most successful comic book movie usually depend on have villain that be big than life and ready to jump off the screen and strangle you alive with a smile or a demented line or two of dialog . the tim burton batman have it and a do ( in an even more grotesque manner ) sin city . with dick tracy producer or director or star warren beatty pile on the villain until it become part of the framework . like a boisterous homage to 1930s gangster picture only this time meant for kid a oppose to the darker bonnie and clyde dick tracy be fill and joyfully and with archetype and bright and primary color and where the criminal carry tommy gun and be form on their face to shape their personality . villain like the stooge and shoulder and lip and the brow and mumble and the blank and pruneface and spud . chester gould give the name to his character that fit their profile and and give his hero a jaw that could cut glass . the film be a continuation of sight gag that be perfectly take seriously . if and at the time and movie like batman and ( underrated ) teenage mutant ninja turtle be dark depiction of reality within a comic book outline and dick tracy be more old school . it a story of cop and crook and or rather a cop and detective tracy a he try to bust big boy ( al pacino and in what be arguably his big performance to date and and in a sense the one that make sense for his grandiose style ) and but with no such luck . there also a little kid and call simply the kid ( charlie korsmo and who somehow bring more spunk to this little kid than would have be imagine ) and and tracy love interest in tess . and then there the nightclub wouldame ( madonna and who probably doesn not give any kind of great acting performance and but maybe that suit the role fine and and she sings excellently when call upon ) and who wont testify unless tracy admits feeling he doesn not have for her . then there convolute dealing with take tracy down and and a mysterious masked figure with a scraggly voice . meantime and a if do an impersonation of a howard hawk film in a splash of visual effect and big explosion and dick tracy add on the wink and nod comedy and the action like it syrup on a tall stack of pancake . it a wonder to look at this world and which be create in way that have a fascination to them that have they be do today would just be simply by proxy of computer ( i. e. sin city and which can be justifiably compare to beatty film ) . be drive through this world in great big shot and then thrust in the plot line and or whatever there be of it and in big editing montage with camera angle that seem to come out of those little tilted panel in the comic of old . i be almost remind of the cotton club during these sequence and a story and music and detail and and a few big punch and gun shot go a long way to reveal what need to be say and which and actually and isn not more than it need to . and there a heap load of catchy dialog from the script ( one of my favorite represent the enemy of my enemy be . my enemy and plus any of pacino reference to other figure in quote ) . revisit this after see it for the first time in the movie theater ( and only remember little bit ) and dick tracy be a hard boil fantasy to the fine degree . it fill with good cheer for the kid and and with some pretty good action square away without some of the more sinister intent of it cousin comic book movie ( i. e. pg 13 fare ) and and for the adult it throw back central do with panache and a solid feeling for the unsubtle . even dustin hoffman ham it up and and he barely say an audible word .