Are you Sreve Jobs?.....

Rating: 7/10 (2 February 2012)

Cal and Emily have been married for over 20 years. But when Cal learns that Emily had an affair he moves out.
He then goes to a bar and whine about what happened. Jacob, a regular at the bar, upon hearing his woes, offers to help him By giving him a makeover and teaching him how to be a player.
It isn't long before he's picking up someone frequently. But eventually he realises he still loves Emily and wants to go back.
At the same time his son is nursing a crush on his baby sitter who doesn't feel the same way.
And even Jacob gets a new outlook when starts to feel something about a girl he tried to pick up earlier, but turns him down because she has a boyfriend...
Please do not expect Carrell to be in 'Get Smart' mode here. 'Dan In Real Life' is more apt for this nice, sometimes funny insight into paranoid males.
On one hand we have Carrell, freshly dumped and licking his wounds, and then we have Gosling, the player who has everything, apart from the ability to love, or be loved.
In the soulless world of picking up strangers, these two people meet and change each others lives, and become (fo a while) mirror opposites.
For once, it's a comedy without toilet humour, instead focusing on the characters and their feelings.
The cast are great, with some good performance from all concerned, and the narration is very easy to follow, despite the multitude of sub-plots.
It's all nice stuff, sometimes a little too nice, but there is always that delicious sinister side that rears it's head every now and again and makes the film laugh out loud funny.
Kudos to Gosling for putting in yet another amazing performance.