FORMAT: BLU-RAY (REWATCH)
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
(As posted on October 20th, 2009)
Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) is back. This time he’s in Hollywood looking for a bride. He sets his sights on the virginal teenaged Bridget (Shevonne Durkin), much to the chagrin of her boyfriend Cody (Charlie Heath). Leprechaun chains her up in his magic tree house and prepares for his wedding while Cody desperately to convince his drunken Uncle Morty (Sandy Baron) that Leprechauns are real.
Leprechaun 2 is a step up from the first film in terms of production design. It’s a lot slicker looking and actually feels like a real movie. I can’t really say it’s traditionally what we would call a “good” movie, but I’ll be damned if it didn’t have me in stitches.
I think what makes Leprechaun 2 work is Baron’s performance as the drunken Uncle Morty. This guy is great. He looks and acts like George Carlin’s evil twin or something. His best scene comes when he tries to cheat Leprechaun out of his gold. (“I could ask for a million dollars… I could ask for a BILLION dollars… but no! I want your crummy pot of gold!”) Leprechaun gives him what he wants and makes his pot of gold magically appear in Morty’s belly! There are a lot of negative things you can say about this movie, but they are easily forgivable because the sight of a crock of gold magically appearing inside of an old dude’s stomach is fucking hilarious.
There’s also a great scene earlier in the picture where Morty gets into a drinking contest with Leprechaun. Afterwards, Leprechaun crawls into a coffee bar and drinks a bunch of java to sober up. When the obnoxious barista gets on his nerves, Leprechaun scalds him to death with an espresso machine!
Another death scene that gets some laughs, both intentional and otherwise comes when Leprechaun makes one of Cody’s friends think that Bridget is seducing him. She rips off her shirt and the guy moves in closer to her chest, unaware that it is just one of Leprechaun’s illusions and he is really putting his face into some whirring lawnmower blades. While this scene is funny enough as is, what makes it downright hysterical is the fact that it features what has to be hands down the worst body double in film history. Durkin obviously has pale skin and small breasts, but when she takes off her shirt, she miraculously has a dark tan and huge silicone implants. It becomes even more apparent when the editor keeps cutting back and forth from her face to her tits. Of course, her boobs are merely an illusion created by the Leprechaun, so it kinda makes sense that her tits wouldn’t match her body. Because of that, I guess I can give this scene a Mulligan. That still doesn’t mean it isn’t uproarious.
As you can tell, most of this movie is entertainingly stupid. Some of it is downright disturbing. Like the scene where Leprechaun threatens to consummate his wedding with Bridget and licks her face. (“Kiss me, I’m Irish!”) Then there’s one part that will just make you want to puke. Leprechaun he tells her, “We’ll have to make many changes to your face. The wee ones won’t suckle if you don’t look like them!”
Be glad this movie spared you the sight of Leprechaun babies suckling at the teat.
For whatever reason, Leprechaun 2 makes up a whole bunch of new rules regarding the Leprechaun. For example, he can only be killed by wrought iron, but in the first film it was a four-leaf clover that did him in. Leprechaun even has some stupid rules regarding marriage. He’ll only marry a woman who sneezes three times without someone saying, “God bless you”. (“She sneezes one, she sneezes twice; she’ll be my slave when she sneezes thrice!”)
The filmmakers also made some glaring continuity errors too. In the beginning, Leprechaun gets trapped inside a magic tree for a thousand years. But the first movie ended with him being trapped inside a well! He also said in the original that he was 600 years old, but he claims to be 2000 in this one. I hate it when they do shit like that.
A couple of inconsistencies aside, Leprechaun 2 is fun for the most part. The series was really gathering steam at this point, with Part 3 being the crown jewel of the franchise. It’s even better when you play this Suggested Drinking Game: Take a shot of Irish Whisky every time Leprechaun says, “I want me gold!”
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