is much enhanced by Stephen Sondheim's songs, including the Academy Award-winning ditty, "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)." Beatty took his cue from the source material and concentrated on the relationships between these people, whether strained, romantic, or hateful. The performances are subtle and more amusing than you would expect from such a visually bold picture. Shot in bright, primary colors, this also won Oscars for Best Art/Set Direction and Makeup (for those inventively hideous criminals). Watch for well-known names, such as Dustin Hoffman and Dick Van Dyke, in cameo appearances and supporting roles. --Rochelle O'Gorman

Dick Tracy [Region 2] Reviews:
The Last of its Kind
2009-11-14 - This movie is like a violent combination of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Toys. I think Disney had something to do with its production from all that stuff I saw at Disney MGM Studios Themepark back in the early 90's, but I just can't imagine Disney being involved with anything this violent. Not even five minutes into the movie, and we see a bunch of mobsters gunned down.

While most of the movie's features are quite average, the visuals are so incredible that I feel the need to rate the movie outstanding as a whole. From set design, to costumes, to make-up, it is one of the most artistic or maybe even the most artistic big budget movie I've seen. Everything is in bright wonderful colors, even ordinary factory machinery.

This is probably one of the last visually stunning movies to be made before the whole CGI computer special effects era. Jurassic Park came out three years later, and it seems like every big blockbuster afterward was absolutely saturated with computer special effects. Dick Tracy might very well represent the pinnacle of movie visuals without these effects. I doubt you'll ever see another movie like it in the future.

"Calling Dick Tracy! Calling Dick Tracy!"
2009-10-20 - Who would have thought that they could take the original Dick Tracy comics and faithfully turn it into a full-length movie? It's a fun movie, with some outstanding performances from an all-star cast. Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Paul Sorvino, James Caan, William Forsythe, and more. Many of them have excessive make-up in order for them to look exactly like the characters in the comics. Pacino is probably the only one that does not look like the original character ("Big Boy" Caprice), since he created the design himself! But the actors and the characters that they portray aren't the only good things in this movie. We also have some stunning set designs, provocative cinematography, a near-perfect score from Danny Elfman, and some pretty dark humor. Although it's not as epic as the original Batman by Tim Burton, it still is a fun and beautiful film. Kudos to Beatty and everyone else involved in the film.

Waste of time and $
2009-09-29 - This movie began well, with imaginative settings, colors, and faces, but soon I was wishing it was over. The plot is like mashed potatoes--a mushy blob, and the characters have very little depth.
Madonna did a great job with the songs, although I don't particularly care to see her cleavage.
There is violence, including machine gun shootouts, men being shot point-blank, and a man buried alive in cement as he's dropped into the river. I don't recall any bad language.
Recommended: National Treasure

Best Gangster Movie of All time.....ok maybe not, but hella awesome nonetheless.
2009-09-17 - I was pretty excited to find this movie on DVD. I was even more excited to find it under ten bucks. It arrived quickly, in pristine condition and played flawlessly.

Al Pacino rocks!

FLAT TOP
2009-06-16 - Like an earlier reviewer so cleverly said, the less you know about the strip, the more you'll enjoy the film!

"Dick Tracy" is not a movie about the strip, but about the memories it evokes. Unfortunately, you'll have to be eighty years old to have those! (the Tracy I recall was a boring TV cartoon that flied around in a trashcan). And chances are even so your memory will trick you, for the strip itself was anything BUT "nice clean fun".

A failed masterpiece that -literally- ended up in the moon, "Dick Tracy" was in its heyday a cartoonist's personal crusade against organized crime. Outraged by the murder of fellow Chicago journalist Jake Lingle (who turned out to be corrupt), cartoonist Chester Gould created Tracy as his way of exposing criminals for what they were, and what should be done with them. For him, they were the scum of the earth: human souls of such deformity, it even reflected on their features. Thus there was no joke on The Brow's brow, or on Flattop's flat top. These guys were not ugly villains, but true human monsters.

Confident of its Law & Order moral framework, the strip had no qualms about depicting sordid situations (sons murdering their parents, lovers quarrels with knives, villains getting impaled, victims beheaded, teenagers drowned, etc.), much to the delight of its millions of young readers. Today,"political correctness" would make such a comic strip unthinkable, but back then no one thought of it that way. People saw it as a simple Good vs. Evil moral story, where bad guys are ugly and good guys always win. "Nice clean fun".

And that's just what appears in the movie. A bland and predictable story, sugarcoated in eye candy. It's all make believe visual nostalgia in bright colors and retro cars. Lots of fedoras, spats, tommy-guns and badges, in a fantasy 1930's American city full of newsboys wearing caps, sodajerks in bowties, Chinamen with pigtails, and elevated trains against the sunset. Shanties swing when hosting fistfights, boilers tremble before they explode, calligraphy gets written with bullets, and entire gangs fly through the air if they face Tracy up front. To top it all, there's an all star cast in outlandish makeup, several catchy Stephen Sondheim songs, and even a Madonna nipple if you look for it. Enjoy!

P.S.: To most older people, Ralph Byrd was THE Dick Tracy of the movies. Actually, he sucked! Warren Beatty does an acceptable performance here, but nothing to write home about. Me, I always thought Robert Stack had Dick Tracy in mind when he portrayed Eliot Ness. "The Untouchables" itself is closer to the spirit of the Tracy comic strip than this movie is. As for looks, Victor Mature would have made the ideal silver screen Tracy. Alas, he never played the part.