Basically this takes the worst ideas from Men In Black, Inner Space & Honey, I Shrunk The Kids then throws in Eddie Murphy who is very off form with an extremely poor script but some killer special effects. It's not a bad film, it was just released at totally the wrong time going up against movies like Hancock which is a very similar idea but just as bad a movie.
Ok, we're thrown into the movie very quickly but it jumps the shark just as quickly. If Dave can self repair within seconds after falling through the atmosphere why can't he self repair in seconds after getting hit by a car? Was that Avril Lavigne at the Apple store sitting at the counter in a cameo?
Eddie Murphy plays Dave, a spaceship that crash lands on Earth looking for a missing artifact from their planet. The ship is inhabited by tiny lifeforms who have come for a sphere which they hope to use in Earths ocean to extract salt which their planet needs. Over the course of the movie the people inside Dave learn more about Earth, its people & their habits.
The crew of Dave are changed by their time on Earth but its an idea that's been used many times & isn't improved open here at all. Dave's crew do eventually decide not to use the device to take Earths salt from the sea (after being hijacked by the ships 2nd in command who grew weary & angry of the crew having changed & been influenced by their time on Earth). The film isn't great & it is left far too open & didn't do a good enough job of covering the ideas it was addressing. It's a harmless enough movie & can be enjoyed if the brain is disengaged.
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