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Bright colors, Tommy guns, funny-looking criminals, and retro clothing are about all this shockingly bad paean to the Dick Tracy character and comic strips has to offer. Director-star Beatty, lucky to have his yellow hat and trench coat (for without them he'd have no personality at all), takes on Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice, a mob boss who wants to take over the city by yelling louder and more often than anyone else. Tedious, to say the least. Co-starring Madonna as sultry singer Breathless Mahoney and Glenne Headly as Tess Trueheart, the object of Tracy's passionless devotion. Young Charlie Korsmo plays the obligatory kid, a street urchin who talks about "dames" and wants to be just like Dick. With scads of other big name or well-known actors in supporting roles and a number of instantly forgettable Stephen Sondheim songs.
Bright colors, Tommy guns, funny-looking criminals, and retro clothing are about all this shockingly bad paean to the Dick Tracy character and comic strips has to offer. Director-star Beatty, lucky to have his yellow hat and trench coat (for without them he'd have no personality at all), takes on Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice, a mob boss who wants to take over the city by yelling louder and more often than anyone else. Tedious, to say the least. Co-starring Madonna as sultry singer Breathless Mahoney and Glenne Headly as Tess Trueheart, the object of Tracy's passionless devotion. Young Charlie Korsmo plays the obligatory kid, a street urchin who talks about "dames" and wants to be just like Dick. With scads of other big name or well-known actors in supporting roles and a number of instantly forgettable Stephen Sondheim songs.
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