Meet Dave - 2008

A funny comedy, silly but funny enough :-) A crew of very little aliens comes to Earth in a spaceship shaped like a human body, resembling their captain: Eddie Murphy. They're here to retrieve an object that will help them get the salt their planet needs to survive by taking it away from our oceans. They're just arrived when a car bumps into it and Gina (Elizabeth Banks) is worried she might have killed him, and then that he might sue her, so she invites him home. When asked his name, Number 3 (Gabrielle Union) of the crew researched the most popular names on Earth and came out with Ming Chan, which surprises Gina who had thought perhaps Dave might have suited him best so he says he's Dave Ming Chan...
Her son Josh had found the orb Dave was looking for so "they" stick to him until they can find it back. There are all sorts of scenes about Dave not knowing what love is, or what a handshake is, or how to put new clothes on (which is resolved by not telling us: he went to the counter with a sweater he could not put on, after a big scene that clearly proved it to everyone, but the next scene he had normal trousers with a normal shirt and jacket on, who knows how he managed that... probably he made those clothes appear on the ship in some way, since afterwards he'll be able to bring back his original white suit... then why did he try to put on the sweater in the first place? Well, it was a funny scene, although maybe a bit too long)
Finally found the orb, the captain still wants to spend time with Gina and Josh to thank them for their help, but he gets arrested by a cop convinced he's an alien (!). His strange behavior brings Number 2 to mutiny and take command, and he starts firing around at the police station, then goes to throw the orb in the water. Number 3 at first agreed to the mutiny because she was furiously jealous of her beloved captain and Gina, then she helps him regain control of the ship , when they manage to get back on board after being thrown out by Number 2.
They retrieve the orb and save Earth, but are out of energy for the second time. The first time the ship was "revived" by a doctor, and now it was Josh using an electric gun on him, or however it's called, so they have energy again to fly home. Humans come with helicopters and ropes, but the whole crew gets inside one shoe of the big ship and they head to safety.
Gabrielle Union is incredibly pretty and has great hair.
Many scenes are full of silly nonsense, but the right kind for the right movie, funny enough.
There's the obvious "Earth-is-not-so-bad" discovery because apparently these aliens know nothing about music, kisses, dance, love, drinks and generally fun, and become quite fond of New York.
The scene where he wins the competition for who eats more hot-dogs is gross and not my favourite. It was fun when he "cleaned the table" by throwing it all on the floor, or when he retrieved his orb from the little bully by holding him upside down :lol:
There was a scene when Number 3 told him that there is something humans must watch once a year, and it was "it's a wonderful life" :-D and after watching it they were both so touched, which is understandable :-) I love that movie too, and towards the end of the film, when the commander and number 3 are stranded in big New York, trying to catch the spaceship again, he tells her he should have lazooed the moon for her a long time ago :-) that was actually the only nice thing about their love story, otherwise quite boring and predictable. I mean, she was funny with her unreasonable jealousy, but all his speeches about feelings were too long and boring, they were the thing I liked less.