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Karo - A father and daughter buy a run down country home only to find out that someone packed a goddamn leprechaun into a crate in the basement and he only just now decides to try and escape instead of just calling out to the real estate agent or something and just fuck it.

The little green munchkin then proceeds to mete out bloody justice to those who took his pot o' gold. Man, if Lucky behaved this way he wouldn't always have those damn kids trying to steal his shitty breakfast cereal.

All the characters are terrible and unrealistic, none moreso than the little boy, who just might be the most stupidly written child character in the history of cinema. The leprechaun himself is not actually scary, but rather just some gross reject from the Garbage Pail Kids.

Not that any of this would really matter, given how every part of the movie is already completely idiotic. Four-leaf clovers are apparently now the bane of leprechauns, when has this ever been a thing? That's like saying the only way to kill Santa Claus is to pound a candy cane through his heart.

Add in a bunch of writers who can't decide whether they want this to be looney tunes or a horror flick and the result is a disastrous mismash of poorly compatible ideas with no direction, no tension, and absolutely no reason for existing.

Johnbobb - "*open on the bedroom from Friends*
Rachel: Hey, look at this gold I found
Ross: *enters, dressed as a Leprechaun*
Rachel: Ross! Leprechauns aren't real!
Ross: Gimme that gold, Rachel.
*audience laughs*
Ross: *stabs Rachel, takes gold*
Rachel: Oh, Ross!
*audience cheers*

I don't watch Friends and also I hate this movie"

JONA - If you want a not scary and unfunny experience dealing with a short person, you should just rather talk to me than watch this movie.

KBM - There are very few things that are more painful to sit through than a bad comedy and fuck me if this isn't one of the worst horror comedies I've ever seen. I felt sorry for Warwick Davis for being associated with this franchise, even though it seemed like he was having fun with the schlocky material. He may have been the only one. Jennifer Aniston is relegated to playing very broad early '90s feminist gags that are so stereotypical and dated it hurts. There's a Precocious Ten-Year-Old who truly scrapes the bottom of the child acting barrel, and seemingly just to add to the bang-your-head-against-the-wall factor, his best friend is a mentally challenged guy where the whole joke is that he's mentally challenged. You would think a movie where an evil leprechaun graphically kills a guy with a pogo stick would have at least something going for it, but it's all so incompetently done that by the time we reach the more... let's say creative... deaths, the movie has had a mind-numbing effect and you're just waiting for it to please be over so you can move on to doing something, anything else.

Scarlet - Bad. 6/100

Snake - Why I Chose It - Though maybe not as big or recognizable as Halloween or Friday the 13th, Leprechaun is a stalwart horror franchise with 5 sequels and a reboot. Lubdan the Leprechaun is arguably Warwick Davis' most well-known role, and Leprechaun also launched the film career of Jennifer Aniston. It has also become a minor part of St. Patrick's Day culture.

My Thoughts - Leprechauns are not funny, and they are definitely not scary. So, what is this movie then? It's a boring slog where practically nothing happens, and this really is one of the most stupid premises for a horror movie. Davis is decent I suppose, but the rest of the performances could be replaced with cardboard cut-outs and I wouldn't know the difference. There's a strange lack of killing here, which could've salvaged it a little. That wouldn't have saved it however from a startling lack of depth though.
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