Favorite part of the film were the locations used, especially because a lot of them are familiar to me, since I live in the Chicago area. My pal & I kept elbowing each other when we spotted a location that we recognized (this also includes Crown Point, IN, Lockport, IL, Northwoods of WI). That, in itself, made the movie very real & brought those figures to life. This seemed to be a film that paid a lot of attention to the facts, & didn't glamorize them. I would have given this 5 stars, but I wish they had shown more about his upbringing & how Dillinger came to be the criminal he turned out to be later in life, & how the public came to treating him as sort of a "hero" figure, given the economic situation of the era.
We enjoyed this movie a lot. It was sweet, sad, funny, and very clever. The 3-D effects are not the gimmicky kind where things jump out at you from the screen, but this 3-D adds extra layers to the animation.