Maika, The Vietnamese ET, Orbits To The US
Well Go USA Entertainment has announced they’re bringing the Vietnamese family film Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy to the US via digital distibution. The movie will be offered in English dub form starting next week. Maika is about a young boy who’s going through some rough patches in life: his mother is dead of an unspecified illness and his father just moved him to a new neighborhood where he has no friends. So he’s pleased as punch to discover a crashed spaceship and a purple-haired girl emerging from it. Though Maika has trouble adapting to Earthling culture, she becomes a fast replacement for his lack of social interactions and missing maternal figure. This whole setup obviously sounds familiar, like an off-brand variant of a classic movie…it doesn’t help that Maika’s ultimate goal is to find a way to contact her home planet and get a ride back. It’s common for foreign countries to create localized knockoffs of American hits (just like it’s common for America to do the same…”The