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Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997)

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Connections: Leprechaun

On a planet in a distant galaxy, a power hungry Leprechaun, holds a beautiful alien princess hostage in order to marry her for her royal title. With her title and his beloved gold, he'll be able to rule the universe. While making his maniacal plans, what he doesn't count on is an invading platoon of marines from Earth, to save the princess and foil his plans. An accomplished trickster, the Leprechaun stows himself away on the orbiting spaceship and wreaks havoc on the crew in an attempt to recapture his bride. --TMDb
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Review by Crispy
Added: January 16, 2008
As Billy Ray once said, "When a horror franchise runs out of steam, the natural thing to do is send the killer to space." Jason Voorhees, Pinhead and his merry band of cenobytes, and our black-hearted Leprechaun have all made the jump with mixed results. I found Jason X entertaining as hell, because it stuck to what it did best despite the new setting; whereas Hellraiser: Bloodline opted to defeat the purpose, and spend most of the movie in a flashback. Now, the Leprechaun series needed a serious overhaul and it turns out the trip to space did just the trick. Leprechaun 4 realizes the cheese factor inherit in the outer space idea and wallows in it, something it should have been doing all along with the killer leprechaun premise.

Once again, the leprechaun is out trying to get himself some action. He's kidnapped an alien princess, and bribes her with a table full of gold, because aliens don't sneeze. Once they're wed, the two plan to off her father and rule as king and queen of whatever. However, their plans are ruined by a group of space marines who have been tracking the leprechaun. He's able to take out one of them with a lightsaber, (I kid you not) but his comrades respond by chucking a grenade at the imp. Realizing his bride-to-be is about to be blown to bits, he dives on the explosive and takes the concussion himself; however the princess still loses her hand in the blast. As celebration for his kill, the marine who threw the grenade, Kowalski, takes a leak on the corpse. Pissing on a leprechaun seems to be akin to pissing on an electric fence, and a green blast shoots up the stream and shocks him. At the advice of the biologist, Tina, who has joined them for the mission, they take the princess back to their ship, where she demonstrates her unique regenerative abilities. This has more than piqued the interest of Dr. Mittenhand, an egomaniacal scientist who experience massive injuries in a past experiment, but the marines couldn't care less; they've been in the bar partying. While the marine, Books, is striking out with Tina, Kowalski and another chick marine have slipped out for some victory screwing. Remember the scene in Alien where the creature bursts through the guy's chest? Well, the leprechaun recreates this scene, jumping out of Kowalski's junk. In a refreshing change of pace, the leprechaun isn't running around yelling "I WANT ME GOLD!" Now, he's running around trying to get his bitch back, and the marines assigned to protect her would just as soon give her up, the only reason they're even trying is for a promised bonus by Mittenhand.

In a lot of ways, this is just as much a parody of Alien as it is a Leprechaun sequel. There's the aforementioned birthing scene, the group of marines, plus a lot of similarities at the end of the film that I'm not going to spoil. And these scenes are amazing in that eye-rolling way. And really, that's the kind of humor this movie strives to hit, something along the lines of the Wayans brother's spoofs, just to a lesser extreme. You got your lightsaber scene, you got your commanding sergeant who is also a cyborg, and yes, you got your alien princess, who may look like a hot human chick in a spiked bikini, but you know she's an alien because she's covered in glitter. And best of all, she comes from a society where death sentences are given by means of flashing. Interestingly enough, if I recall correctly, the evil little bastard isn't referred to as a "leprechaun" at all in the entire film, sparing us all from yet another "What the fuck are you?" "I'm a leprechaun, me lad/dear" exchange. Nor does he make so much as one rhyme. Double score.

Warwick Davis aside, the main roles of this film have seemingly all been upstaged by the supporting characters. Brent Jasmer, Jessica Collins, and Guy Siner are all just kind of meh. Same with Rebekah Carlton to be honest, but since she walked around wearing barely anything and less the whole time, I'll forgive her. But no, the real entertainment here come from the cyborg commanding sergeant, Metal Head Hooker, and the marine, Sticks; played by Tim Colceri and Miguel Nunez Jr. respectively. Colceri's performance seems to be somewhere between R. Lee Ermey and Major Payne, whereas Nunez was much more grounded, using his delivery to make his numerous wise ass comments some of the more memorable lines in the film.

Now, don't get me wrong, for all my praises, this is still a bad movie, but at the same time it's one of the best in the franchise. It finally realized how ridiculous it is, and stopped trying to be something its not. 8/10.
Nirrad #1: Nirrad - added January 16, 2008 at 10:19am
Doesn't a guy get his dick fried by pissing on the Leprechaun in this movie?
Crispy #2: Crispy - added January 16, 2008 at 12:24pm
"As celebration for his kill, the marine who threw the grenade, Kowalski, takes a leak on the corpse. Pissing on a leprechaun seems to be akin to pissing on an electric fence, and a green blast shoots up the stream and shocks him."
bluemeanie #3: bluemeanie - added January 16, 2008 at 3:19pm
I forgot all about my "Jason X" review. That was a damned good review if I do say so myself.
Nirrad #4: Nirrad - added January 16, 2008 at 3:20pm
Hahaha, yeah thats awesome. Dumb, but awesome. Thats one of the only scenes I remember. Oh, and maybe it's from another movie, but doesn't the guys dick get bigger and bigger then the Leprechaun comes out of it?
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