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For those of you who thought "Batman & Robin" was a campy film, you ain't seen nothing yet! Warren Beatty stars & directs this ultra campy adaptation of legendary comic crime fighter Dick Tracy! The makeup & costumes are over the top as are the cars & even the building! Everything is done in flashy bright colors & yeah that goes for the buildings too! BUT, if you can overlook the gaudy sets & costumes, you will find a gritty crime story played out very tongue in cheek! Beatty is as mentioned Dick Tracy, a cop who takes on mob boss Big Boy Caprice, played by Al Pacino & is as far away from Michael Corleone as you can get! Along the way, Tracy must deal with his long time girlfriend Tess Trueheart(Glenne Headly), a Nightclub Siren with the hots for him: Breathless Mahoney(Madonna), a crooked DA out to foil him(Dick VanDyke) & a cantankerous orphan. For a campy thriller, this movie has unbelievable star power! Besides those already mentioned, this film stars Dustin Hoffman, James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Catherine O'Hara, William Forsythe, Charles Durning, Paul Sorvino, Marshall Bell, Kathy Bates, Colm Meaney, Michael J. Pollard & Mary Woronov. The biggest problem here is that most of the cast you will hardly recognize if at all! The costumes are padded, the makeup is caked on, features are accented & hair doos are wild! You can watch this movie a few times & still never figure out who everyone is! This film offers up a lot of action & thrills + a few heartwarming moments, but there is also a decent amount of tongue in cheek humor! Pacino's dance routine is not to be missed! Except for some of the violence, there is really nothing from prohibiting younger viewers from watching this film as there is really no sexual situations, besides Madonna falling out of her costumes(& that is a surprise how?) & no really off color language. Beatty keeps it pretty clean!Read full review
The concept was very original: Take a graphic novel/comic strip and using camp and exaggerated dialogue make a live action movie out of it. Madonna was miscasted (and could not sing well). Warren Beatty is a good actor but should not have put himself in movie where he did not fit. Such is the privilege of a producer/director putting themselves into their own movie. It did not have the sophistication of Sin City nor the surreal effects and cinematography. Supporting cast saved the bad actors. Very entertaining.
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What can you say about this 1990's cult classic hit? A bombshell at the box office but this has to be one of the best films of that year. Al Pachino was nominated for best supporting actor, although he lost. But that just goes to show how great this movie was. I was 12 years old when it came to the theater and I fell in love with it. My parents even tried to buy a copy for me when it came to VHS, but it was $100.00!!! Movies back then weren't cheap. Now I can enjoy a brand new DVD from ebay for less than ten dollars! My have times have changed. I have not received it yet, but my girl friend cant wait to watch it with me (she does not think this movie should have been made). But none the less, if you like cheesy actors playing cheesy comic book heroes and villains, then this is for you.Read full review
Thank you, this dvd came fast and as described I enjoy watching this movie. Great cast.
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Warren Beatty did a very good job of putting Dick Tracy into a movie, I feel doing it any other way would pay justice to the series of the books that came put many years ago. Well done
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