This was the sixth and final installment that starred Warwick Davis in the titular role.
As the title says, the movie partially recycles the plot from the previous film. A Los Angeles priest named Father Jacob engages Lubdan the Leprechaun in battle and then banishes him to hell before dying of his wounds. A year later, as par the course, the gold is discovered in a sinkhole by a group of four friends consisting of a drug dealing motorcyclist named Rory (Laz Alonso), his wimpy pot-head friend Jamie (Page Kennedy), Jamies girlfriend Lisa (Sherrie Jackson), and Rory’s ex-girlfriend Emily, who ignored the previous warnings from a psychic named Esmeralda (Donzaleigh Abernathy). The four friends split the money and spend it recklessly, awakening Leprechaun once again and setting him on yet another rampage throughout Los Angeles to reclaim his gold.
Like the three protagonists in the last movie, the main cast isn’t very likeable. Rory is a drug-dealer, Jamie is a dumb, whiny pothead, and Lisa seems like a gold-digger. Only Emily is sympathetic and wants to get out of the hood and go to college, but even she’s far from a saint. The rest of the cast are just nasty, one-dimensional jerks and extras set up to be killed by the Leprechaun, like a couple of fat beauty salon customers who mock Emily’s ambitions, and some gang members led by Watson (Shiek Mahmud-Bey), who lacks any of the charisma that Ice-T presented as Mack Daddy in the last movie.
As always, Warwick is a riot to watch as he supplies 90% of the films humor. This time around, he’s surprisingly easygoing, usually only killing when he’s angry. We see him happily smoke pot with some guy before he notices that he has one of his coins, and even politely asks Watson and a cop for his gold back before they provoke him into violence. He’s way more likeable and sympathetic than the four protagonists.
The movie maintains its gory horror comedy genre; we see officer Whitaker get his leg ripped off by the Leprechaun and then weakly hopping over demanding it back before bleeding to death and the reused joke of the Leprechaun having his eye gouged out during a fight with Emily. Other than that, we got more cartoonish and ridiculous humor, like Leppy getting high off pot then getting hit in the face with a refrigerator door and then knocked into it while he’s got the munchies.
Of course, the film is so silly and idiotic, you can’t take it seriously. Even so, it’s still funny as hell and not at all scary. I think it’s a little better than the fifth movie, but that’s not saying much. Still, if you’re bored and a fan of cheesy, low-quality horror comedy, give this one a watch.
My Score! - 36%
Plot and Storyline - 38%
Structure - 34%
Engagement - 36%
Plausibility - 37%
Acting and Performances - 34%
36%
Not much better than the last one.
