To be fair, this Thing prequel (hereafter The Thing - quel), which imagines the happenings at the Norwegian camp prior to the
titular alien finding Wilford Brimley and Kurt Russell's beard, isn't nearly as boring and / or offensive as a senate debate, a naval blockade enacted by space - Japs, and a hike in the desert surrounded by
evil Jews and Arabs in the company of a Jamaican Stepin Fetchit.