Dan In Real Life

My overweight and illiterate roommate rented Dan In Real Life the other day, and I was mildly excited about it because I love watching Steve Carell when he's not acting like a Brick. It had been a while so I couldn't remember the previews and ergo could not remember the premise of the film. Leave it to say that I was delightfully surprised, and was overjoyed with the persistent awkwardness that movie seemed to revolve around. The premise of course being that Steve Carrel's character is a widower with 3 kids who meets a woman in a bookstore while at a family reunion, falls in love with her, and then finds out shes dating his younger brother, played by Dane Cook. I really liked Dane in this movie, he played his character well. Also, as an added bonus, the dad of the family is played by the dad from Fraiser! Yay, John Mahoney!

The movie was great, right up until the last like 8 minutes, at which point I lost all respect for it. The rest of the movie had been a delightfully slight departure for the norm on this type of movie, and then in the end they had to go and ruin it. THINGS DO NOT RECONCILE THAT EASILY.

Dan In Real Life gets 4 Beards.