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Dick Tracy

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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,... 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, detective hero Dick Tracy battles gangster Big Boy Caprice -- and temptation in the form of blonde bombshell Breathless Mahoney. Dick's long-time girlfriend Tess Trueheart and a feisty street urchin are on hand to offer support. With songs by Stephen Sondheim, Madonna as Breathless Mahoney, and a vast array of cartoon villains -- Mumbles, Pruneface, Lips, Flattop -- brought to life by a glittering cast of stars. [More]

Starring: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Glenne Headly, Al Pacino

Starring: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Glenne Headly, Al Pacino, Charlie Korsmo, Mandy Patinkin, Dick Van Dyke, William Forsythe, Charles Durning, R.G. Armstrong, Estelle Parsons, Kathy Bates, James Caan, Michael J. Pollard, Dustin Hoffman

Director: Warren Beatty

Director: Warren Beatty

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Reviews for Dick Tracy

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05/13/03
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

Lame and tedious comic book film. Try THE SHADOW or THE ROCKETEER instead.

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03/19/03
Brian Mckay
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

This is a unique movie experience, well conceived and executed.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
03/16/03
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

No review available.

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03/05/03
Rebecca Murray
Rebecca Murray
About.com

No review available.

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02/28/03
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Less a comic book movie than a comic strip movie, reveling in the primary colors of the Sunday morning paper.

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10/03/02
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

No review available.

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09/16/02
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

colorful fune attuned to the spirit of the comic strip; Pacino is lots of fun.

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08/20/02
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

No review available.

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08/08/02
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Saved from sheer mediocrity by Al Pacino

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07/30/02
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

No review available.

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07/26/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

A colorful and mostly entertaining little experiment.

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07/25/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

For all its superficial pleasures, Dick Tracy ultimately flounders because it provides an audience with nothing to take home and dream about.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment 1 Comment
05/12/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

On 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.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment 1 Comment
01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post

Makes me mad just thinking about it.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment 1 Comment
01/01/00
Oz
Oz
eFilmCritic.com

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.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment 1 Comment
01/01/00
Rita Kempley
Rita Kempley
Washington Post

This 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.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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