Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

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

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

BA_Harrison Director Mark Jones attempts to replicate the success of his 1993 light-hearted horror hit Leprechaun with yet another tongue-in-cheek effort featuring an ugly, ancient, diminutive, wise-cracking fairytale villain; instead of 'I need me gold?', it's 'I want the baby John', wicked goblin Rumplestiltskin being more concerned with collecting the soul of an infant than in gathering up the shiny yellow stuff.Jones opens his film in the 1400s, somewhere in Europe, with Rumplestiltskin (Max Grodénchik) being pursued by angry villagers who are a little upset about his baby-stealing ways. As punishment, the pointy-eared chap is turned into a stone figurine and thrown into the sea. Cut to the present, and the hideous statuette is now on sale in a dusty old antiques shop in Los Angeles, where it catches the eye of recently bereaved cop's wife Shelley (Kim Johnston Ulrich); clearly doing alright on her widow's pension, Shelley buys the ugly effigy, but comes to regret her decision after she makes a wish whilst holding her new purchase: Rumplestiltskin, revived by Shelley's tears, makes her dream come true (granting her a brief reunion with her dead husband), but wants her baby son John in payment for services rendered.Rumplestilitskin is a reasonably entertaining slice of mid-90s trash: the script is suitably silly, the pacing reasonably fast, the gore good 'n' cheesy, and the dialogue delightfully daft ("F**keth me!"), with dumb but fun highlights including Rumpel going all Easy Rider on a Harley, and a desert buggy versus truck highway chase scene between Rumpel and unlikely hero Max (Tommy Blaze) that ends with a surprisingly decent crash/explosion. Essentially, it's a Leprechaun movie in all but name, and should prove passable entertainment for any fan of Warwick Davies' long-running franchise.That said, if I were forced to choose between Leprechaun and Rumplestiltskin, I'd have to go with the cheeky Oirish chappie's first outing, partly because Davies makes for a more memorable monster than Grodénchik, but mostly because Davies' co-star was a young Jennifer Aniston. Kim Johnston Ulrich is pretty, but she's no Aniston (although, unlike the Friends star, she does provide some welcome nudity).

Isaiah Freehling Well let's start by saying that this is a B-Rated movie. No doubt. It is hardly low budget however. The semi-truck chase scene shows that it isn't as low budget as people have reviewed it to be.The pace of story is great in the first act up until the half of the second act. After Rumpel steals a motorcycle from a biker that looks like Kris Kristofferson, it is so awful as far as character acting and story go, that everything goes down hill.While watching, I thought to myself, the actor that plays Rumpel acts exactly like a Ferengi from the Star Trek universe. Come to find out, the actor plays Rom in DS9. Go figure...It is very predictable, filled with one-liners, stiff acting and a played out plot.I will praise the cringing stabbings (The female protagonist stabs Rumpel right in the dome with a kitchen knife as well as shoving a broken broom stick down his throat) the harsh use of the B-Word and the original musical score.All in all I believe it really is an okay movie. I was checked out in the second half of the movie and was engaged in playing Candy Crush.Oh!! And it is hilarious to hear the tag line of this movie uttered by Rumpel in the climax, "This ain't no fairytale." Wow!

lost-in-limbo The video case that I read had "From the creators of Leprechaun" on the front cover and that alone should have been a good enough warning to what you might see. And it doesn't disappoint. To be honest, I don't like the aforementioned film and "Rumpelstiltskin" is pretty much in the same style from its fairytale theme, jokey attitude, chase elements, hideous 90s fashion, a touch of nastiness and an ugly, but charismatic little folklore monster (this time a Brothers Grimm creation). I found the Rumpelstilskin character to be a little less annoying, but this doesn't make it much better. Here we have the wicked gnome materialising in the 20th century, after being cursed by a witch which saw him turned into a stone many centuries ago. Now that he's been released and a wish has been granted, he goes after the widow's first born. Quite low-budget, as the story (a bedtime fairytale coming to life, which steals its thunder from "The Terminator"!) remains on the move flinging out many outrageous set-pieces (ending off in the usual atmospheric graveyard… the place to be), but never does it take itself that seriously. The story is clichéd, but there are few unusual plot developments. Max Grodénchik decked out in some decent looking make-up, cracks out the one-liners and can leave a bloody mess of destruction. What occurs is somewhat lousy, but sort of fun in a silly way. Kim Johnston Ulrich is affably strong in the central role (a lot better than the material asks for and deserves) and Tommy Blaze ("I'm an asshole. Not a hero") makes for a aggravating jerk with some outright scary looking shirts and a rapid mouth. Also appearing are Allyce Beasley, Jack McGee and Mark Holton. And there are plenty of bemused faces. Mark Jones direction is competent, but quite mechanical and unassuming with its lively pacing and performances' giving it's up and go. Tacky, but harmless horror comedy junk.

erik_macmillan This is one of my favourite movies of all time, it has it all! While i agree with most that the plot and acting is pretty weak, the truly classic one-liners more than make up for this. For instance, he utters "go thou thundering steed" while driving an articulated lorry, He takes out a cigar before announcing "ahh, another bad habit" and probably my favourite line in history "fucketh me"(he says this just before his truck crashes!).I saw this movie first in '97 and have bought it since and it has not lost any of its charm. All in all, if you want to have a laugh then you should definitely rent or buy this movie as it is hilarious! Hilariously bad(but in a good way).