Thursday, March 13, 2008

DAN IN REAL LIFE

You made a poop joke -- so clever!

Real life is great. Unfortunately movies are made because real life is rarely as compelling as fiction. In real life, Dan is appealingly flawed, but so is the script - sans appeal. There is a nice build in the beginning with Dan and his daughters, but the film gets lost straddling the line between themes of 1) recovering from loss, 2)dealing with family and 3)being a romantic comedy. As we all know, when you mix anything with romantic comedy you get drivel. In this case the chemistry between Stevio and Juliette is like warm milk aftertaste. Dan would probably have been an interesting character if he only had to carry a single story.

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