The Dick Tracy Show: The Complete Animated Crime Series
Dick Tracy DVDs
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Tracy's Animated Crew, September 3, 2006
Reviewer: Bennet Pomerantz "Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD" (Seabrook,
Maryland) - See all my reviews
Chet Gould's classic comic strip Dick Tracy got a make over in the
1961 animated cartoon series.
Dick Tracy was the point man of this cartoon series. He assigned
cases to his junior detective/comic sidekicks Joe Jitsu (a karate
Charlie Chan wannabe) and Go-go Gomez (a speedy quick Mexican
detective). Both sidekicksa are voiced by Mel Blanc (the voice of
Bugs Bunny). These junior detectives combat cases with classic
rogues' gallery of Tracy's villains like Flattop, Itchy, Mumbles,
Prune face, etc.
These so-called sidekicks were so much stereotypes. However this was
theideal of most 1960's animation and cartoons. The aninmated
stereotypes were normal for TV at that time
The animation is good and crisply done for 1960 TV animation, unlike
the 1960's Marvel moving pictures or filmation stuff with DC heroes
(with Superman, Batman ,etc). It is fair in animated standards, not
just lips moving like Clutch Cargo. It was UPI Studios who also did
Mr Magoo cartoons, so there was a sense of quality to it. In my
opinion, It fared better than most of today's stuff tv animation has
to offer other than Hanna Barbara animation , which to me was and is
the gold standard of cartoon excellence. I think Ed, Edd and Eddie
for an example of the worse of today's animated stuff. This DVD has
no extra features, just good clean family fun. It is worth getting
for a keepsake of great 1960's animation.
However if you want good animated TV Tracy adventures, I am holding
out and waiting for TV Funnies with eight minute Tracy Episodes
(which are unavailable for DVD at this time). Until then, this will
have to do for my TRACY fix.
Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD
