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Summary: Sometimes I wish I could be one of the shiny, happy people.
Review: I feel exactly how Rachel feels in this film. I've thought for a while that the front cover of this DVD was so cool, and I finally decided to buy it on DVD. The little insert inside has an even cooler front cover!!! This movie hit a chord with me, although none of my friends killed themselves over a guy, or got filmed having sex. But I recognised a few people in it - the loner, the jocks who aren't old enough to grow stubble, the popular girls ... So many. The film really starts when Mena Suvari's character kills herself, and this sets off a chain reaction of events. (Look out for Finch, if you want to see another American Pie character!) The thing I hated about that, is the prinicipal (played by Amy Irving, Sue Snell from the original - and she's so unrecognisable!) tells the school that there will be a moment's silence. Excuse me, someone's just committed suicide, don't you think the school should CLOSE?! When Rachel has a telekinetic episode, what is seen through her eyes is black & white, making you notice it more, and has a similar significance to the red in Sixth Sense. I thought Emily Bergl (Rachel) played the character brilliantly, and even had a certain quality about her - she totally reminded me of Sissy Spacek in the original. Someone's been studying the original! The way she moved, her eyes ... True, the original is a classic, and always will be considered a classic, but this matches it perfectly. I really enjoyed it. I think if you hadn't seen the original, it would still be good. The finale is better than the finale in the original (I NEED to get that on DVD next). Lots of people (mainly the guys, and anyone with glasses) will be wincing during the ending. The thorns seemingly growing over Rachel's body at the end is a very cool effect. The extras on the DVD were OK, the alternate ending didn't really make much sense, so you can see why they took it out. It's a pity some of the deleted scenes weren't kept in, some of them were brilliant! This film is a must-see. It brings back memories of the original Carrie, and for teenagers, it will remind you of your good/bad days at high school.
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Summary: ALL THE RAGE
Review: This is an awesome movie it is alot better than the original. Plus it was filmed at North Gaston High School (Where I'm going) in Dallas, North Carolina.
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Summary: BETTA than the first 1!
Review: yea i thaught this film woz much betta than the first 1! if u liked carrie u will like this betta! this one has more of a story 2 it than carrie.
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Summary: THE RAGE: CARRIE 2--Good but not great
Review: What we've got with THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 is what I like to call a "curiously frustrating" movie. Why anyone thought it was necessary to sequelize Brian De Palma's great 1976 film CARRIE is a mystery...unless one takes the money angle into account. There are good things about it, but there are bad things about it that make it rather uneven. The good: Emily Bergl's performance as Rachel, the "half-sister" of Carrie White, is really something else. Nothing about her performance is taken away when it's noted that she's not Sissy Spacek. The idea of "high school as Hell" is updated to the present, but is as effective for 1999 as the original was to 1976. Jason London also scores as the only sympathetic member of the jock clique that really wants to do Rachel in. And finally, for the most part, director Katt Shea manages to build a certain amount of suspense in the Hitchcock/DePalma/Spielberg tradition. The bad: The jocks, led by Dylan Bruno, are so unremmitingly repulsive. The explanation for Rachel's telekinesis is extremely far-fetched. Amy Irving's return as Sue Snell (who is now a guidance counselor) is marked by her having little to do and by having her unceremoniously killed off. The film really goes off the rails, however, in the climax, set in a rich jock's mansion; it is a partial remake of the original's prom scene in which the blood and gore are upped to extreme levels, but there's none of the same drama and tragedy that marked the firestorm in the 1976 classic. CARRIE 2, thus, seems like an afterthought, an attempt to wean the SCREAM/URBAN LEGEND crowd while unwisely using clips from the original to connect the two films. Were it not for Bergl's and London's performances, this would barely rank two stars, possibly even one. I give CARRIE 2 a marginal recommendation; but for a real combination of psychological horror and drama, the original still beats all the new kids on the block hands down.
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Summary: Where has all the talent gone?
Review: I am absolutely amazed at the number of people who think this garbage is on a par (and some say, even better!) with the original Brian DePalma/Sissy Spacek version. All I can say is this: If the reviewers who say they like this rank piece of !@#$% are truly the leaders of tomorrow, then we are in deep, deep trouble. To compare this "director" and "actress" (I cringe even as I use the words) to the brilliant DePalma and Spacek is sacrilegious. Don't hold your breath waiting for Emily Bergl to ever be nominated for an Oscar, much less win it! Any money that this movie makes, and if it made more than $100 there is no justice in the world, is directly attributable to the brilliant original. I can't say that I'm surprised at the total lack of acting, directing, suspense, and intrigue that this movie has in spades, but I am very disappointed in Amy Irving attaching herself to this drivel just for the paycheck. This is a very disturbing trend in movies...this mentality that apparently exists with producers to slap together directors who can't direct, actors who can't act, screenwriters unapologetically virtually plagiarizing the original and calling it a new and better effort. God help us all!!!
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Summary: THE RAGE: CARRIE 2--Good but not great
Review: What we've got with THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 is what I like to call a "curiously frustrating" movie. Why anyone thought it was necessary to sequelize Brian De Palma's great 1976 film CARRIE is a mystery...unless one takes the money angle into account. There are good things about it, but there are bad things about it that make it rather uneven. The good: Emily Bergl's performance as Rachel, the "half-sister" of Carrie White, is really something else. Nothing about her performance is taken away when it's noted that she's not Sissy Spacek. The idea of "high school as Hell" is updated to the present, but is as effective for 1999 as the original was to 1976. Jason London also scores as the only sympathetic member of the jock clique that really wants to do Rachel in. And finally, for the most part, director Katt Shea manages to build a certain amount of suspense in the Hitchcock/DePalma/Spielberg tradition. The bad: The jocks, led by Dylan Bruno, are so unremmitingly repulsive. The explanation for Rachel's telekinesis is extremely far-fetched. Amy Irving's return as Sue Snell (who is now a guidance counselor) is marked by her having little to do and by having her unceremoniously killed off. The film really goes off the rails, however, in the climax, set in a rich jock's mansion; it is a partial remake of the original's prom scene in which the blood and gore are upped to extreme levels, but there's none of the same drama and tragedy that marked the firestorm in the 1976 classic. CARRIE 2, thus, seems like an afterthought, an attempt to wean the SCREAM/URBAN LEGEND crowd while unwisely using clips from the original to connect the two films. Were it not for Bergl's and London's performances, this would barely rank two stars, possibly even one. I give CARRIE 2 a marginal recommendation; but for a real combination of psychological horror and drama, the original still beats all the new kids on the block hands down.
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Summary: They're all gonna laugh at you...AGAIN!
Review: "The Rage: Carrie 2" serves more like a remake than a sequel to the 1976 original. 23 years after Carrie White killed off most of her senior class when a prank was pulled on her at the prom, a new girl is walking the halls of Bates High School. Her name is Rachel Lang (Emily Bergyl). Little does she know it, but she is the half sister of Carrie (same father, different mother), and she also has telekinetic powers which she uses to her advantage in the end! Luckily, Sue Snell (Amy Irving), one of the few survivors from Carrie's massacre, is a guidance counselor who tries to help Rachel before it's too late. Ok, now for the review. This film is good, it is nowhere near as good as the original, and it is similar, but it does have a few differences while trying to keep up the spirit of it's predecessor. The kids in this are nasty, and although this is bad, I was glad they were killed off, I mean, they deserved it! They didn't care about anyone or anything, as long as their prank humiliated and degraded poor Rachel. Director Katt Shea does well with creating a love story between Rachel and a jock, but she fails to capture the "horror" during the climax. Everything happens too quickly, we see fireplace pokers fly around and hit people and CD's pelting a girl, heads being cut off by flying glass and people being set on fire, but instead of gasping in horror, we laugh. We also get to see some nice scenes of a jock getting something ripped off, although I won't give it away to people who haven't seen the movie. When the rage kicks in though, Shea does manage to display Rachel's sense of shock and disbelief and anger, with fast, up close shots of the main baddies laughing at her, and a distorted picture of the rest of the party laughing hysterically before their demises. Kind of like in the original Carrie, when she thinks they are laughing at her, and she sees distored, blurry circles of her "friends" before letting go of her rage. Anyway, although the two stories are similar, there are differences in tastes, fashions, fads, etc, considering that this film takes place in 1999 while the other takes place in 1976, but this doesn't distract too much from the storyline. The effects and acting are good, and the flashback scenes are really good, put in at just the right moments whenever Rachel has one of her "episodes". One thing, how come no one tore down the old burned out Bates High School????? If you are a die-hard Stephen King fan, rent the original, if you want a different approach to an old story, rent this one.
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Summary: Not much has changed...
Review: The sequal isn't all that different from the original except that Rachel appears to have great self esteem and sticks up for herself.
The mothers in both movies are mentally unstable or insane, both Carrie and Rachel are outsiders, both had powers, both are in high school, both have popular girls out to get them, and both kill everyone along with themselves but managed to spare one classmates life in the process.
Part two seemed more like an updated version of the original. A sequal is a continuance of the original. This one was not.
It could have been so much better.
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Summary: Good Rage!!!
Review: This movie is one of the few movies that's as entertaining as the original. But has the same ideas as the original like party scene which was rigged to inviting her there then everyone dies, so its pretty much like Carrie 1 except for the new generation. I love the part with her tattoo grows and the heart beats-good scene! I found it to be a great horror movie, and a much needed break from the original slasher films-not that I don't like them or anything!
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Summary: Of COurse its not as great as the original!
Review: First of all the original carrie is and always will be a classic. it is one of my favorite movies. why they decided to make a sequel is beyond me but they did. of course sequels hardly ever live up to the original and this one doesnt. BUt I'll tell you what its alot better then a lot of crap being made nowadys like i know what you did last summer and scream.
this sequel has an outcast named rachel played decently by enily bergl. she falls for one of the nice jocks in school played by jason london. only the school counselor played by amy irving(returning from the original) knows rachel has telekenesis and knows that her temper is going to get ugly. and her temper does get ugly at a party when a cruel joke gets played on her. and she gets her revenge. from flying killer cd's to a fire poker she gets her vengeance. I have to say i did not like wht happened to amy irving but i wont rveal what happens. if youve seen the movie you know what happens. believ me i was pretty shocked. and of course the ending is a bit stupid but thats what you get in a sequel. do yourself a favor and watch the original instead.
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