Strong and Moving!

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Hoping to break into the music business, a rap group inadvertently steals a magical flute from a mischievous leprechaun, reviving him in the process who sets out on a rampage to get it back and forcing them to stop him.This one here wasn't that bad and had enough going for it to be entertaining. One of the better feature here comes from the absolutely cheesy and somewhat ridiculous storyline in here that really makes no sense why this plays out as it does. Transposing an Irish leprechaun into an urban, predominantly African-American neighborhood makes so little sense on the surface of it that there's a sense of cheesy giddiness at watching this go through the community which takes this one to a wholly different level than the other entries in the series. There's even more to like here with the film's few action set-pieces throughout here which gives this a nice mixture of cheesy action and great thrilling moments for a really enjoyable time here. The opening release of the creature down in the subway room as he kills his assistant before turning to him and gets stopped through circumstance gets this off to a fine start, the actual robbery here comes off in a fine matter with the resulting gunfight to get away being rather thrilling and the encounter in the church where they all stumble across each other and each group fights it out with each other in order to get away, all resulting in in some rather fun and engaging action here that manages to fall in line nicely with the rest of the franchise's action. Along with the nice blood and gore in the kills, these here are enough to make this one enjoyable enough to hold out over the few flaws. The film's biggest issue is the fact that there's a lot of time spent on integrating the leprechaun into this particular environment by overloading the rap genre in here to the point of getting irritating with all the different segments here that features show-stopping moments to get them performed. The incessant gangster talk and rap battles that constantly feature continuous allusions to that lifestyle which eats up so much time here that there's almost no screen-time for the leprechaun's antics. He hardly ever tricks people in what he does, appears more as a straightforward killer with supernatural powers and doesn't really do much here to suggest he was integral to the film when any supernatural avenger would've been inserted into the film without any difficulty. This here is the main issue with this one as there's some problems the film can't really recover from. Despite the few positives in here being quite good.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and continuous drug use.

A comedy that tries ever so hard to be funny but which fails at every step, LEPRECHAUN IN THE HOOD turns out to be way worse than the original, Jennifer Aniston-starring movie (I haven't as yet watched any of the movies in between, but on the strength of this I doubt I'll bother). It's a micro-budgeted attempt at crossing a traditional comedy horror with a blaxploitation movie, and it really is that bad.Warwick Davis (who REALLY must have needed the money) returns to the fold as the Irish menace who sets his sight on some black rappers and gangsters. Ice-T is the only recognisable actor in the cast, and you wonder what bills HE needed to pay to be reduced to appearing in this. Everything about the film is horrible: the jokes fall flat, the performances are terrible, and by this stage there's no horror left in the premise. Just dodgy effects and dumb jokes, repeated for an hour and a half. Avoid it like the plague.

The leprechaun is back, and this time he is in the hood!With this fifth installment of the "Leprechaun" series, they have ventured a bit back towards what they had in parts 1 and 2, and certainly stepped it up a notch compared to parts 3 and 4. But still, "Leprechaun in the Hood" is not a horror movie. It has way too much comedy in it for that. But still it was a better experience than parts 3 and 4.I personally thought there was a bit too much focus on the music and the singing in this movie, and that (for me) brought down the entertainment value. Now, don't get me wrong, the movie is not bad, not at all, but it wasn't super great either. It is a nice little (no pun intended) comedy with elements of horror in it. Just with a tad too much music and singing.The story in "Leprechaun in the Hood" is basically the same as in all previous four movies. Someone stumbles upon the leprechaun's pot of gold, takes something from it and the leprechaun chases after his property, killing everyone in his path and throwing off quirky rhyming limericks.And hats off for Warwick Davis, because he really did it nicely in all five movies, he truly is the leprechaun and could not be replaced.

Not entirely sure why the creators thought another sequel to this horsecrap series would be a profit maker. Surely after the anti success of all previous films, the producers would have come up with either; A) a better idea for a film, e.g. Ironman vs lake placid. Or a Jeremy Kyle movie where Jeremy himself finally discovers for himself that he is, as every else has known for years, a detestable figure of unimaginable hatred and consequently hangs himself, with the autopsy revealing an inordinate amount of heroine in his blood and thus, fails the live drugs test. Or, B) a sequel to Leprechaun in da hood called, 'Leprechaun in Palestine'. The film would basically be a documentary where Warwick Davis is sent to palestine on a peace march, wearing a t-shirt that (unknown to him) has 'Israel 4eve' printed on the back. The result would be a hilarious chase movie concluding with a climax where angry Palestinians hang Warwick up by his feet and encourage homeless children to batter him with sticks with the promise that 'the screaming pinata' will explode with sweets and chocolate.