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This is a forgettable but offbeat teenage film. The visual effect is certainly better than the first Carrie (1976). The flashback of Carrie 1 and the return of Amy Irving starring as Sue Snell again also help.

Apart from the film itself per se, having seen Carrie and Carrie 2, I can't stop thinking why the problem of kids bullying with each other continues to be a problem in schools. In fact, this problem is not only between school kids, but also between grown ups in society. What's wrong with our society? What happened in the film is no more worse than the real event 'Columbine High School Massacre' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre). When are we going to solve this problem?

Perhaps showing this film to kids will make them understand how bad if they treat their mates badly.

What 'will I ever learn'? Never judge a book by its cover, a film by its trailer, a story by the 'critics'. Well, some of them anyway.

The trailer to this movie did NOT appeal to me. Some of the critics trashed it. Even the box to the actual tape/DVD looked 'cookie-cutter' to the first Carrie. I hate redone classics, therefore, I avoided this movie like the plague for the longest time. Indeed, I ran the opposite direction when this movie came near me. Well, maybe thats going a bit far.

LOW AND BEHOLD!! Last night (7/5/2002) USA network showed this movie, and nothing else was on. I had a bottle of Jose Quervo on hand; just in case. I sat down and got ready to laugh at, tear apart and rag on this flick. After all, its my job as a film buff to see even the 'bad' films in order to better appreciate the 'good'.

I was utterly surprised by this film. There was a character played by Mena Suvari... a pleasant surprise to me- that I thought surely would be the 'new and improved Carrie'. Oops, now I've gone too far. ANYWAY! I actually enjoyed this film. I felt very bad for the character's treatment by others, as well as, herself.

That's all I'll say on the content of the movie since there may be those out there who've avoided this film like I did. DON'T!! This movie put me in my place on pre-judging films. I felt entertained and the piece was well-done. I can't think of anything wrong with this movie; right now. Perhaps, it was a bit on the teen-film stereotypical side, but I just really enjoyed watching this film. Thank you for your time o<;O) Skot

Following up the 1970s classic horror film Carrie with this offering, is like Ford following the Mustang with the Edsel. This film was horrendous in every detail. It would have been titled Beverly Hill 90210 meets Mystery Science Theater 3000, but both of those shows far exceed this tripe. This film was scarcely a horror film. I timed about 3 minutes of gore and 90 minutes of lame high school hazing and ritual. Wow, what a surprise, Carrie's weird friend commits suicide! Wow, Carrie misconstrues her love interests affections! Wow, the in-crowd sets up Carrie! Wow, the jocks have a sexual scoring contest! What this film needed was way more action and far less tired teen cliches. This film is totally unviewable.

I wasn't too excited to hear that there was going to be a sequel to Carrie, just because I knew that they would ruin everything about it. I love the original, and the studios can't make movies as great as they were back then. I saw it, and like I predicted it just wasn't great. It was quite disgraceful to the original, actually.

The main thing I don't like about it is how the new Carrie, or Rachel isn't really that evil or weird. That mystique and her quiet and shy demeanor is what made her so wonderful and such a great horror film star. Rachel, however, is not even that shy. She doesn't even take the insults she receives, she says her own comments back. She's just too normal to be a psychopathic killer with telekinetic powers! And since you don't feel that she is that evil, the killing scene just isn't that great.

Please, just rent the original Carrie. You will like it much better. Hollywood producers today shouln't be butchering the classics like this.

Admittedly, "The Rage: Carrie 2" can't equal the quality established by its predecessor. But it's better than I expected it to be. Portraying an outcast high school student (Emily Bergl) discovering that she has telekinetic powers - don't worry; it gets explained - and using them to get revenge on her tormentors, it mostly repeats everything from the original. But the good aspect comes from how they set up some scenes and shock you (I really liked the shattering ball). Finally, the party at the end just might make your blood freeze.

Overall, this is a movie worth seeing, if only once. Of course, you'll have to see the original first, so as to understand everything that happens in this one. Also starring Amy Irving and Mena Suvari (right before she played Kevin Spacey's sexual fantasy in "American Beauty").

Although not a masterpiece, the original "Carrie" from 1976 has held up over time because it had Brian De Palma behind it, a good director who understood kids' behavior and how they relate to one another (and also how adults try to relate to kids just to fit in for the moment). This trashy sequel does have Katt Shea directing (who did fairly good work with "Poison Ivy"), but gives her nothing to work with. It actually has the gall to try and connect the two films (here, Emily Bergl plays Carrie's half-sister!). Of course she is taunted and humiliated, and of course she pulls out all the stops. Lousy production, poor editing and--most especially--bad writing leaves Shea and an adequate cast eating dust. * from ****

Yes, you read that right.

Emily Bergl is this films greatest asset. She can actually act and looks sincere. The only problem is that she's far too good looking for the role. That may sound shallow, but throughout the movie, we're supposed to get the impression that she's "ugly" and because of that, she's an outcast. Contrast this to Sissy Spacek in the original who looked plain enough to carry out the role of "ugly duckling". It was only her talent that let Bergl carry (pun not intended) out the role convincingly.

The antoganists are unusually shallow, especially when presented against the more modern bad guys in horror films, at least where you can see the bad guy. Though at least one of the bad girls is convincing as Rachel's new friend.

Jason Landon does an amiable job as Rachel's boyfriend and lends a lot of credibility to the final scene which, I must say, is a refreshing change from the hand coming out of the ground scenes popularized by the original Carrie.

All in all, a refreshingly entertaining and, dare I say, well done show.

The long awaited sequel to Carrie? Anything is possible. The Rage: Carrie 2 was mostly the weirdest thing I've ever saw. Knowing what Carrie started and Rachel left off. It was fair enough to see one of the survivors of Carrie's wrath working at the new high school. And a new outcast Rachel(Emily Bergl) whose friend commits suicide at the school. This character didn't quite fit in with her foster family. Because her mother is a nutshell. And the jocks were the real heels of the movie. The plot kinda mirrors the first movie, but unlike the first "Carrie" with Sissy Spacek, Emily Bergl's Rachel was meaner looking. And there was no blood spatter in this one. Although RACHEL'S WRATH was much MUCH worse than Carrie's. Her tattoo comes alive, her powers is unleashed and everyone is in deep trouble, including the last survivor of the first movie. She really defined the term "pokerface". CDs and flying glass were effective on everyone who crossed and deceived her. Rachel was indeed deadlier than Carrie. But one question left me to wonder, did she perish? Only time will tell. This movie was weird compared to the first, and I out of all people would think twice on making her mad! Rating 2.5 out 5 stars.

To my horror, not only does this movie rip-off the plot from the first "Carrie", this lackluster sequel steals from other teen movies as well. There's an abusive football coach that only wants to win (Varsity Blues), issues of sex and cruelty are dealt with (Cruel Intentions), and our heroine goes to a big party in a slinky red dress (She's All That). The acting stunk. Emily Bergl did a poor imitation of a faux-angst grunge chick. Zachery Ty Bryan didn't come across as a "bad boy" and Rachael Blanchard acting as if she were still in a "Clueless" episode. The gore was WAY overdone and implausible (How could CDs kill someone?). The plot had many holes (Would Rachael really hang around people who indirectly caused her friend's death?) Add gratuitous male nudity and you got a cinematic train wreck. This movie insults the name Carrie.

The words "Stephen King" and "Sequel" usually make the skin crawl, but The Rage: Carrie 2 isn't all bad.

Question: does everyone in movies have to be so pretty? In this film we are asked to believe that Emily Bergl and Mena Suvari are ugly, just as Rachel Leigh Cook was supposedly plain Jane in "She's All That". Please! I thought Bergl was beautiful, but I have a soft spot for girls with a dark side. On the other hand, the leader of the jocks who ostensibly got all the chicks looked like Ethan Hawke's redneck cousin. These guys are such misogynistic pricks that you can't wait for them to die. The scariest thing about this movie is the knowledge that jocks like that exist, thinkng they are entitled to everything thy want because they can throw a ball.

carrie 2 another boring depressing movie. Like the first the first 40 minutes nothing happens and than an outburst of violence. Who wants to see a guy's penis being ripped of by a spear and stuck on his leg. I did enjoy it better than the first one since it sucked. Emily Bergl plays Rachel 23 years after Carrie destroyed her Prom. Amy Irving is in Carrie 2 as the only surviver from the first movie. If you like dark depressing films give this one a go.

The only partially amusing portion of this film was the last 15 minutes when the new Carrie started killing her classmates. This sequel had none of the inventiveness or spookiness of the the first film. Nothing was scary about this film except how painfully boring and out of touch the movie was. Like Sam Jackson in Deep Blue Sea, I am sure Mena Suvari was more than glad to exit the film early. In the period of particularly bad teen horror films, Carrie 2 out does them all.

One of the scariest movies I have ever seen was Carrie (the first one!). Now, as with other movies, they have totally ruined the Carrie franchise with The Rage: Carrie 2. From the beginnning, the movie plods along like geriatics in a beat-up van. There are hardly any scares and this movie is chock-full of all the various high-school sterotypes (i.e. the football jock, the bitchy cheer-leader, the followers and of course the black nailpolish wearing misfits). Another sad thing about this show is that you know what's going to happen the moment you see the opening credits. Sure, sure, girl gets humilated thourghly and then turns into crazed psychic murderer...yawn...

Been there. Done that.

Even the actors look like they were forced into doing this movie. Emily Bergl is as frightening as a cabbage patch doll while Jack London... let's just say i didn't pay to see wood act. Apart from the actors, the flasbacks serve more to irritate than to link up with the first movie.

Bottom line, If you can beam objects around like Carrie, then for the love of God beam yourself out of that theatre......

I had read some bad reviews of this movie, that it didn't live up to the original and such. Having never seen the original I can't judge that. But I did have a good time with the movie. It isn't incredibly funny, or incredibly scary, but it does have a reality that made it a good movie. The characters were believable, even though many of them were off-the-shelf personalities. I especially liked the Romeo and Juliet touch that had undertones through the whole movie. The only thing I would really ask to be changed in this movie is the last minute, being quite cliche for a horror movie.