Teenage comes of age flick.

Rating: 3/10 (25 March 2003)

This story is of Carrie, a girl who is picked on to the ridicules extreme right at the beginning of the movie. The girls who pick on her are punished and one goes to the extreme to get revenge on the girl who had nothing really to do with her getting into trouble. This one is so much like a typical day at a high school that it is boring. Of course Carrie has a secret...her mom's psycho. So when the teacher tells her about the problems Carrie has at school, she proceeds to beat Carrie and tell her how evil she is. You just know she has a complex. Carrie also has special powers too. So a nice girl lets Carrie go to the prom with her boyfriend, the bad girl dumps something on Carrie at prom and all heck breaks loose. This film is just too mundane in some areas for it to be interesting. Nothing you see is really all that revolutionary here...teens have been this way to each other forever. The only thing interesting, or that is a new wrinkle is the powers and the really horrific prom, which for me just isn't enough to save the flick, but I can see why others like it. It just isn't for me.