Last night I went and saw “Dan In Real Life.” It’s a total feel-good, warm your heart, chick-flick kind of movie, and it was my idea to see it.

It’s about a man (Steve Carell) who writes a family advice column for the newspaper, but he can’t control his own family – he is a widower with three daughters. Dan and his girls head to grandpa and grandmas to visit with aunts, uncles, cousins, and any number of other family members. Dan meets a girl at the book store and he falls in love. Turns out, though, that the girl is his brother’s new girlfriend. Hilarity ensues.

I don’t know what about the movie appealed to me before Molly and I saw it yesterday. Maybe it was the fact that it was a family comedy that actually seemed nice, or maybe it was just that I really like Steve Carell on “The Office,” or maybe it was the fact that I have a tremendous soft spot for cheesy movies of this ilk (a soft spot that begins with “You’ve Got Mail” and knows no bounds). Whatever the reason, I’m glad I went.

It certainly wasn’t the best movie I’ve ever seen, but it was good enough for a Monday night.

I’m sure you can guess the ending – he ends up with the girl and reconciles with his family. While I knew it was coming before I even stepped in the theater, the ending did seem a bit forced. Unfortunately, it fell right in line with what I came to expect from the movie family.

Throughout the course of the show, the siblings and their offspring played two-hand touch football, held an annual family talent show, and did step aerobics together at a seaside cabin. In other words, this isn’t a real family. It’s more like the kind of family you might see in a commercial for jeans or Christmas ornaments.

All in all, though, I’d say it’s a good date movie or something to watch when it inevitably gets overplayed on TBS.