Leprechaun: Le retour de l'elfe guerrier

A nice, little fairytale - but You get more if You read fairytales to the children.

Yes, You can laugh with Your kids on that leprechaun, You can enjoy the special effects, listen to that funny tunes... but better You "switch" to a fairytale book and let the childrens imagination run wild than Your TV set.

And then You will teach them the morals better.

This is one of the most vapid, poorly acted movies I have seen in years. I had to force myself to sit through the entire thing, and was quite proud when I made it to the end. . . though saddened by the fact that I had lost that chunk of my life to this travesty. My daughter who is 6 (and God knows the movie tastes of 6 year old girls runs pretty parallel to this dribble)could not even stay awake through it, and it is probably the first movie ever she had no desire to watch again. Yes, that's right, a 6 year old girl refused to sit through this movie a second time. In her words "it was stupid". I think that pretty much sums up this colossal waste of time, and film. It was stupid.

My favourite thing about this terrible film are the accents.. not since Natascha McElhone's attempt at the Irish accent in The Devil's Own have i heard such terrible Irish accents. The leprechaun clearly has some sort of strange Yorkshire accent (english), though in fairness he does sometimes sound a bit like he's from Cork - but most of the time he sounds like he's a grumpy little ginger man from coronation street.

The next great thing about the film - the location. Looks like it was filmed in California. Looks precisely nothing like Ireland, and the house which is central to it is clearly an American lodge. In the first five minutes there is an American Lincoln limousine with apparently Irish number-plates which show it to be from Kildare.

The story's great... it has it all - leprechauns from northern england, property development, American landscapes... all tied together with a brilliant 5 second refrain of trad flute music which is repeated over and over in an annoying loop. I love this film!

I love all things Irish and was in hopes this would be a clever movie about an enduring Irish Legend. Instead I saw another version of "Cruella DeVille" acting out an improbable (even for a fantasy) story. The actor who played the leprechaun was good but the rest of the cast seemed to be along for the ride. When the film ended the only feeling you had was "why did I waste my time?"

A kids movie that adults will have to smile at too. Flawed on the location and accent fronts and questionable when it comes to the cultural heritage of "the little people", the movie nonetheless delivers with slapstick fun, catchy Irish jigs and better-than-average special effects. A whimsical, charming treat for all the family, and Big Mick is excellent with it... to be sure, to be sure!