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Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Eric Stevenson This is the worst movie I've seen for Slasher Month, not that I had high regards for most of these films anyway. This movie features the leprechaun claiming a girl to be his bride because a slave of his promised a descendant would be his bride or some stupid thing like that. This film is so idiotic as it doesn't even make sense within the context of the first film. The first movie shows the leprechaun being blown up at the end, but here he comes back with no explanation. I really miss Jennifer Aniston. Sure, it was awful she was in the first stupid movie to begin with, but at least they had an acclaimed actress in it.The leprechaun still has no name. This movie takes place at Saint Patrick's Day. I guess it's weird to watch this for a Halloween Month but with all the people the leprechaun kills, it's more appropriate here. There's apparently a lot of midgets who dress as leprechauns in this movie. Wouldn't that be demeaning? There's this long weird pointless scene where they try to get the leprechaun drunk to beat it or something. This movie is surprisingly boring. In the first movie, the leprechaun's weakness was a four leaf clover. Now it's instead lead for no reason.The leprechaun's killed by being impaled by a pipe which once again blows him up. In one scene, the leprechaun makes all his gold materialize in one place. Wait, if he can do that, why can't he just teleport his last gold coin? And how come in the first movie, the guy who swallowed the last coin wasn't immune to him like in this movie? Leprechauns can apparently teleport, imitate voices, shapeshift, levitate things, become invisible, and create illusions. Okay, this leprechaun is just too powerful. They can also grant three wishes, but I thought that was a genie. This movie is a stupid violent piece of garbage and I hate it. *

GL84 Trying to make an honest living, a teen's attempts to fix his relationship with his girlfriend is tested when she falls victim to a leprechaun's curse to be his his bride and forces him to utilize the legends of their nature to rescue her from her fate.This one was a decidedly lackluster though still entertaining effort. One of the few good parts here is the fun mind-games that come about once she's captured as that's when the fun really gets going. While the initial abduction from her house makes for some great action chasing around the house, and there's the perverse taunting being done when he tries to get her to submit as his wife, teasing her with the body modifications that must be done in order to brood his offspring, though it really tends to work well in the inescapable tunnel route by making it impossible to leave and always ending up back where they started in the liar. It's a pretty nightmarish concept that really works well at getting to her, though it's best utilized in the finale weer it's an even more effective tool to tease and frustrate the two throughout their battles into an extremely fun sequence that has even more going for it beyond this fun lair. This has some really enjoyable elements in how they begin fighting each other as the brawl with the controlled skeleton and keeping her safe using some nice counters to his trickery while keeping this upbeat and quite a bit better than expected. This one also comes really nicely with the enhanced amount of goofy, cheesy action which is now much more prevalent with the rather fun encounter in the bar where they drink him under the table and cause him to become staggering drunk, a rather goofy encounter in the office where they trap it in the iron safe before turning his tricks on them to escape and finally the scene at the drag racing spot where he runs them down with a souped-up demonic drag car that's just such a cheesy idea in concept and execution that there's very little about this that doesn't become appealing. Along with the great kills here, these here do manage to hold up the film against the few minor flaws in this one. Just like the original, the fact that this is just so much goofy, cheesy action here at the expense of actual horror elements that it might wear thin for some in how this goes overboard with these elements. The jokes and rhyming quips which are a constant here, not only from the kills but also during the simple scenes of them hanging out around his cave which is quite goofy that really makes this one too comical to take seriously while the original had a lot of success mixing the two. That in turns leads to the other big flaw here in that there's several new changes that quite different from the original, as the new weakness here makes no sense as it's not tied into their history at all, there's little about the need for putting the curse on the girl in order to get her in this situation which makes sense and the final resolution fails to follow through any of the usual methods featured here. These here do manage to hold it back somewhat, though there's still plenty of positives found here.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Adult Language and Nudity.

SnoopyStyle A Leprechaun on his 1000th birthday can choose any bride by making her sneeze 3 times unless someone says "God bless you". A man is enslaved by The Leprechaun who promises his freedom once he gets a bride. The bride turns out to be his daughter and he says "God bless you, my child". The Leprechaun promises to return in 1000 year to find his descendant. In present day L.A., Bridget has a boyfriend Cody who runs a Hollywood death tour. He is joined by his drunken uncle Morty. After being awaken with some blended whiskey, the Leprechaun hunts for his bride-to-be.The bride angle is something different from the first movie. It's not better but I'm willing to give them credit for trying. The Leprechaun continues to look silly and most importantly, not scary. This one doesn't have Jennifer Aniston or for that matter, any actor of interest. These novice actors have no charms whatsoever. The girl is not up to the demands of a lead and neither is the guy. They are definitely trying for the Freddy Krueger here but he established himself first as someone scary. This franchise has never been scary.

Christopher Smith I caught this for the first time in years as part of Syfy's Saint Patrick's Day movie marathon today and, despite expecting the absolute worst, I was somewhat surprised that it remains mildly entertaining. It's still not a great movie at all, but it's not quite as bad as its reputation. If nothing else, Leprechaun 2 is a major improvement upon the first, and definitely the best in the Leprechaun series.Director Rodman Flender opens the picture well enough with a prologue that takes place in Ireland. The prologue and the opening credits sequence are goofy, fun, ridiculous, and unfortunately, also the best part of the entire film. Once the two teenage protagonists are introduced, the next 75 minutes or so never measure up to what came before it. From seeing Rodman Flender's much more enjoyable later work like Idle Hands, it's hard to tell just how much of Leprechaun 2 is supposed to be intentionally bad. Warwick Davis is creepy as the evil leprechaun (though the make-up on his face looks like Play-Doh), but some of the other performances are so wooden that I wouldn't be surprised if Flender wanted the acting to be bad as part of the "B" movie tradition. As with the first Leprechaun flick, the characters are annoying which makes it hard to really care for any of them. The story itself is decent even without a whole lot of logic to the proceedings. What hurts the flick more than anything is the poor effects. Whether it's the fact that the film is almost twenty years old or the film didn't have the budget it probably needed, everything looks super cheap, so much so that I find it hard to believe this received a theatrical release. Scenes that could have been cool or scary end up laughable and groan-worthy. The big scenes that don't rely on special effect are rather well done. The bar scenes and the go-cart scenes are the most entertaining to watch, mainly since they are the few parts that show some creativity. Despite the many flaws, Leprechaun 2 is still better than it could have been considering that it's a sequel that was produced and released a mere year after the original. Besides, any movie that features random appearances by both Tony Cox (of Bad Santa fame) and Michael McDonald has at least a little value to it. Recommended for Saint Patrick's Day viewing only. 5/10