Leprechaun 2

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Lep decides to marry...regardless if the bride wants to or not.




I honestly asked myself earlier this morning why I was bothering sitting through Leprechaun 2 (1994) or why Trimark thought it was perfectly reasonable to greenlight this after the horrible first film. When you have Leprechaun (Warwick Davis having a grand ole time) riding around in a race car (designed of course to his specifications) trying to run somebody over because he took a coin from his pot o'gold, I guess the specific crowd this rotten apple is intended for is sure not me. But there was I just trying to maintain any interest in this putrid pile of stink for 90 minutes I could have spent on anything far more valuable than watching Leprechaun 2. So Leprechaun is looking for a bride and once in LA after the opening of the film starts in Ireland, he is denied his first marriage so a new girl comes into view much to his liking. He eventually captures her, using a neck collar to sure up his catch. She's held prisoner in this underground lair inside a tree somewhere on the outskirts of LA.


So the boyfriend and his greed-infested boozing roommate--who happen to run a "where the dead celebs in Hollywood live" ripoff tours, in a hearse no less--work to stop Warwick and his dastardly plan to marry and misshapen their comrade in order to satisfy his ideal of the perfect bride. That's it. Everything else is "leprechaun mischief" where the little green bastard's always up to no damn good. He plucks the gold tooth from a bum's mouth, rips off a business high roller's finger for a gold ring, manipulates through mental trickery a young man believing he is about to score but is instead taking a facial unto a lawnmower(!), and causes a coffee machine to melt a face with its heated steam! Absurd powers like what Warwick has provide the effects guys to develop bonkers kill scenes such as a wish granted causing the victim to get the leprechaun's pot o'gold "from inside out". How to explain this: the victim's stomach starts to bulge outward and he pleas for Lep to help him which means he has the pot and gold inside him!

The plot development of Lep's aversion to iron is a form of kryptonite that works to the advantage of the film's heroes. But when the film has Lep locked in an iron safe, dead to rites, it finds the most ludicrous means to allow him escape passage...the unbelievable avarice of a drunk looking to make off with Lep's loot. It is asking us to toss any last logic we carry around out the window...the whole franchise does this. The further this series went, the more it unquestionably goes off the deep end. I guess somebody thought it would be okay to keep Lep doing his thing in the hood and space, and Vegas. I guess crazier things have happened...