“I mean, it’s fine, but the thing about Happy is that it’s got a premise, tough-as-nails Frank Miller character sees a floating unicorn, and that’s pretty much it. Add a floating blue unicorn to That Yellow Bastard, and it’s worth a laugh, but not a whole lot of interesting stuff happens with it.
It’s sort of like the Leprechaun movies. “Evil Leprechaun” is almost enough for one movie, and it goes on for 6? I don’t count the Hornswaggle entries into the series, once Leprechaun went to the hood a couple times, I was set.
I have to be honest, in reality, I tapped out after Leprechaun 4, which was the one in space, but Leprechaun 3 is probably the worst of the original saga. It’s SO lazy. They got permits, maybe, to film in Vegas, but mostly they just filmed characters crossing the street in front of big casinos on their way to a shithole casino.
Okay, yep, I just looked it up: it was filmed in LA with one day of shooting in Vegas.
Also, the guy who wrote the script for Leprechaun 3 had never seen the previous 2 movies, which probably explains why Leprechaun grants wishes, why he was turned into a stone statue between movies somehow, for some reason, why a Leprechaun can bite you and turn you into a Leprechaun, and, well, it explains quite a bit.
On one hand, maybe it’s for the best? If the guy watched the previous two, he might’ve repeated their mistakes. On the other hand, the worst mistake was going for a second bite of that apple, so I guess if you watched the first two before writing the script for the third, I’m not sure what you could walk away with other than “Making this movie is a mistake.”
I mean, 4 is in space, there are space marines, the leprechaun is trying to marry a space princess…but at least some stuff is happening. It’s not without incident.
Leprechaun 4 ALSO has the funniest excuse I’ve ever seen for putting boobs in a horror movie: The space princess flashes everyone because in her culture, that’s a threat, like the kiss of death or something. Perfect.
4 looks like shit, it makes no goddamn sense, but it beats 3 on pure ambition. If a movie is going to be terrible, it might as well be terrible in space.”