sentences:  While Johnson considered the film "a respectable piece of work" owing to an intelligent script that developed all of King's themes, Wertheimer classified it negatively within "the generic made-for-television standard".Ian Jane of DVD Talk opined "Carrie" was "decent enough" for the limitations of a TV film, and Arrigo said "the lack of cinematic quality" reflected the television standards of the 2000s.Although Wertheimer claimed that the film's drawbacks were not simply caused by the medium, he did make the criticism that the prom scenes were sapped by the commercial breaks