REVIEW: Dan In Real Life

Our next review is of the movie Dan In Real Life starring Steve Carell of The Office fame. It's your typical "love-triangle-romantic-entanglement" story with a few twists. Watch Trailer.

WIFEY'S REVIEW

This movie was a good one. It was hard to take Steve Carell serious, for all you who know him in The Office. It takes place when Dan Burns finds himself in a book store looking for some kind of book when a woman walks by and asks him for help. He takes one look at her and falls head over heels for her.

Seeing that Dan is a single father of 3 girls ever since his wife died leaving him to raise these young ladies on his own with no female help there's a strong emotional element to this film.

Dan takes Marie out to get coffee and it seems as though they hit it off just perfect and all of a sudden she gets a phone call and has to go. They exchange numbers and go there separate ways.

Dan goes to a family function at this parent's house and comes to find out that his brother was bringing his new girlfriend to dinner. Low and behold it's Marie! Now Dan has to bring himself to forget her seeing she's with his brother.

It's a very funny way how they try not to know each other, but the odds keeping bringing them closer and closer to one another until the inevitable completely hooks them in.

They finally have to tell everyone that they are falling for each other and in doing so they break the other brother's heart. It all works out in the end (how you'll have to see for yourself!). This movie is a must see in my book.

I give it 3 Ben & Jerry's out of 5.


HUBBY'S REVIEW

Before I get started with my review I just want everyone to know that I gave Wifey some lip service tonight and told her that her reviews need to get back to telling what she liked and didn't like - more analyzing from her end instead of just re-telling the story because that's what worked so well for her in the beginning.

I'm sure she just loves me airing our dirty laundry like this in public!

I'll start my review by saying that I liked that Steve Carell took a bit of a departure from his wacky roles we usually see him in. There was a serious and endearing side to him in this movie that the viewer instantly connects with.

It's your typical "forbidden love" type of story except this one felt much more mature if that makes any sense. These were adults dealing with a love-at-first-sight circumstance, but once they realized that pursuing that love would break someone else's heart they knew that they had to do the right thing as you'd like to think that mature adults would do in their case.

It was also uncomfortable to watch at times. I mean, the only thing more uncomfortable than watching Steve Carell's character fall in love with his brother's girlfriend was if it was his brother's wife (his sister-in-law). Wait, scratch that! I thought of something more uncomfortable! His character falling in love with his mom's best friend or his "aunt" from his youth or, wait, how about his step-sister or something? Geesh!

Despite that fact, it was quite a heart-warming film actually and he played his role perfectly showing a lot of range and depth as an actor.

I too will give it 3 Ben & Jerry's out of 5 making the official Our Movie Date rating for this film a 3.