Customer Reviews

Leprechaun 4 in Space [VHS]

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

I'm tired of all the senseless and downright mean Leprechaun bashing. This is a wonderful movie. It has everything that makes good horror flicks. Nudity? check. Decent Body Count? check. A manical villian with a good sense of humor? Double check. When the Leprechaun is reborn from a soldier's penis, you know this is going to be a rock'un sock'um movie.

The sub-plots are well thought out, and the movie moves along at a breakneck pace when it needs to. The mad scientist who is all head and part washing machine is almost as evil as the Leprechaun himself. The heroine is a blond cutie who is in fact a 'biological engineer'. She doesn't go topless, buyt the monster rips her pants off in the end and all youcan say to yourself as she runs around in her leotard is "Damn! That's a close shave!"

The Leprechaun is the real star though and he is here in all his splendor. He wants the princess (a blond bimbo who shows off her [***] for know reason during a speech that makes NO sense), his gold, and well...that's about it. You can't keep a good man down though. When you got a guy like Leprechaun on the screen pulling the strings, you know you're in for a [***] of a ride. Highly recommended.

ohhhhhhh, now the frickin leprechaun is in space. oh, ok. how the crap did he get there. with no good acting and a surprisingly funny bit involving a lightsaber, which is the only good thing, this one is a total flop of a movie in a floppy franchise. you also get to see the leprechaun grow enormous then he checks out his huge sausauge. what a waste.

The worst movie I have ever seen is Caress of the Vampire, which may not even qualify as movie, more like attempted vampire porn. However, before I saw that crap, my worst movie spot was definitely this one. I loved Leprechaun 1 and 2, didn't like 3, and HATED this one. It's so bad, but it's not funny bad, it's just... bad. The horrible production is the only thing even slightly entertaining. The space planet looks like cardboard and you can see the duct tape hanging off the space suits. It's so stupid, not funny, and just plain horrible. But if you want to see the whole series, this is one of them... so you are forced to watch this one too. Hopefully "Hood" will be better.

The first 3 Lep movies where ok. But this one, oh man...

PLOT
Leppy is (for some unknown reason) living on another planet and he has kidnapped some sort of alien-princess who he intends to marry to make himself king and then do away with her once he has the power. But marines come along and wreck Leps day when they blow him away and rescue his bride-to-be. Leppy regenerates on a space ship where the marines and a bunch of science guys are the crew, and of coarse starts killing them off in search of his bride-to-be, oh and his gold as usual. The marines fight back and blah blah blah.

OPINION
This movie sucks so badly on so many levels. Firstly the acting; Warrick Davis plays the Lep character just as well as he always has, it's just a shame he's been given some really crappy lines to say. Even tho Warrick is bringing the same character, he doesn't fit in well with the bad dialog and speech of the other zany characters in this film. The German doctor is a combination of German stereotypes, something like a combination between Hitler and Siegfried (Get Smart) with a lot of Corporal Clinger thrown together for one giant annoying voice and bad acting from the actor, who keeps letting his English accent slip through far too often. The Marine captain is a joke gone terribly wrong. You cant even laugh at how bad it is, it's just horrible and pathetic. The other actors are somewhat trying to act, but they're not going to have many future roles offered to them from this movie if they show this one on their resume's, thats for sure. I recognized one of them from Jason Takes Manhattan and he must be kicking himself he's been in two stinker horror flicks. The leading roles are a guy and a girl who you just won't care for and will be lucky if they ever have a starring role ever again after this.

EFFECTS: The effects are terrible. There is no death scene worth looking at here, 'cause they are all 'cut-away', shadow, kind of things meant to leave to your imagination, 'cause they think its better that way, but really it's because they spent all the money on the crappy CGI effects they put in.

I wouldn't even say the special effects of this movie where up to childrens television standards. They where REALLY bad effects. The opening scene of them landing on the planet during a thunderstorm around them as it pans to a cave they will stay in are super-dooper-BAD effects. I guess in 1997 they could claim the CGI technology wasn't so good... but who are they kidding??? these graphics looked knocked up in about 5 minutes even for 1997 standards. Not to forget pointing out the unnecessary nudity of a women who flashes her breasts (that aren't worth looking at) because on her planet that is how her people give you the their version of the "kiss of death" ... uh-huh, more like brainless producers adding something they THINK will take your mind off the bad acting going on.

Even at the end of the movie, for absolutely no reason what-so-ever, the heroine loses her pants and runs around in a one piece swimsuit... gimme a break, it's just PATHETIC to throw that in for the hell of it. It WONT attract ANYONE but a desperate 12 year old who is not old enough to by porn and his parents have installed 'net-nanny' on his computer. It's so lame. IT DOESN'T ADD ANYTHING TO THE MOVIE it takes it away.

No bonus features, thank god. I wouldn't have watched them anyhow. There is just the trailers of part 1, 2, 3 and 5.
This is the worst in the Leprechaun series. This whole movie should have been cut down to an hour and been a TV episode of some lame-horror show they would put on somewhere. Not good enough for The Twilight Zone or Tales From The Crypt..hell, not even Freddy's Nightmares! It wasn't scary and I wouldn't say there is any form of gore anywhere in the movie. Maybe they could make it an episode of Goosebumps seeing as how PG rated the whole thing is without the nudity that should be cut out for being the most useless and pathetic scene in the whole film. THATS WHAT GAVE IT AN R-RATING???...JUST THAT PATHETIC LITTLE UN-NEEDED SCENE?!?!?!?!?!?!? If that scene was to be cut out, its PG13!

If any of the actors in this film ever caught a leprechaun, their first wish would be that they would wish they could go back and say no to making this movie.

I cant dismiss it as the worst thing I've ever seen tho, I didn't get tired and want to turn it off, I did keep watching it, just to see how bad and lame it would get... and it didn't fail to satisfy that need.

I give it one and a half stars.

I am... MITTEN-SPIDER!!!

If you are opposed to a movie that includes that line, stop reading now. Even hardcore lep fans have been turned off by this amount of cheesiness.

Nearly everything in the movie is random. No explaination is even given for Lep being in space.

Random clothes get torn off.

There are even random, gratuitous breasts.

The acting and cinematography are on par with the Star Wars Christmas Special (that will automatically turn anyone off to this movie who has seen the Christmas special... that .02% of you).

That said it's a comedy goldmine. There's always an excuse to laugh at what's on the screen.

It has to be seen to believed, so I'll stop talking. If you're going to buy this movie, you know who you are.

In all honesty, I love the leprechaun movies. The first was so funny and Jennifer Aniston was a riot. But this movie was terrible. It probobly had the lowest budget of the 5. The sets were stupid and unrealistic and the acting was terrible. Especially be Rebecca Carlton, the princess. This movie was also really not well written and had no clever death scenes at all. The movie was simply pointless and oh yeh, the special effects... were even worse. Avoid this movie at all costs... If you want to see a really well-done, huge-budget horror flick in outer space, then rent Jason X, which is very entertaining. I love it.

Not really, but it's close. This time, Willow the Leprachuan lands in space. The movie doesn't tell you why or how (and frankly, no one cares) and proceeds to be a low-budget horror which isn't scary, but funny, sometimes unintentionally but not often enough unintentionally enough to make it worth a bad movie fan's time. Most pathetic moment: the nude scene. Basically an alien takes her top off; "Look upon them as you ponder the remainders of your worthless little lives." or something to that effect. Justification: "When (this alien race) shows you their breasts, it's a death sentence." ugh. Watch for the Leprachuan (noted for being tiny) balloon up to about 50 feet at the climactic end. Hopefully this ended the series.

...green cheeze that is, for here the Leprechaun goes on a rampage in space, and what a cosmic killing it is! While this Leprechaun film is the cheeziest of the five, it has some very funny moments- like when the mad doctor laughs at the little green 'monster', and then turns into a true 'Scorpion King'! You'll have to see it to believe it!

Third sequel in the 'Leprechaun' movies. In this entry, the evil Leprechaun wants to become the "King of the Galaxy", so he goes aboard a space shuttle and starts killing everyone who gets in his way, then he holds an alien (annoying) princess hostage until he marries her... and on and on. The special effects are gory & the acting is average.
Much better than part 3.

"Leprechaun 4" is the type of film that only the most learned, metaphysically hardy individuals should watch. As I sat in my easy chair, buffeted by the splendorous emanations pouring out of the television screen and speakers, I pondered whether my mind could handle the multifaceted plot, canyon deep characters, whipsaw fast pacing, and dialogue that surely issued from the mouth of that most benevolent deity watching over each and every one of us from his throne in the stars. Seriously, I am just funning around. We all know, as anyone who has sacrificed ninety minutes of his or her life to watch this dullsville production knows, that this movie reeks to high heaven. "Leprechaun 4" boasts Debbe Dunning, a group of space marines, and the actor who played that geeky guy in "Bachelor Party," the one with the huge glasses that lined up the female entertainment for the Tom Hanks character's hotel bash. Why doesn't "Leprechaun 4" work in any way, shape, or form? Because it boasts Debbe Dunning, a group of space marines, and the actor who played that geeky guy in "Bachelor Party," the one with the huge glasses that lined up the female entertainment for the Tom Hanks character's hotel bash. "Leprechaun 4" ought to come with a syringe full of Thorazine because that's the only way anyone will get through this one without significant mental scarring.

At some point in the future, a group of space marines (a blatant rip-off of "Aliens," obviously, but who cares at this point?) ends up battling the leprechaun we know so well from the previous three installments when they act as a security detail for a creepy doctor doing genetics research on another planet. Why the evil elf is now on another world wooing some blonde ditz who just happens to be an alien princess from a powerful kingdom is another matter and one I refuse to discuss in any detail. The squad of celestial jarheads includes a sergeant with a bizarre, transparent plate in his head and Debbe Dunning in the "I'matoughchickdon'tmesswithme" role that has been done to death in recent years. Along for the ride is a super hot blonde scientist, yet another cliché beaten into the ground in countless movies. This scientist, who I will call Dr. Tina Reeves because that's her name, banters arthritically with a hunky marine because the two must hook up at some point during the movie and they cannot do so if they get along initially. Another cliché. This movie is absolutely bursting at the seams with clichés. It's as though the screenwriter took a bottle of white out, splashed it over selected parts of an "Alien" movie script, and typed some junk over the top of it. The trite screenplay continues to plumb the depths of rip-off when we meet the rest of the marines, all of them carbon copies of characters we've seen a million times in other movies. Even the weird doctor with a German accent who turns out to be a cheesy half human/half robot character was so formulaic that I thought about filing a lawsuit on behalf of Dr. Strangelove.

The arrival of the leprechaun, still played by Warwick Davis, fails to salvage any part of this film because the little man is always saddled with an annoyingly terrible actress playing an evil space princess. The plot has the two planning to marry and take over planets, or some such nonsense, making for a very dull and lifeless jaunt through the confines of the spaceship as the leprechaun and the marines attack each other. At one point, the gruff, manly sergeant turns up for a bump and grind number in drag. This scene is so painful to watch that I am embarrassed to even write about it in a review. I recognize actors will do almost anything in a film because it is usually better than getting a real job, but this is just pure agony on a level rarely imagined. Fortunately, most of these cookie cutter characters die in painful ways: someone gets chewed up by flesh eating bacteria, a crotch explodes, someone takes a dive off of a platform, and a mutated spider/scorpion/German doctor creature chews up a few other people. The scenes with this horrible monstrosity provide the only admirable trait this movie possesses, and even then it fails because we only see the scorpion type beastie in the final moments of the movie. Be sure and pay attention to the atrocious special effects used on the exterior shots of the space ship. Who did the graphics work in this film? The guy who invented Pong? "Leprechaun 4" is one of the worst pictures I have seen in at least a week.

At least this movie still has Warwick Davis doing his shtick as the icky sprite. Unfortunately, the overwhelming amount of awfulness in the movie significantly dilutes his effectiveness. As far as the DVD goes, it is the usual Trimark "Leprechaun" release, with a few trailers and a good picture transfer. Even diehard "Leprechaun" fans, which I am not even though I recently watched all five entries in the franchise, should stay away from this blasphemy. I would recommend "Leprechaun 5" over this turkey any day, and that is really saying something. Only the steeliest of souls should imbibe from the well that is "Leprechaun 4;" I beg, I beseech, I implore all other viewers to stay far, far, away!