Review of Leprechaun (1993) by Cj G — 27 Apr 2012

Did people actually think this was scary? If so, shame on them. I was laughing at the parts that were suppose to be scary. I mean c'mon, a leprechaun? Leprechauns aren't scary. If I came face to face with one, I wouldn't run and scream, I'd tie him up and force him to tell me where his gold is, end of story.

But in this, the idiot characters are afraid of it. The plot is really just the leprechaun terrorizing the characters while he looks for his gold. It stars Jennifer Aniston as cliched damsel #184. Warwick Davis plays the Leprechaun and he actually does a decent job, considering the dialogue is weird and his character is annoying.

Going back to what I said about leprechauns not being scary, the suspense the director tries to build is pointless. The leprechaun looks ridiculous, nobody can take him seriously. His means of killing people are laughable.

(Though intentional or not, I'm still unsure of.) In one scene he kills a guy by bouncing him to death with a pogo stick. I'm not kidding, he bounces on a guys chest with a pogo stick until he dies.

At the point I just wanted to stop the movie and just throw it away, but considering I'm a glutton for bad luck, I figured things couldn't possibly get worse as the movie went along. I was kind of right; to be fair, most of the movie has its fair share of bad acting, cheesy scenes and painful plot devices, but there is one line that I actually think was kind of badass.

The leprechaun can only be killed by a four leaf clover (Failing in logic 101) and the youngest member of the characters (He's like 9) slingshots the clover onto the leprechaun. As he does so, he says this line: "Fuck you Lucky Charms!" I know my review doesn't come close to making the line as badass as it should, but look it up on Youtube, it's pretty cool.

It doesn't exactly make up for the rest of the film though. I'm almost embarrassed to have this movie in my DVD collection, but I figured it might look good since the movie has gained something of a cult following by certain moviegoers.

I'm just glad I'm not obligated to watch the countless sequels this movie has.