There was a small part of me that kind of enjoyed the awfulness of the first movie, I obviously found out the amount of sequels that followed it, this was the first, and last, of them to be released in cinemas, I wasn't expecting any improvement in quality, I just wanted a different sort of scary movie when it was coming up to Halloween. Basically in medieval times, William O'Day (James Lancaster) is chased by a nasty Leprechaun (Warwick Davis), after he attempted to steal his pot of gold, he locks the young man in a collar and threatens to kill him if he tries to escape. The Leprechaun tells William that today, St. Patrick's Day, it his 1,000th birthday, this means he can choose any woman to be his bride, provided the woman sneezes thrice and no one says "God bless you", he promises to release William once he is married. But the woman he chooses happens to be William's daughter, the Leprechaun uses his magic to cause her to sneeze, but William intervenes saying "God bless you, my child", therefore denying the Leprechaun his bride. William tries to run, but the Leprechaun uses his magic on the collar to lift him up and break up neck, but not before cursing him, saying he will marry his descendant in in a thousand years, his daughter discovers his corpse. In present day Los Angeles, the next descendant of the O'Day bloodline sixteen-year-old Bridget Callum (Shevonne Durkin), she is dating Cody Ingalls (Charlie Heath), who with his alcoholic scam artist uncle Morty, also his legal guardian (Sandy Baron), runs a rip-off celebrity ghost hunting tour. The Leprechaun is brought into present day by a homeless man with a gold tooth, which the Leprechaun pulls out, and he steals his bottle of whiskey, he also bites off the finger of talent agent (Mark Kiely) to steal his gold ring. Following an argument with Cody, Bridget flirts with and goes on a date with sleazy Ian (Adam Biesk), after which he shows his true colours and tries to seduce her outside her home, but she refuses and punches him. Ian is about to leave, then suddenly the garage door opens, Bridget walks forward and apologises, she then seductively lures him into the garage, she slowly removes her clothes, the Leprechaun is there watching, in fact he has used his magic to trick Ian into thinking Bridget is seducing him, he leans forward to kiss the invisible Bridget, unaware that he is actually leaning into an overturned lawnmower with the blades spinning, blood splatters everywhere as the blades make contact with his face. Shortly afterwards, Cody appears at the door to apologise and give Bridget a bunch of flowers, this causes her to sneeze, as she is about to sneeze a third time, he is about to say "God bless you", but Leprechaun stops him, strangling him with a telephone cord. The Leprechaun grabs Bridget and takes her to his lair, Cody notices that he dropped one of his gold coins before leaving, the Leprechaun invites her to be intimate with him, but she refuses him, he tells her that he will modify her body in order to force her into bear his children, either by rape or sexual intercourse if she will ever consent. The Leprechaun tries to seduce her with his gold, but notices one coin is missing, and sets out to find it. Bridget begs him to let her go and says she wants to please him, he summons a red dress and instructs her to be wearing it when he returns, he licks her face before leaving, and tells her any attempt to escape is hopeless. Bridget tries the numerous passage ways to find a way out of the Leprechaun's lair, but she finds it is enchanted, it is a maze with no exit unless the Leprechaun wills it to be so, she finds the magic toying with her, and rocks she lays to mark her steps disappear, so she saves an awl to try and kill the Leprechaun for later. After being questioned by police, Cody tells Morty what happened, Morty initially thinks he is crazy, but believes him when they escape the Leprechaun trying to attack them. Morty and Cody go to a bar, filled with many little people dressed as leprechauns to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, while there an African-American Leprechaun (Tony Cox) offers him a golden chocolate coin. The Leprechaun appears, Morty challenges him to a drinking contest in honour of his wedding, while the Leprechaun drinks pure whiskey, Morty is actually drinking soda and water, the Leprechaun becomes extremely drunk, allowing Morty and Cody to escape. The Leprechaun sobers up in a coffee shop and murders a waiter (Michael McDonald) making fun of his size and speech, he scolds him to death using hot steam from a coffee machine. When the Leprechaun returns, Morty and Cody manage to trap him inside a wrought iron safe, this is the only thing that can harm the creature, Morty takes advantage of the opportunity to claim three wishes and locks Cody in the store room. His first wish is for the Leprechaun's gold, his stomach suddenly grotesquely stretches, the gold has been put inside him, for being greedy, Morty wishes the Leprechaun out of the safe to help him, and his third wish is for the gold to removed from his stomach, so the Leprechaun tears open his stomach, killing him. Cody manages to break out of the store room, a security guard enters, but the Leprechaun tricks him with his Bridget impersonation, he is killed by being run over twice by a go-kart. The Leprechaun demands his gold coin back, but Cody realises that as long as he holds it, the Leprechaun cannot harm him, leading him to run to the Leprechaun's lair to rescue Bridget. The Leprechaun returns to his lair and anticipates Cody's arrival, Bridget in the red dress pretends she has accepted her fate, she attempts to stab him with the awl, but it is not made of wrought iron, so it breaks. The Leprechaun is enraged, as it was favourite awl given to him by his father, he is about to punish Bridget, but he hears Cody's car approaching, so he puts a collar around her and bounds her to a tree. The Leprechaun chases Cody, while Bridget breaks the collar using the broken awl, she and Cody eventually reunite and try to escape, but are still running in circles due to the enchanted passageways. Bridget convinces Cody that giving the coin back to the Leprechaun will stop him chasing them, Cody is reluctant as it is the only keeping him alive, she kisses him, and he hands to her, but this is not the real Bridget, the Leprechaun has tricked him. The real Bridget appears and tells the Leprechaun she will go with him if he does not Cody, he agrees and knocks Cody across the room, he then starts to lead her to his wedding bed. Suddenly Cody stabs the Leprechaun through his chest with an iron crowbar, Cody points out that the gold coin he gave him was in fact made of chocolate, as the Leprechaun dies, his magic over the lair dies, revealing the exit for Cody and Bridget. They escape the lair, and the Leprechaun explodes behind them, Bridget questions how he knew it was not her kissing him, he tells her she kisses differently, and he decides it is not worth keeping the gold coin, he throws it away. Also starring Clint Howard as The Tourist, Kimmy Robertson as Tourist's Girlfriend and Samantha Davis (Warwick's wife) as Bar Patron. Davis again relishes being the mischievous Irish monster, he is still very protective of his gold, and does some shoe polishing, and still makes cheeky quips and talks in rhymes. Apart from Davis, the rest of the actors are naff and given dreadful dialogue, this time the story is a little less about the gold, it is about the creature going on a killing spree while finding himself a bride, hence why it is sometimes referred to by the title One Wedding and Lots of Funerals, as it came out the same year as Four Weddings and a Funeral, you can laugh mostly at how bad it is, there is slight fun to be had, but it is another lacklustre horror comedy. Pretty poor!
Review of Leprechaun 2
