Dick Tracy

Episode 213: Dick Tracy (1990)

Theme: Comic Strip Movies Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis paint the town seven shades of Crayola as they dive into Dick Tracy — the comic-strip-noir fever dream that blends The Warriors × The Usual Suspects × Batman × Who Framed Roger Rabbit into one loud, glossy, prosthetic-heavy gangster opera. It’s pulp, it’s neon, it’s Warren Beatty punching dudes so hard they fly off screen.

The Movie Marriage: The Warriors × The Usual Suspects × Batman × an eight-pack of Crayolas

The hosts break down:

• Dick Tracy — square-jawed supercop, wearer of a thousand yellow hats, and a man whose relationship priorities are very… let’s just say “work forward.”
• Big Boy Caprice — Al Pacino unleashed, unhinged, unregulated, and approximately 300% too loud for any single scene.
• Breathless Mahoney — nightclub singer, seductress, plot device, and owner of the most determined kiss in comic-strip cinema.
• The Rogues’ Gallery — Mumbles, Flattop, Pruneface, Lips Manlis, Numbers, 88 Keys… basically the Garbage Pail Kids in fedoras.
• The Kid — professional tag-along, future detective, and witness to way too many murders for a PG movie.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 75 Montages
Curtis — 88 Keys