What can I say about Dan in Real Life? Heartwarming.
I’m not a professional movie critic, but to me, Dan in Real Life is simply a heartwarming, brilliantly written movie of a widower, doing his best to raise three daughters while struggling with his suppressed desire to do something for himself.
I, myself, have never been in this situation, so take my “brilliantly written” with a grain of salt, but for me, it was a pinwheel of emotion. I found myself circling the range of sentiment, from happiness to sadness, to discomfort and back to happiness.
The overall plot-line was superb, but, to be critical, I felt the individual characters often behaved irrationally. But as we all know, individuals are irrational. Maybe I’m too used to seeing caricatures in movies instead of dynamic, realistic, sentient being.
f you are looking for a barrel full of laughs, look elsewhere. If you’re looking for American Beauty meets Along Came Poly, Dan in Real Life is for you.
