Product Description

Welcome to Bates High School. The lesson for today: stay on Rachel Lang's good side because this outcast teen has a fiery temper that can't be controlled! Joining her in the halls are Jason London (Dazed and Confused), Dylan Bruno (Saving Private Ryan), J. Smith-Cameron (In & Out), Zachery Ty Bryan ( Home Improvement ) and Amy Irving (Carrie) for an explosion of supernatural violence (Variety) that will keep you on the edge of your seat to the blazing, bloody end! Rachel (Emily Bergl) is a high school outcast who gets caught in the middle of a vicious prankorchestrated by a group of over-sexed jocksthat turns deadly. Once the police bring one of the boys in for questioning, his pals target Rachel for squealing and hatch a devious scheme to publicly humiliate her. But messing with Rachel is worse than playing with fire for when her temper's crossed it triggers a powder-keg of anger and unleashes special powers that can turn a fun house party into a mad-house inferno!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37801 in DVD
• Released on: 1999-10-12
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 104 minutes

Amazon.com
The best stuff in this ridiculously conceived sequel to Brian De Palma's groundbreaking '70s classic are the occasional, too-brief flashbacks to De Palma's groundbreaking '70s classic. They occur in the mind of Sue Snell (Amy Irving, shamelessly reprising her role), the only main character left alive during Carrie's prom revenge freakout. After a brief stint in an insane asylum, Snell is now a therapist at a suburban high school and is currently counseling Rachel Lang (Emily Bergl). Rachel isn't like other girls. When Rachel gets really mad, she moves things with her mind. Rachel's been really mad lately, because her best friend jumped from a rooftop in the first 10 minutes of this movie. Even though there's absolutely no development of this relationship, don't doubt it: we know they're best friends because they have matching tattoos. Rachel's friend lost it because she was the latest victim in a fun game that members of the football team play off the field in which they keep a running count of how many girls they can seduce, using a rating scale based on appearance. Of course, there's a nice one, Jesse (Jason London), who feels guilty about playing the game and falls for Carrie, er, Rachel. Everything appears to be changing for Rachel, but Jesse's friends have other plans. Snell knows what's up, however, and it's pretty funny watching her explain it to Rachel: "I've been through this movie before" is essentially what she says, but Rachel doesn't want to hear that she's not an original character, that she's a cheap, slightly hardened and revised '90s rip-off with no autonomy. It makes Rachel want to move things with her mind. --Dave McCoy

Customer Reviews

Love this movie...why the hate?
I really liked this movie, I made no attempt to compare it to the original Carrie or the remake. If you put all that aside you have a more modern teenage...highschool revenge story which was done really well. The effects at the end were well done and the cast I thought was well chosen. Don't overthink it...just enjoy...

how does a fictional character go about attaining 'autonomy'?
This movie is worth watching because of the actress who plays Rachel. She is quite strong. It is not often that I have seen a role for a woman(particularly a young woman) that embodies so much strength and individuality. Rachel is a great character. She has depth, power, and a modest undercurrent of creepiness. However, she also has a vulnerability and an inherent decency that make her likeable.In addition, she can be warm and charming when she's treated with any degree of consideration.Of course, critics will say that the movie deliberately sets out to make her more sympathetic than the other kids so that the audience will cheer her on when she starts killing people. (The same idea as Death Wish or Dirty Harry.) But that doesn't render the basic premise any less valid.Anyone who has ever attended an American high school knows that you are far more likely to find integrity and individuality on the fringes. As a general rule, who's gonna be more honest, more decent? The cheerleader? The quarterback? Please!!! Of course, there are no saints, but if you're looking for some sense of morality, you'll usually be more likely to find it in the same place it's found in this movie: in the person who thinks for himself(or herself) and acts on their own convictions.Rachel is that sort of person. She doesn't care if you like her or not. She's going to be who she is. We need more people like her in the so-called 'real world.'
I agree with the official reviewer that the movie is not nearly in the class with the original. The first 'Carrie' is one of my absolute favorites.But I disagree with his conclusions about the main character. The movie is worth seeing because of her.
In case the title of my review confuses anyone, it is a reference to something in the official Amazon review. That person said that Rachel was an 'unoriginal' character with no autonomy. Whether or not she's original is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. But no 'autonomy'? Does any fictional character have any autonomy? A fictional character is, after all, the creation of someone else. A collaboration between the actress, writer, and director, at the very least.In other words, they have about as much autonomy as a car or a blender.Sentences such as this make some of us believe that critics are, for the most part, nothing more than pretentious fools.

Looks Can Kill... so can stupid movies.
What can one say about MGM's 1999 release of The Rage: Carrie 2? Chances are, no one has anything good to say about it, except that it really bites. The story begins with two high school girls, one of which kills herself in the first ten minutes of the movie. The other, Rachel, finds out why her friend committed suicide, leading into a high school storyline spawned off of Varsity Blues and the original De Palma classic, Carrie. There is a strong absence of emotional depth to this movie, as well as any evidence that this movie wants to do its predecessor justice. While trying to maintain a steady movement to keep its audience entertained, this movie jumps from scene to scene without any sense of flow. Of course, the inevitable ending disaster comes, in which Rachel uses her mind to destroy her classmates at a party. This is where the movie gets really ridiculous, with a strong emphasis on gore and blood. I mean, come on: CD's slicing into a girl's body, shattering doors beheading several people, a fire poker killing two at once. What is it with Hollywood? Where is the point to this sequence of blood and guts? I give this movie one star on the basis of one thing: it's about time someone shot off Zachary Ty Bryan's... well, you know. This is definitely a movie not for the light of the stomach or those in search of drama, only for those with blood on the mind.