
All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. But there's something pretty rotten going on in town, with someone pretty rotten behind it, and Tracy has his hands full with the likes of villain Big Boy Caprice and with the almost irresistible Breathless Mahoney.... (Full plot summary below)
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All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. But there's something pretty rotten going on in town, with someone pretty rotten behind it, and Tracy has his hands full with the likes of villain Big Boy Caprice and with the almost irresistible Breathless Mahoney.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWarren Beatty's production of Dick Tracy approaches the material with the same fetishistic glee I felt when I was reading the strip. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxLess a comic book movie than a comic strip movie, reveling in the primary colors of the Sunday morning paper. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenDick Tracy is a class act: simple, stylish, sophisticated, sweet. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordDick Tracy has pop-art elements, imaginatively conceived montages, and a riff on crime-as-business that’s as pointed as the Godfather movies, if more family-friendly. |
| New TimesLuke Y. ThompsonA ground-breaking and striking comic-based movie, though the villains are too easily vanquished |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfDick Tracy is skillfully mounted, generating an optical wonderland for the viewer, with all sorts of details and photographic vibrancy to study when the film takes off on the wings of a tune. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonSurprisingly sweet and good-natured, Dick Tracy is a highly stylized piece of fluff that's easier to digest than the ponderous pretensions of the equally over-hyped Batman. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelIt's nowhere near the best movie of its type, but it's a frequently audacious, stunningly beautiful ride through a four-color universe. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonSo deliberately, carefully shallow, so conceptually audacious; and yes, so unearthly beautiful in every last frame. |
| IGNJeremy ConradDick Tracy succeeded in translating a classic comic almost perfectly to the screen. Some people may be turned off with Madonna being in the film, but if you can look past that, you'd find one of the best comic-to-film adaptations ever. |