Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood
When Emily Woodrow and her friends happen on a treasure chest full of gold coins, they fail to to heed the warnings of a wise old psychic who had foretold that they would encounter trouble with a very nasty and protective Leprechaun.
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- Cast:
- Warwick Davis , Tangi Miller , Laz Alonso , Page Kennedy , Donzaleigh Abernathy , Shiek Mahmud-Bey , Sticky Fingaz
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Waste of time
The Worst Film Ever
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Once again the little Leprechaun revives & is on the hunt for the people that have stolen his gold. This installment is a little slow at first but once it gets going it's pretty enjoyable. Strangely the Leprechaun doesn't rhyme in this one, which is a shame, but he does get high (really funny) & his violence, especially towards women, appears nastier than before. Certainly an improvement on the dreadful part 5, it's an OK watch for fans of the series.
Struggling to make ends meet, a woman and her friends stumble upon the leprechaun's pot of gold and use it to improve their lives only to incur the wrath of the leprechaun who tears apart the hood trying to find the missing gold.This was a far better sequel than expected. One of the major improvements over the preceding efforts is how comfortable and easy- going this one is with the urban setting for a franchise story, as there's little here that feels at odds with the rest of the franchise. Dropping the hip-hop flavored story here for a more universal story about their poor environment and struggling to survive day-to-day in that environment, coming across the gold and it's sudden wealth that offers them an escape only for the leprechaun to exact revenge makes for a much more cohesive fit into the other entries while using that urban setting here to help sell the poverty and desperation in a slightly-different-yet-still- familiar angle. That here really helps the rest of the action as the leprechaun fits into the story better and causes the encounters to stand out a little more. The opening in the under-construction complex gets this off to a fine start, the party scenes of the leprechaun maneuvering through the different groups and enjoying himself in their company quite nicely and the big scenes of him going through the periphery characters of the story here all give this one some really enjoyable scenes. That's not to take into account the film's rather fun highlights offerings here with the creature's appearance at her home where it stalks her through the house and finally into the bathroom which is a thrilling sequence, his later confrontation in her friends' house over the gold is a really exciting series of stalking scenes with brawling and the encounter along the aqueduct where he deals with the cops to get to them and the resulting encounter with the thugs which is another fun action-packed encounter taking out the thugs waiting for them all being really enjoyable and exciting. This one also manages to get in some really great fun overall here with the finale as the action picks up considerably as there's numerous full-on confrontations in the apartment out onto the roof where they get into the first extended battle that leads nicely into the rather thrilling encounter down in the boiler room that initially settles into the big shock-finish that showcases a spectacular false death with the grand finale afterwards really making this one feature such a rousing and energetic finale which really goes nicely for the film's overall action quotient. As all these encounters provide the film with plenty of graphic, gory kills as this one features a huge body count more than the other entries, these here all manage to make for a really fun time that holds off the lone flaws here. Though this one manages more than the others to really get the indestructible nature of the leprechaun, it does so by forsaking the very things that made him a unique villain as there's no tricks, no wishes or anything remotely supernatural about him, much like the previous entry. This one only makes us aware that he's a leprechaun through size and failure to die as every other time here it doesn't really do much to counter that. The cheesiness is something that might bother some, but these are the film's issues.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and lots of drug use and references.
Why ?! I can ask it too many times to the film studios but why did even make a 6th one ? And also one who is almost a copy of the previous one. I would have understand that decision if the 5th one was a success, but it was terrible. And this one was, if possible, more terrible than the last one.What can you further about the last part of this terrible franchise. The storyline was again a huge fail. The leprechaun has a few moment and is defeated again so easily, they can blow him of the roof without having any difficulties with killing it.The acting was to laugh about as well so I rate this film 1/10
The original ''Leprechaun'' was a classic. ''Leprechaun 2'' added a delightful wedding component for the ladies. Next came the Vegas-based ''Leprechaun 3'' and the space-based ''Leprechaun 4'' -- "home" and "run" respectively. Then it was back to Earth for ''Leprechaun in the Hood'', which answered the age old question: "What would happen if a magical killer leprechaun was unleashed in Compton?" Everything was going swimmingly. That is, until the producers decided to sacrifice quality and go for the quick buck. In ''Back 2 tha Hood'', we have a leprechaun taking massive bong hits, battling drive-by gangsters, and being dragged beneath low-riders. The dignity and subtlety of the first five films? Gone. Pawned off for a series of cheap gags and black stereotypes. Like that infamous pot of gold, the producers have stolen something sacred. And it's we, the fans, who've paid the price.