Ireland, Middle Ages. The fearsome Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) is intent on marrying a beautiful and unsuspecting girl and, to celebrate the event, will set his slave free.
However, as soon as his captive realizes that the betrothed is his daughter, at the cost of his life, he manages to prevent the union.
A thousand years later the Leprechaun returns, still intent on finding himself a bride: the descendant of his beloved, named Bridget.
However, the girl already has a boyfriend named Cody (Charlie Heath), who lives with her cheating uncle Morty (Sandy Baron).
Second installment in the saga of the Irish leprechaun, made to ride the unexpected wave of success of the first film.
However Leprechaun 2 is not a sequel to the first film: this is the first canon to be created in the entire series. In fact, each subsequent chapter is completely independent of the others and devoid of any reference to other films in the saga. Each screenwriter was free to give the Leprechaun the characteristics he wanted. He is still an Irish leprechaun with great powers, red hair, a lover of gold and beautiful women, evil and (almost) unbeatable. But the ways to defeat him, his nature, and strength have been explained differently in each film, which, therefore, may not even be seen in sequence.
Having made these general points, it must be said that. Leprechaun 2 is the only film to have the leprechaun act, albeit for a few minutes, in his native land, and it is the only one that shows his usual abode (a fairy tree) in the dynamic finale.
Warwick Davis is always comfortable with his rhyming speech and his powers.
The film then has one merit over the progenitor: having a side story of some interest and well acted.
Most notable in the cast is comedian Sandy Baron, who plays the drunken uncle who challenges the Leprechaun to drinks. He is the same actor who appears, as himself, in Woody Allen's film Broadway Danny Rose (1984).
There are several comic gimmicks and a few interesting gore sequences, but in the middle part the pace somewhat drops resulting in more black comedy than true horror.
Not well at the box office: that is why the next four films will be released only for the home video market.
Costing $2 million, it recouped its budget domestically at a very low profit.
Review by Zick
