“This is one of those terrible movies that’s more fun to talk about than it is to watch.
It’s the hard thing about bad movies: when you describe them, they actually sound kind of fun. But it’s only because the description takes 5 minutes, and the actual run time of the movie is, well, more than 5 minutes.
The Leprechaun is inexplicably in space with a space princess, who he intends to marry for…some reason. Because she’s a space babe? I guess?
One thing I’ll give to the Leprechaun series, when it comes to changing the lore between movies, they’re just like, “Yeah, fuck it, whatever.”
Now, I thought for sure we were in for the answer to how Lep got into space, and I was SURE it was going to be a Planet of the Apes, Earth all along situation. But we never get any explanation. Which is, honestly, fine, because when you get right down to it, the Leprechaun makes no sense on Earth, so he doesn’t make LESS sense in space.
The movie gets a little tedious when it forgets what it is and tries to give us time with a group of rough and tough space marines that aren’t from Aliens.
A couple hilarious kills/reveals. I don’t know why, but put a shot in your movie where there’s a guy, then he’s a steaming skeleton, and I’ll laugh every time.
I think the problem with this movie is that it is probably the most ambitious, but it probably had a fairly low budget. Not as noticeable in the first three when the locations are farmhouse, crappy hotel, and so on. But when a spaceship is cheap, it looks it.
The Leprechaun does, however, magically go inside a guy’s dick, and when he becomes aroused, the Leprechaun bursts forth, which is probably one of the finer moments in Leprechaun history.
By the end, the movie is nuts, there’s a spider monster that I’m pretty sure they ripped off for Lost in Space (the movie), and the Leprechaun is turned enormous, and the heroine has to take off her pants and is wearing a woman’s one-piece swimsuit for the rest of the movie. Oh, and there’s a topless moment because showing your breasts, in the space princess’ culture, is like the kiss of death.
All sounds great right?
But…it’s just not the sum of its parts.
Oh, well. On to the hood! “