Review of Carrie (2002) by Lana H — 08 Aug 2014

The second time I have seen this 70's classic remade, and the second time I wish they had left it alone.

Like Angela Bettis before her, Chloe Grace Moretz is a good actress, but she's not Carrie.

For a start, she is too pretty. Even at the beginning, with her hair scraped back, she is not an outsider. Sissy Spacek, while attractive in a strange way, also had an eerie quality to her which made it apparent why kids would pick on her. I believe in the original, the taunting kid on the bike calls her "creepy Carrie", where in this, it's "crazy Carrie". It is an important difference for this character.

Ditto to the prom scene -Chloe is beautiful. The popular kids would have been all over her as one of them.

This is so - so until the end.

I didn't love it, and it felt unnecessary, but I could appreciate the effort of the cast to make this work.

Until the end, where this makes the same mistake the previous remake made.

Evil, vengeful Carrie stomping round with lots of violence and fire.

I never got that the original Carrie was doing it on purpose. Or not to the point this one was.

And don't even start me on Carrie's final words to Sue. Why the hell was that twist even in it?

I also could have done without the modernising - Carrie has no place on You Tube.

Honestly this story worked better in the 70's and if people are too dumb to want to watch an older movie, their loss.