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Article: `Dan' is aggravating and not very funny.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2007
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Byline: Jim Keogh
COLUMN: Movie Review
"Dan in Real Life'' has scarcely a real moment in it. It struggles and strains to find humor and pathos in the story of a widower with three daughters who falls in love with his brother's girlfriend. But the film comes off as so sitcom-phony you've got to wonder if the filmmakers ever have seen a true-life family, never mind been a part of one.
The movie does one thing right. It proves that Steve Carell can play a character with some awareness of the world around him, a 180-degree turn from the shallow, painfully oblivious office manager Michael he plays on "The Office.'' You can watch "Dan in Real Life'' ...