a_chinn Warwick Davis goes back to the LA "Hood" and it's about what you'd expect. As with the previous films, the production value is below average, the story and characters are underdeveloped, and most of the picture relies on Davis' evil grin and diminutive figure wreaking havoc to carry he film. But watching the creepy little leprechaun take out gang members, racist cops, and pretty much anyone who gets in his way actually goes a long way. "Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood" was the sixth and final appearance by Davis and the leprechaun. I'm not sure the series was going to be able to sustain itself much longer, but I will have to admit that Davis inserting himself in a seemingly unconnected genre is pretty darn entertaining, much the same way he did when he went into space (essentially becoming the xenomorph from "Alien"). Who knows, maybe the series could have gone on to further installments by taking the leprechaun into other seemingly unrelated genres (Romantic comedy? Buddy cop film? Post apocalyptic? etc.). But if they insist on another urban drama for a seventh installment, how about placing the leprechaun into a movie where he's the newest teacher at a tough inner city high school? Sadly, this was the last entry in the Leprechaun series to feature Warwick Davis as the Leprechaun before WWE decided to reboot the series with an ill-conceived notion that trying to make a serious scary leprechaun film was a good idea.

BA_Harrison Hairdresser from tha hood Emily Woodrow (Tangi Miller) and her ghetto pals discover a chest full of gold coins and, ignoring a warning from a psychic woman to deny their newfound wealth, find themselves threatened by a malevolent leprechaun.What has made the Leprechaun sequels bearable thus far is their blatant silliness and camp characters, with the focus on twisted humour rather than genuine horror. Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood plays everything a little too straight for its own good, with not nearly enough in the way of knowingly dumb nonsense: the death scenes are forgettable, and with some of the least likable protagonists of the whole franchise (drug smoking, gun toting thugs with few redeeming qualities), Back 2 tha Hood proves to be quite the painful experience.The funniest scene in the whole sorry mess is when Leprechaun (Warwick Davis, returning for the paycheck) smokes a bong, but we already saw the little guy get stoned in the previous film (which handled the whole 'G' thang with a lot more fun).

GL84 Struggling to make ends meet, a woman and her friends stumble upon the leprechaun's pot of gold and use it to improve their lives only to incur the wrath of the leprechaun who tears apart the hood trying to find the missing gold.This was a far better sequel than expected. One of the major improvements over the preceding efforts is how comfortable and easy- going this one is with the urban setting for a franchise story, as there's little here that feels at odds with the rest of the franchise. Dropping the hip-hop flavored story here for a more universal story about their poor environment and struggling to survive day-to-day in that environment, coming across the gold and it's sudden wealth that offers them an escape only for the leprechaun to exact revenge makes for a much more cohesive fit into the other entries while using that urban setting here to help sell the poverty and desperation in a slightly-different-yet-still- familiar angle. That here really helps the rest of the action as the leprechaun fits into the story better and causes the encounters to stand out a little more. The opening in the under-construction complex gets this off to a fine start, the party scenes of the leprechaun maneuvering through the different groups and enjoying himself in their company quite nicely and the big scenes of him going through the periphery characters of the story here all give this one some really enjoyable scenes. That's not to take into account the film's rather fun highlights offerings here with the creature's appearance at her home where it stalks her through the house and finally into the bathroom which is a thrilling sequence, his later confrontation in her friends' house over the gold is a really exciting series of stalking scenes with brawling and the encounter along the aqueduct where he deals with the cops to get to them and the resulting encounter with the thugs which is another fun action-packed encounter taking out the thugs waiting for them all being really enjoyable and exciting. This one also manages to get in some really great fun overall here with the finale as the action picks up considerably as there's numerous full-on confrontations in the apartment out onto the roof where they get into the first extended battle that leads nicely into the rather thrilling encounter down in the boiler room that initially settles into the big shock-finish that showcases a spectacular false death with the grand finale afterwards really making this one feature such a rousing and energetic finale which really goes nicely for the film's overall action quotient. As all these encounters provide the film with plenty of graphic, gory kills as this one features a huge body count more than the other entries, these here all manage to make for a really fun time that holds off the lone flaws here. Though this one manages more than the others to really get the indestructible nature of the leprechaun, it does so by forsaking the very things that made him a unique villain as there's no tricks, no wishes or anything remotely supernatural about him, much like the previous entry. This one only makes us aware that he's a leprechaun through size and failure to die as every other time here it doesn't really do much to counter that. The cheesiness is something that might bother some, but these are the film's issues.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and lots of drug use and references.

derektrotteresq This sequel is so much better than the others, for starters its much darker and the Leprechaun's costume is also much better in this movie. Gone are the stripy socks and bright red pants, instead we have a more 19th century dark, creepy looking Leprechaun. The humour is still there in this film, except that its not cringeworthy like it was in earlier outings and is actually funny. There are very few hokey special effects and the storyline is played out well. They have also brought back the four leaf clover to kill a leprechaun mythology from the first film. Will it win an Oscar? No, but it sure makes up for the last few sequels which completely ignored the fact its supposed to be in the horror genre and instead tried to be too much of a comedy. All the Leprechaun films are fun in their own way, but this one is far less hokey - there's hope for the series yet!