Felix Vasquez told his readers his memory of the movie in his review: "I remember the first time my brother and I asked my parents if we could rent “Leprechaun” from the video store. My dad responded with “No way! You guys won’t be able to look at a box of Lucky Charms for a month!” Suffice it to say he did rent it after we begged, and not only did the movie not scare us, but it bored us to tears." You can tell the creators of this painful franchise had run out of slasher villains to think up. Trolls were done, the same with elves, so they decided that a leprechaun was the next failed slasher villain they were going for.
Ten years earlier, Daniel O'Grady (Shay Duffin) comes back from Ireland rich, ready to live the affluent life, but not until he sees the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) who is in his home. After stealing the gold, the Leprechaun demands that he wants it back, and proves it by killing Daniel's wife, played by Pamela Mant, and prompt Daniel to his death by having a stroke. Luckily, Daniel is able to nail the Leprechaun in a wooden box, trapping him in there for a four leaf clover before dying. A decade passes, and J.D. Redding (John Sanderford) and his daughter Tory (the hot Jennifer Aniston from the show "Friends," making her film debut) rent the farmhouse. They hire contract workers Nathan (Ken Olandt), his brother Alex (Robert Hy Gorman) and their friend Ozzie Jones (Mark Holton) to re-paint the farm. In the process of looking through the farmhouse, the clover is knocked off the crate. Now the Leprechaun is out of the box and is causing trouble with a go-kart, a baby's tricycle and a POJO STICK! There's even a ridiculous game of hide and seek in the woods with Deputy Tripet, played by David Permenter.
The main issue is that the creators try to make the Leprechaun into a slasher villain instead of simply making him a unfair cheat. This is a creature with gold that grants wishes, and they don't really delve into that. Instead, he hides behind shelves, insults kids and trips people by their ankles. He even kills someone with a POJO STICK, if you want to think they thought that up! Vasquez said, "I would have loved the Leprechaun to be this monster that introduces fortune and wealth to a group that gradually transforms them in to greedy monsters murdering each another, as he sits by enjoying the and pulling the strings." Warwick Davis is nice as the Leprechaun with some nice make up, but it sucks that he was not used in the right way.
Bottom line: don't make the mistake to see this movie. The characters are idiots and do you honestly think that we would be scared of a stupid Leprechaun? They should have stopped it right here! Instead, they decided to keep making shameful sequel after shameful sequel when they should have known that it was only going to get worse. Although Alex gets a pretty awesome line, which you can see by clicking here.
If you want to know how, stay tuned tomorrow when we look at the first sequel in this pitiful franchise in "Halloween Month."
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