CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

jessegehrig Have you seen what human beings do to each other, I mean man, whats the point? Yeah I've been intoxicated and seen this movie more than once. I've passionately defended this movie and fantasized about making a Leprechaun western. We make choices and we live with them. Do you want to know the plot of this movie? The plot is humans dream, and those dreams fuel us to struggle for unattainable goals, goals that ultimately destroy us. We mark our achievements with meaningless baubles and then suffer from the hollowness of these baubles. Does the Leprechaun smoke pot? Yes. Is there nudity? I don't remember but probably. There are good scenes in this movie but they appear in spite of producers wishes, y'know like no one can entirely screw up a movie, some particle always shines. I mean at some point some one has to ask why expend the effort and money to make these movies, yes Warwick Davis gets something out of this as short actors are desperate for work, Hollywood has a bias, but what do you and I get out of it? Entertainment is a nice way of saying utter pointlessness.

Toronto85 Three up and coming rappers (Postmaster P, Stray Bullet, Butch) decide to rob the studio of a record label mogul, but they end up wakening the Leprechaun instead in "Leprechaun In The Hood". It begins with Ice T's character "Mack Daddy" and a friend who, will looking for gold, come across the leprechaun who is stone-like thanks to a magical gold chain wrapped around his neck. Mack Daddy takes the leprechaun's gold and the leprechaun "statue", and becomes a famous rap producer. Fast forward many years to our main cast of young rappers who are trying to make it big. Their audition for Mack Daddy fails, so they decide to rob him. Of course they end up bringing the Leprechaun to life, creating a lengthy chase around Compton. It's the leprechaun chasing the young men for his gold back, and Mack Daddy chasing them to get revenge for the robbery in this fifth installment of the Leprechaun series.Leprechaun in the Hood follows the same rules used in the third film. The gold chain put around the Lep's neck keeps him captured/stone-like, and the moment it comes off he is able to roam free. I liked that they followed some sort of a timeline, which the fourth Leprechaun failed at doing. We are also introduced to something new in this one - the Leprechaun's gold flute. The flute (when played) has the ability to temporarily stun other people in the room. It also has the ability to give the person whatever they want. For example, our group of rappers use it to make their listening audience LOVE their music when in reality it wouldn't have gotten such attention. This Leprechaun does well in that it actually develops the main character's! We feel for the guys as they are being pursued by the Mack and the evil Leprechaun, something that was missing in Leprechaun 4 and even the 3rd one to an extent. These men are trying to make it big to get out of the poverty stricken neighbourhood, and you feel that depressing undertone a lot in this one. The acting is alright, Ice-T being the big name of the film doesn't really have a MAJOR role, but serves his purpose. The three main characters do a decent job with Anthony Montgomery leading the way as good guy Postmaster P. There is quite a fair amount of gore in this one compared to the previous film, and it's actually well done. Overall, 'Leprechaun in the Hood' is an improvement to the space sequel. It punched some life to this franchise, BUT fails to recapture the laughs and campy fun that was found in the first three films. Oh well, at least the Leprechaun is back to rhyming his words after each kill...5/10

Boba_Fett1138 This movie really isn't much good but with its title "Leprechaun in the Hood" it became an instant cult-classic.In all truth and honesty, this movie is just plain bad. It's cheap, has a weak story but at least it has some entertainment value, which still keeps this movie somewhat watchable. It luckily doesn't take itself very seriously, which kept the movie still quite fun to watch at times.The story just doesn't make much sense and its simply really weak. The Leprechaun characters gets basically wasted in this movie and he's certainly less evil as a character, which is mostly due to the reason that he isn't that much in it. At times he just pops up but you feel that with only a few simple changes to the script, the Leprechaun character could had been cut out completely. I'm glad it didn't obviously, or else we would had to miss out on yet another fun Warwick Davis performances, though it seems he was a bit rusty in this. This movie got done 3 years after the previous sequel and he had done quite a few other movies and television stuff in between, unlike the previous 4 movies, which he pretty much did back to back. Seemed to me that he was still searching for the right tone for the character again throughout the movie.But at the same time it also is its silly story that still makes this movie mostly so fun to watch. It certainly has some cult value in it, with its rapping thugs, living in the hood, crossing paths with the little, green, Irish, Leprechaun. It's such an absurd and unlikely combination that it actually does work out. The movie has basically very little else going for it. It's not being a very compelling movie with strong characters, an intriguing, clever, original story, or any good horror or tension. Instead it's just being a silly, fun movie, that despite being a bad movie is still a somewhat watchable one, like basically all of the Leprechaun movies.All that it's missing is a Snoop Dogg cameo but at least it has Ice-T and Coolio in it to compensate for this.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

scurti7193 Leprechaun in the Hood contains everything a good movie should have:Ice-T pulling a baseball bat out of his afro to fight off a leprechaun.A leprechaun rap. "Lep in the hood come to do no good."Leprechaun/transvestite love scenes.Dialogue you won't be able to stop quoting: "A friend with weed is a friend indeed, but a friend with gold is the best I'm told."Three hapless heroes who defeat the villain with the help of "Leprechauns For Dummies" and by having him smoke some four leaf clovers."Oooh handy."The list goes on and on.Oh yeah, and don't forget to see "Leprechaun in Space."