Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)

Director: Rob Spera

Starring: Warwick Davis, Ice-T

Run Time: 91 mins

Certificate: 18

 

Plot Outline: Three young rappers are looking for a big break but when a deal with a local pimp called Mack Daddy falls through, they decide to break into his apartment and steal some jewellery to get even. But one of them takes a medallion of an ugly-looking statue. The statue was in fact the Leprechaun and had been imprisoned by the medallion around his neck. But now he is released to go looking for the magical flute that Mack Daddy stole from him years earlier - and kill anyone who gets in his way.

The Review: Yes you read the title correct. Not content with conquering Las Vegas and space, the little Irish bugger now has his sights set on the toughest place of them all - "da hood." I guess it makes sense though because he's always talking in rhymes, just not of the rap sort. I'm sure Irish limericks go down a treat in the hood. With it's ridiculous premise and stereotyping like never before, the film is as bad as you would expect. It's Boyz in the Hood for the horror genre where everyone is the token black guy and the script consists of the likes of  "mothafucka" and "bitch." It's a film where all of the black characters are bad in some way, even the reverend at the church! It's a film where the Leprechaun smokes weed and turns hos into his own personal zombie hos. I mean I know the film doesn't take itself seriously and pokes fun at itself (just watch the end credits where the Leprechaun busts a move and raps along) but if you're just gonna take the piss, why bother making the film in the first place? Could have saved yourself some money and spent it on a better project. He's quite an annoying little git in this series but at least you've got to credit Warwick Davis for making the Leprechaun character stand out as some obnoxious little illegal immigrant. He can move from the sadistic to the camp and from the evil to the comedic pretty easily. Ice-T plays, well the stock Ice-T characters he's been playing for a while now. It's hardly what I'd call star power though although I bet someone was fooled into thinking this is an Ice-T vehicle.

Final Verdict: All da homies who watch dis' shit ain't gonna thank da director fo' wastin' their bling. OK that was probably a bad idea. The film sucks. Leprechauns and gangsta rappers don't mix. That's all you really need to know, bitch.

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