I've never seen the 1985 movie Girls Just Want To Have Fun, but now that I've bothered looking it up, it looks like I have to-- Helen Hunt, Sarah Jessica Parker and Shannen Doherty in starring roles, and a rumored cameo by Robert Downey Jr.!

Why would you remake a movie that serendipitously starred two future Oscar nominees and one fashion icon-to-be? Beats me, but Fox is trying it anyway, scheduling a remake of the very 80s movie with Michelle Morgan hired to rewrite the script. Variety says they'll be hanging on to the same plot about teenage girls who love to dance and want to be on the show Dance TV. On paper it very closely resembles the plot of Hairspray, minus the 60s setting and the fat acceptance and racial tension. I'm guessing that's mostly a coincidence, though, if only to not assume that John Waters somehow ripped this movie off.

The premise actually sounds pretty cute, and I like that they're keeping the girls dreaming of Dance TV rather than, say, American Idol. If the Jonas Brothers pop in for a cameo in this, though, that's where I draw the line.