Parents guide

The scene after Big Boy is rehearsing with the dancers at his new club. Dick Tracey goes into Madonna's dressing room. She is first standing in the shadows but you can clearly see her bare breasts. Then she walks into the light and you can see them even more clearly. The whole scene lasts about thirty seconds. Madonna also uses innuendo on Tracy but it's nothing vulgar.

A woman wears revealing clothing and acts seductive through most of the movie. In one particular scene she wears only panties and a mesh gown which slightly cover her breasts which are visible, this scene is fairly short though. Some brief kisses.

in the background of the interrogation room there is a water cooler in shape of a polar bear, and the nozzle of the cooler is located on the "private area" of a male polar bear, clearly for a comical result

A reference on a news broadcast to an old man's arms being broken by hoods

several shooting scenes; all completely bloodless.

One gangster is killed by a variant of the cement overshoe gangster murder method cliche called "The Bath," where he is immersed in cement and dropped into the river to drown. Later, Tracy's police comrade "Bug" Bradley is threatened with the same method to lure Tracy to be killed.

One dissenting gangster from Big Boy's united mob proposition is murdered with a car bomb to intimidate the others into cooperating.

Some fist fighting(very stylized).

A man falls to his death.

A gangster lightly slaps a girl.

A basement is blown up but with no fatalities.

One use of "hell."

One exclamation of "Jesus"

Several characters are seen smoking and/or drinking, periodically.

Pretty bold/adventurous movie.

Many of the criminals have very grotesque appearances which could frighten kids.

Big Boy attempts to have Tracy killed by having his goons tie to a chair in an boiler room, and then damage the furnace to have it overload and explode. The Kid manages to break in and is barely able to free the detective for them to both flee the building before the explosion.