Carrie White (portrayed by Angela Bettis) is your typical High school girl...except she is hated by all, and she has telekinesis. This movie is alot better than the original for many reasons. First of all, i am only 15, so i am going to think that the special effects are better right off the bat. I loved the original, but this one is so much better. I have read the book, and this one follows the book pretty much to the t. For instance, in the shower scene, they weren't supposed to yell "PLUG IT UP!", but rather "period" over and over. Also, the way the mother dies follows the book rather than the original. This is the way the movie was meant to be, and this version should've been made in 76, rather than the original. It would've worked just as good, had the original cast been in this version...These stars are just as good though.

For anyone who didn't like Angela Bettis as Carrie, I would say that's a shame. For anyone who thought May was a bad movie, I'm left speechless. Anyway, I do like the modern twist of the movie and the best part of the movie is when Carrie wreaks havoc on everyone. She is very scary! Anyway, although this "Carrie" will always be compared to the original movie and book, I think it was well done.

This is high school. Both the Carrie and Tommy characters are way too old for these parts and it shows. In true life the Carrie character (Angela Bettis) who is supposed to be 18 is 29 and Tommy (Tobias Mehler) is 26. Would of been a stretch for college seniors but high school - get real. Some actors can pull it off - Sissy Spacek was about the same age as Angela when she played it - but not these two. If you want to watch Carrie watch the Sissy Spacek version. This one is a poor TV copy cat version.

I avoided this movie ever since it came out,because i thought the original Carrie was perfect ,and i was right. I finally rented the newer version of Carrie,i thought the new cast just didn't have that chemistry like the original. I don't understand why they would take a strong film and make a weak film. I didn't like any of the cast members. I mean Sissy Spacek is Carrie no one can top her performance, and Piper Laurie as Margret White just blew me away in the original and also Betty Buckley and Nancy Allen were terrific. I know they went more by the book, i would have rather seen the original updated with the deleted seens,like were carrie was little and was talking to the teenage girl next door about her dirty pillows but other than that the original movie was perfect,no need for this one.

Despite the 1976 film being more skillfully directed by Brian DePalma, and despite its star-making performance by Sissy Spacek, its over-the-top hellfire and damnation ending completely lost me. It seemed to validate the mother's religious fanaticism, and I do not believe it was what Carrie, as a character, deserved. The 2002 remake reinforces my view on this, since it shows more clearly than did the 1976 film that Carrie's rage-driven power, when it reaches its full-blown form, is involuntary. One can argue that leaving the remake open-ended for a planned TV series, which never got off the ground, was a mistake that leaves it unsatisfying, but I still prefer this more humane take on the story to the religious cheap shots in the original.

As i find the orginal the best and the rage: carrie 2 dumb the tv movie of carrie is nearly as good as the real carrie.What make it good is that this one is more to the book story line they have done a good job with this one.