Leprechaun 2 (1994)

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Leprechaun 2 (1994) Starring: Warwick Davis, Charlie Heath, Shevonne Durkin, Sandy Baron, Clint Howard, Adam Biesk, James Lancaster, Linda Hopkins, Kimmy Robertson, and Tony Cox Directed By: Rodman Flender Review THIS TIME... LUCK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. Hello Kiddies your pal The Crypt-Critic here with so much gold and riches I'm surprised I don't have a bride yet. But then again I just hope she loves corny movies as much as I do heh he he. A thousand years ago, the Leprechaun left a bloody trail when he ripped through the countryside in search of his stolen gold. Now he's back in the big city using all of his deadly tricks to snare a girl named Bridget who is dating our protagonist Cody. When Cody goes to see Bridget after disappointing her by canceling a date Bridget is taken by the Leprechaun to be his bride. During that encounter Cody manages to obtain a piece of the Leprechauns gold. Now Cody and Marty must get to the Leprechauns tree to save Bridget. I'm not going to lie this movies bad, but damn it I've always thought of even the first Leprechaun and now this sequel as so bad it's good kind of movie, it's really corny it's really stupid but It does have one or two good things about it. The make-up effects are good on the Leprechaun and the acting isn't all that bad in my opinion I'm pretty sure when this was being filmed that the actors were clearly having a good time I mean Warwick Davis had to be having fun with this role if he came back for a sequel. As to why there made I'm pretty sure it's because well when horror movies made a comeback in the 80s and 90s with slashers and ghosts they always had a sequel and this was no exception. I especially love how everything in the film feels practical and no CG to be seen. Leprechaun 2 is not a good film in the slightest it's hokey, stupid, but with the make-up, practicality, and the acting to me ti's just so bad it's good.

As I wrote the review for Leprechaun 1, I shall write this one and with more enthusiasm, since this was way better. YES, this 2nd installment of the devilish little heathen known as The Leprechaun was cooler and better than the 1st one.The acting was a little more colorful and less dull than the original. It moves the setting from a droll backwoods scenery to a vivid but gloomy tourist part of the land of the free. The stars of this one actually tried their best to sell this plot and most of it goes to Sandy Baron as Morty, who you may recognize as Jack Klompus from the legendary show "Seinfeld". Anything Mr Baron did was awesome, he was a genuine character who always added his brash humor into any part he played. The Leprechaun, as always, did his part and sold the antagonistic delivery. Part of his charm is the way he rhymes and can actually command your attention with his creepy antics. In this movie, he returns after being ''killed'' in the original and searches for his long lost bride which he finds after a 1000 years and is a direct bloodline next of kin to the one he originally wanted back then. The movie is not much to analyze but it is fun to watch and makes an otherwise sketchy script work nicely. Don't put too much thought into it. If you see it on SyFy, treat yourself, you deserve a laugh and this movie is great at delivering it without overdoing the horror.

If you couldn't get into the spirit of the first one, I wouldn't bother with this one.The Leprechaun series is a special kind of series. I liked that they don't exactly follow the first one. The best comic books don't necessarily keep the same parameters; Silver Age Batman is not Christopher Nolan's. I liked that we are basically getting the same Leprechaun villain with a different back story and different powers/weaknesses. Leprechaun 2 has a couple of different things about it. I liked the fantasy based background story. The Leprechaun lore is explored in this one; it's more about the Leprechaun than the humans response to him. I'm willing to forgo the strangeness of a 1000 year old Leprechaun making his way from the Old World to the New World. I'm willing to forgo his adaptability to the ways of the modern world though he comes from the Dark Ages. I liked the silly rhyming lines spliced with unnecessary gore. It's nice to have some light- hearted comedy that takes me from point A to point B. Leprechaun is a threat, the good guys fight him, the story ends.

An evil leprechaun (Warwick Davis) is to take the daughter of his slave as a bride, but loses her when the slave sacrifices his life for her. One thousand years later, the leprechaun is determined to take the beautiful descendant of the woman for his bride.This is your standard 1990s horror sequel, not much different than the direction "Child's Play" or "Children of the Corn" took at this point. Not that the original was a terribly serious film, but it only goes downhill from here (should I even mention the Leprechaun in space or in the hood?) Whether you like this or not might depend on when you grew up. I was very much a child of 1990s, so the mid-90s films are a bit nostalgic for me. Are they good? Probably not. But 1993-1998 had a feel that has not been seen since -- this film falls in that category.