Leprechaun 6 : Le Retour

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.

Saw this for the first time few months back while on a marathon of the series. The film is once again set in the hip hop area but nowhere connected with the earlier one. Here we get to see the origins of leprechauns in animation. In the present day we see a priest gets hold of the gold while managing to send off the leprechaun back to the hell pit before succumbing to his injuries. His intention of building a youth centre gets sidelined due to his untimely death. One year later few friends enjoying a barbecue at an abandoned youth centre discovers the leprechaun's gold and they use it to fulfill their fantasies unaware that none can enjoy the leprechaun's gold. Jokes n nudity is missing but it has some gore but nothing memorable. Stabbing by a bong, jaw gets removed, stabbing by a flashlight, a heart gets ripped off but the best is the ripping off the entire leg of a karate kicker. This time our leprechaun does get a beating, he gets kicked, he gets mowed down by a bike n later by a car, his eyeball gets removed, he gets shot by a shot gun, automatic machine guns n a pistol, he is punched, fried n concretised in a pool of cement.

Leprechaun In Tha Hood (2000) was arguably the worst of the Leprechaun movies (Except the remake) so another one had me fearing the worst.

This was also the last official Leprechaun movie, the last one to feature Warwick Davis and it's hardly a fitting end for the little fella.

It tells the story of a group who find the Leprecauns gold and become stalked by him. Pretty formulaic stuff, but the main difference here is how dark is.

The Leprechaun movies are comedy horrors and aren't to be taken seriously, with over the top death scenes and regular quips they are supposed to be silly fun. This has minimal comedy, Leprechaun doesn't quip and the deaths are far from comedic. That was a really strange decision by it's creators and in this guys opinion and a really really stupid one.

If you enjoyed Leprechaun In Tha Hood you might enjoy this but as a final entry to the series this was somewhat undeserving.

The Good:

Has its moments

The Bad:

The lack of comedy hurts the film

I struggled to care about anyone

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

No Leprechauns were harmed in the making of this motion picture. The Leprechauns featured in this production were handled with care and concern for their safety and well-being

The evil Leprechaun is back to reclaim his gold but this time he's got to resist the temptation of... smoking a bong?!? Leprechaun meets the boyz in the hood and proves that he's got what it takes to be the baddest mofo around. Lep is back to the hood and up to no good... again.

I'm not an avid Leprechaun fan. In fact, I've never paid much attention to these movies until this year came around. I've seen Leprechaun 1, 2, 3 and now 6 (Back 2 Tha Hood) and I'd say that "Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood" would have to be the best of the series. I had seen some parts of part 3 and about half of Leprechaun 4 a couple of years ago but I don't think I'd seen enough to pass judgment.

What attracts me to this film the most is that it's so different from the rest of the series. When I say this, I'm thinking of how Jason X was to the rest of the Jason movies. I mean, the Leprechaun isn't used to dealing with these smart-ass ghetto thugs. The jokes used in the movie aren't very original and are either hit or miss. You either like this kind of humor or just think that it's been done before and move on. For me, it was a guilty pleasure.

None of the characters in this movie are likable except for the Leprechaun, but if he wasn't likable, he wouldn't have gotten to this many sequels, would he? For the most part, I was happy to see these smart-asses get beaten up and impaled by bongs, stabbed with sharp objects and all harmful acts that happened during the movie. Some of the slow motion was well-placed and made the film evermore funny (i.e. Lep's eye incident) but for the most part, it didn't suit the movie all that well but didn't really harm it either..

The Leprechaun looked so much better in this film, he looks a lot creepier than he used to. Every time I'd see a Leprechaun film, I'd wonder if people actually got scared of him because he was always so comical with his appearance and annoying rhymes. Luckily, I only remember the Leprechaun blubbering out one rhyme in this movie which was a welcomed change, instead of rolling my eyes at another lame one-rhymer.

When it all comes down to it, this is an average horror film but a good addition to the Leprechaun series. If you're bored and want some horror fun, check out this film because you got about a 50/50 chance of splitting your sides in laughter like I did or just staring blankly at the screen. I say, give it a chance.

The hairdresser Emily Woodrow (Tangi Miller) finds a fortune in golden coins and she shares the amount with her close friends. However, the owner is the evil Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) that returns from Hell to get his treasure back, killing each member of the greedy group.

"Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood" is silly, but funny in some moments. The problem is that the pothead and drug-dealer characters are non-likable and extremely ambitious, with the exception of Emily and Lisa; therefore the devilish Leprechaun becomes not as bad as he should be. The scene with the leg of the policeman is hilarious. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "O Duende Perverso" ("The Wicked Leprechaun")