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I rewatched it a few years back after being obsessed with it as a kid. What really struck me was just how dry the movie was overall. To draw comparisons to the other prominent cartoon / comic noir crime flick of that era, Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out two years earlier and was just oozing with humor and charm from top to bottom; meanwhile, Dick Tracy has a couple of gags, Al Pacino hammed it up a bit, and plenty of the characters certainly looked funny, but overall it played things just a little too straight and seriously, which really clashed with the over-the-top visuals and deliberately cartoonish character designs.

Put that property in the hands of someone like James Gunn nowadays and it'd be a smash hit, but apparently Warren Beatty is sitting on the rights until he dies, so...*shrugs*