“Footloose” Takes on the “Thing” This Weekend [VIDEO]

"Footloose" (PG-13)
The remake stars Julianne Hough from "Dancing with the Stars", Dennis Quaid as her dance-hating father, and an unknown kid named Kenny Wormald as Ren MacCormack, the character immortalized by Kevin Bacon in the 1984 original. Sadly, Kevin turned down a cameo, because he didn't want to be a distraction. (I think they blew it doing a remake without Kevin Bacon. They should have cast him as the dance-hating dad. How awesome would that have been?) As for the music, Blake Shelton sings the title track, and you get a pretty good feel for the dancing in the video for it. Obviously Kenny Loggins did the original "Footloose" song and he was kind enough to give Blake's version his seal of approval.

"The Thing" (R)
Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays a scientist recruited by a Norwegian team that discovers a creature buried in the Antarctic. But once they free it from the ice, it starts killing them off, and passing itself off as human by imitating each of its victims. It's actually a prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 classic of the same name, which starred Kurt Russell as a badass at an American research station in the Antarctic. That one opened with a chopper crew trying to kill a dog that wasn't what it seemed. The new movie's set a few days before that and the helicopter pilots for the Norwegians are played by Joel Edgerton from the MMA movie "Warrior", and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, a.k.a. Mr. Eko from "Lost". "NCIS Los Angeles" fans will also get a kick out of seeing Eric Christian Olsen in it as a research assistant. He plays Deeks on the show.

"The Big Year" (PG)
A comedy with Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson as three rivals who spend a year traveling and competing in a bird-watching competition. The rest of the cast includes Rashida Jones, Brian Dennehy, and Anjelica Houston.

"Texas Killing Fields" (R) (Limited)
Sam Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are detectives trying to stop a serial killer who dumps his victims' bodies in a local marsh. Chloe Moretz from "Kick-Ass" and the vampire flick "Let Me In" is the girl they're trying to save from being his next victim.

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