Review of Leprechaun 3 (1995) by Vince K — 01 Dec 2009

I don't remember the Leprechaun being turned into stone in the last one, but that's how he begins in Leprechaun 3 - a stone statue kept in place by the magical medallion around his neck. He's dropped off at a Las Vegas pawn shop, where the owner immediately makes the mistake of removing the necklace, thus freeing the Leprechaun.

This time the only thing that can stop the Leprechaun is the medallion, and the whole wrought iron thing established in the second one is thrown out the window. And the cool twist this time is that whoever is in possession of his missing gold shilling can grant themselves one wish.

Leprechaun always seems to lose that 1 gold shilling out of his pot at the beginning of every movie, and the whole thing is always about him trying to get it back. It was kind of a good idea to set this one in Las Vegas, which thrills the Leprechaun with casinos and the chance to take everyone's gold.

The main characters are Scott, a young guy on his way to California to go to college, and this hot chick who is a magician's assistant. Scott makes a bad mistake by losing his 23 thousand dollar check gambling, but when he finds the Leprechaun's missing coin, he wins it all back and more with a simple wish.

This leads to many greedy people stealing the coin from eachother and making wishes that never end well, with the Leprechaun always arriving too late to get it back and killing it's previous owner.

The funniest one was where he enlarges a chick's breasts, ass, and lips until she explodes. But probably the silliest thing about the movie is when he bites Scott and accidentally bleeds into the wound, which slowly starts turning him into a Leprechaun.

No, he doesn't turn into a little person with good make-up effects, instead they glue a little hair to his face and give him a unibrow, and have him start talking in rhyming limmericks. Leprechaun 3 lacks the constant laughs of the 2nd one, suffers from a bad screenplay, but seeing Warwick Davis once again bring this fun character to life still makes it entertaining and worthwhile.

We're treated to another good death scene at the end. Was that actually a midget stunt person levitating with wire work completely on fire? Yes, yes it was.