It's fun spotting stars under cakes of make-up and the panache, great supporting cast and good-natured, old-fashioned feel make for a better movie than you remember.
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01/01/00
Dick Tracy (1990)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:24
Rotten:12
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Dick Tracy is stylish, unique, and an undeniable technical triumph, but it ultimately struggles to rise above its two-dimensional artificiality.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Warren Beatty directs and stars in this lavish adaptation of Chester Gould's famous comic strip. Against a stylized and solid color backdrop of 1930s Chicago, straight-laced, square-jawed,... [More]
Reviews for Dick Tracy
Top CriticA spectacular movie whose technical achievements -- notably the sharp editing -- will surely provide a gauge by which subsequent comic strip films are judged.
01/26/06
Top CriticSummer hasn't officially arrived yet, but it's unlikely to offer a big-budget commercial movie as thoroughly entertaining as this stylish real-life cartoon.
05/20/03
Top CriticThis is a movie in which every frame contains some kind of artificial effect. An entire world has been built here, away from the daylight and the realism of ordinary city streets.
01/01/00
Top CriticOn the whole Dick Tracy is a lot of fun, and fans of the offbeat may embrace it as a unique film amid a sea of movies that seem cloned from each other.
01/01/00
Dick Tracy is Batman in a fedora -- a much-ballyhooed cartoon noir that's as skimpy on substance as it is burgeoning with jujube-colored, jutt-jawed style.
01/01/00
The movie may lack unified conception, but it's supremely entertaining due to sumptuous production, lavish imagery and opulent costumes, and some terrific cameo appearances, such as Al Pacino.
03/23/09
Makes me mad just thinking about it.
01/01/00
This has an appealing two-dimensional comic-book look, but lacks the vision to go with it, not to mention an interesting hero or a feeling for action.
04/18/07
This is a unique movie experience, well conceived and executed.
03/16/03
No other movie ever made looks like this. ...But the design doesn't overwhelm the actors. Director Beatty knows how to bring out the brightest in his cast...
08/05/03
Tracy is Tinseltown's annual celebration of everything that's wrong with itself: the hype, the agent-negotiated star system, the Hollywood 'fun' assembly-line method of copy-cat mediocrity, etc.
01/01/00
For all its superficial pleasures, Dick Tracy ultimately flounders because it provides an audience with nothing to take home and dream about.
05/12/01
In sheer visual terms, this is the most convincing of the comic book movies that have been popular for the last decade or so.
04/18/07
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04/23/09
Top Criticcolorful fune attuned to the spirit of the comic strip; Pacino is lots of fun.
08/20/02
Saved from sheer mediocrity by Al Pacino
07/30/02
Lame and tedious comic book film. Try THE SHADOW or THE ROCKETEER instead.
03/19/03
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July 20, 2006:
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