Leprechaun (1993)

Director: Mark Jones

Starring: Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston

Run Time: 92 mins

Certificate: 15

 

Plot Outline: When a leprechaun's pot of gold is stolen, he hunts down the thieves and kills them to get his gold back.

The Review: OK for those of you who've ever seen Wayne's World 2, you'll remember the skit where Wayne pretends to be the leprechaun to scare Garth and does a really cheesy impression of the little Irish fellow. Well unfortunately for me, I couldn't get that amusing caricature out of my head when I sat down to watch this. In fact Wayne's impression was a lot scarier than this little bugger. He's too hard to take seriously enough as a bad guy because a) he's a short arse and b) he's too damned funny dressed up and spouting one liners, most of which are offensively Irish-stereotype. Not that I'm complaining because it's just funny seeing how low someone will go to take a pop at another culture. However the leprechaun has super powers as well - he can appear and disappear at will, re-grow limbs, imitate voices, hotwire cars and a lot more. But with a shocking script at his disposal, poor Warwick Davis not only comes off sounding like a fool, but dressed up like one too. Jennifer Aniston must wish she'd never become famous because somewhere in the future this film will come back to haunt her. The film is really bad overall - like one of the later Nightmare on Elm Street sequels gone berserk with some little nut cake taking over Freddy's role. I can't believe this spawned numerous sequels.

Final Verdict: It's stupid, not very funny, not scary and a complete waste of time but for all of these reasons, you've got to watch it - someone's lucky charms ran out when this was made. And what review of this film would be a review without quoting the immortal lines of Wayne: "I'm the leprechaun! Don't try to steal me pot o' gold"

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