Pontifex Aureus started his review out by saying, "Ok…I will admit that I went into this review looking for an easy target to pick on; what better than something ridiculous like Leprechaun in the Hood, right? Well, surprise—it wasn’t actually all that bad! I take that back, it is bad…but I could sit through it once. The Leprechaun series was never one to take itself very seriously, but Leprechaun in the Hood takes it to new levels of stupid and almost ends up being decent if only it didn’t skimp on the gore and run out of comedic gas early on."
As you might have already guessed it, there isn't really a story, but three rappers (Anthony Montgomery, Rashaan Nall and Red Grant) steal a magic flute from a mobster (rapper Ice-T) which has the ability for everyone to like their music, even if it sucks. Turns out this mobster stole it from teh Leprechaun, who (you guessed it) comes back to like and wants his flute back, while also finding out about weed and rap.
The movie actually is interesting when it begins. The first ten minutes is a stabbing with an afro comb and Ice-T taking a baseball bat out of his afro (which questions how he got it in there?). Aureus questions, "After this, a few amusing scenes with the rap trio trying to pawn a guitar left me with high hopes that Leprechaun in the Hood might actually turn out to be pretty good. Unfortunately, the laughs die out quickly around the 20 minute mark and the movie becomes unbearably dumb. Where we started off well with silly but effective slapstick, we end up with lame rhymes and cross-dressing rappers by movies-end." The horror and comedy are not put together in the right way, like how it was with the previous movies. Rather than trying to combine them, they try to outsmart one another, with horror and comedy trying to be better than the other.
As you guessed, the story's bad and there's not comedy, but does it have good killings? Obviously not, as you also have guessed. For a horror movie, it's so cheap when it comes to the special effects. You don't see a lot of the murders and you think if it's implied or off-screen. Other kills are also so weak, like killing by green CGI lightning or simply Leprechaun pointing and making them spontaneously combust. Aureus was funny when he said, "Honestly, he might as well just be going around shooting people with a gun…—that actually sounds like a funny premise (Leprechaun with a Shotgun)!"
The worst part about it is that after starting out great, the movie starts to show that it was poorly created and boring. The direction wasn't taken the right way at certain areas that don't make any sense. Like when a couple are having a love moment when the woman changes into a beast, which makes you think that's Leprechaun in disguise. However, the joke is on you because the woman kills her man, the camera then goes to the Leprechaun laughing in some kind of void. You don't know if he is watching somewhere or where he is. However, we do see later on that Leprechaun gets stuck in a safe and we see the void that he was in. Looks like that part didn't include the safe the Leprechaun wasn't even in yet.
It should come as no surprise "Leprechaun in the Hood" is a horrible movie and with how boirng and unimaginative it is doesn't even make it "so bad it's good." Aureus suggests, "However, it really does start off well, it’s not the worst Leprechaun movie I’ve seen (cough, Leprechaun 4, cough), and I give the film credit for its wacky premise. The idea of an evil Leprechaun running around Compton is so juicy that you really wish that they’d done more with the idea. If you decide to watch the movie, do yourself a favor and watch the first 20 minutes, stop the DVD and then imagine a better movie in your mind." There is a Leprechaun rap scene, which is probably the worst rap ever.
Just to think that they decided to make another Leprechaun movie of him in the hood. If you want to know how bad that is, check in tomorrow.
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