Dan in Real Life

Starring: Steve Carell, that girl from CHOCOLAT, that lesbian lover of Ross's ex-wife in FRIENDS, and Dane Cook

Okay, I finally saw a movie that I didn't particularly like. The critics liked it. Wifey liked it and somehow managed to cry again. I was kind of irritated by it for some reason. And that's while dying laughing during a couple of parts.

DAN IN REAL LIFE is about this widower dad and his three daughters and their kooky, near-Mormon family (they play board games and have talent shows). Dan and the girls spend time with his fam, and on an innocent break-from-the-kids-drive to the library, he meets and falls for this wonderful girl...who actually ends up being his brother's (Dane Cook's) girlfriend.

And it's not just one way either. Supposedly, there's a "connection" there. But she, like most women, toys with him and stays alongside the bro even though she flirts with Dan out of sight from the fam. Why would a girl do that? Because she can. Power of the pu$$y. This drives Dan crazy as he gets blue balls.

The only time when the girl has problems with this "vibe" between them is when...SURPRISE!...Dan takes another hotter-than-her girl on a date and she feels replaced. Irreplaceable? To the left, to the left, everything you own in the box to the left...

So why didn't I like this movie? I'll tell you. First of all, I didn't think the girl was as wonderful and amazing as Dan, the bro, and the fam thought. They were all gaga over her. Especially Dan's kids. They tried to make her character the all-world traveling, well-versed in every topic Bohemian girl who could play football with the boys and shake her moneymaker while doing yoga. It didn't work for me. That girl from CHOCOLAT? Come on! Just 'cause she gave Johnny Depp a taste of her chocolate truffle?

Also, I didn't feel the chemistry between the two of them. Like I know what I'm talking about. Just my opinion. Dane Cook was funny when he was singing. Otherwise, he was kind of unfunny. Carell was his usual, dorky, funny self, but you didn't feel like he was a writer, which he was. The movie title is his newspaper column's title. He just seemed like he was hated on by his kids. How'd you like to be with three girls? Only in a hotel. Hrrr, hrrr, hrrr, hrrr!

I didn't like it. If you're a fan of Carell, this might be the movie. Otherwise, watch his other stuff. I give this movie two crusty, cobwebbed 40 YEAR OLD VIRGINs...