Dan In Real Life is good, but nothing special. It's an entretaining costumbrist flick that has some highlights but at moments it's quite poor, meaning predictable and with disagreeable typicall American humour. I think it tries to find originality and to escape from that awful type of American comedies, and sometimes it reachs that level but sometimes it falls down again and fails. No matter how hard it tries, the plot screams American comedy, it's barely saved by a quite good screenplay and excellent performances.
Steve Carell is sweetly normal and geeky. I really think it overcomes his performance in The Fourty Year Old Virgin and it reaches the level of the one in Little Miss Sunshine. You sympathize enourmously with him and, despite his mistakes, he kind of grows in you. In one word: loveable geek.
No less can be expected from Juliette Binoche. She's one of my favourite actresses and I think her performance in this movie is great. She manages to portray a simple yet captivating woman who you kind of fall in love with at the beginning of the film and no matter how many mistakes she makes you never fall out of love with her.
The good (or bad...) thing about this movie is that it's simple. As simple as its characters, its storyline and its humour. The bad (or good...) thing is that it often tries to be avant garde or clever and it fails. I enjoyed it, but for my taste I think it needs to polish up a little more.
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