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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.

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 ****

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").

Approximately twenty years had passed since De Palma's legendary adaptation of King's high school horror captivated audiences. Twenty years of cinema evolving as an art form and the leading entertainment industry. Within that time, director Mandel had opted to start production on a sequel to Carrie, the infamous telekinetic outcast that obliterated everyone (aside from three survivors...) after being humiliated at her school prom. Creative differences with the studio had arisen, forcing Shea to haphazardly resume directing duties within the space of a week. The final result being this abnormally titled continuation that attaches the film's predecessor as a suffix to ensure audiences knew what iconic piece of cinema Shea would be imitating, The Rage: Carrie 2.

Over twenty years later since the prom incident, Rachel, whom is yet another outcast for her grungy aesthetic, witnesses the suicide of her best friend which happens to be the result of popular football jocks rejecting girls after exploiting them for sexual interactions. An intriguing angle to proceed with, representing the absurdity of high school machismo and blurring sexual deviances with popularity contests. Police get involved, pursuing statutory rape charges, and Rachel continues her day as if nothing happened. Eventually, Sue (one of the survivors from the first feature), now the school's guidance counsellor, attempts to resolve sudden emotional changes within Rachel after Lisa's suicide, only to suspect she may exude the same telekinetic powers that Carrie once had. Despite the B-movie cheapness and begrimed musical aesthetic, with Harvey's soundtrack questionably opting for smooth jazz pieces instead of Marilyn Manson or Nine Inch Nails (to which posters of these artists were fully displayed in her bedroom...), there was a seed of strength for Rachel and the perception of female empowerment during the first thirty minutes. Then she falls in love with popular jock Jesse, after her dog somehow survived being rampantly demolished by a passing vehicle, and familiarity begins to settle.

Shea, along with Moreu's uncharacterised screenplay, mimics the exact same narrational beats as De Palma's original. Popular students set Rachel up by showing falsified generosity and kindness, inviting her to a house party after the "game of the year". Rachel is now content with life, completely forgetting about the suicide of her best friend within the space of five minutes. She's then predictably humiliated in front of everyone before activating "Super Saiyan" rage mode and slaughtering everyone as she walks like a paralysed tree with thorns being "sharpied" onto her skin, supposedly growing from her best friend tattoo. Doors are suddenly opened and closed through her psychic abilities, fooling everyone with the obvious wires that were failed to be removed from the final edit (oops...). Ending the entire feature on a jump scare.

Why? Just why does this sequel exist? There doesn't need to be one. At all. Shea clearly struggled to imitate the excellence of De Palma's predecessor, focussing on the climactic gore-fest instead of crafting sympathetic characters. A chance for credible female superiority over the pride of excessive masculinity. The acting was wooden all-round, particularly London, exemplifying no emotional resonance whatsoever. The monochromatic filter whenever psychic powers overwhelmed Rachel was a disposable gimmick that laughably exerted pretentiousness. And, in all honesty, shrouded itself in an indescribable amount of pointlessness.

Therefore, the question remains. Why? What is the purpose of copying an entire adaptation, pretending it to be a sequel by incorporating flashbacks and only one character to link both features, and provide minimal narrative context through boring expendable characters? Much like Rachel, The Rage suffers from a colossal identity crisis that merely acts as an example for failed plagiarism. Predictable and forgettable. A cult following it may have, one that shan't be receiving my full support.

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.

Making a sequel to a famous movie shouldn't be only an excuse to make a movie but that's what we have here. "Carrie" was a remarkable film when it debuted but was being forgotten over time. This was a sequel attempt but any resemblance to "Carrie" is mere coincidence, as it repeats the same story with another girl, Rachael Lang, blending everything with the usual ingredients of the obnoxious teen movies. And just like "Carrie" or any slasher teen movie, everything ends in carnage, with gore to the liking of teenagers without brains and who use their genitals to think. Boring and predictable are two adjectives we can use for it Frankenstein plot, as strange as the breeding of a mare with a zebra. The ending is rather exaggerated and forced. The main character, Rachael, never really gets connected with the public, so her life or death is something that doesn't bother us. The film makes a lot of effort to look scary but it's like a magician show: huge show off that brings nothing new. The actors aren't necessarily good but their work is OK. Conclusion: Its a teenage film that is on the borderline between mediocre and bearable, using the fame of an old film in an inglorious way.

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.

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.

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.

The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) is a movie I recently rewatched on Amazon Prime. The storyline takes place in the town the legendary Carrie White incident took place. Most of the local teens laugh off the local legend as a fable made up by their parents. When the football players start a targeted sex game that offends and belittles some of the girls at the high school, they better not piss off the wrong classmate or we may see another Carrie White experience.

This movie is directed by Katt Shea (Poison Ivy) and stars Jason London (Dazed and Confused), Emily Bergl (Taken), Amy Irving (Carrie), Zachery Ty Bryan (Home Improvement), Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie) and Mena Suvari (American Pie).

The cast in this is very well selected and they did a great job with their characters. The storyline actually had a pretty good setup and I always like this movie for the first 70% of the film. They go a great job of establishing the characters, the town and the circumstances. Unfortunately the action and kill scenes when they finally happen aren't as well executed and believable as the original film. It's really disappointing because there was so much potential to close the storyline out well but the conclusion is awful.

This is one of those movies you start off thinking "this isn't as bad as I remembered it," then they get to the house party at the end and the entire movie falls apart and it ends up being terrible. I will say this is worth watching once but is a below average addition to the genre. I'd score this a 4/10.