Leprechaun 2 (1994)

By Jody. Score: 2/10

And because I'm a glutton for punishment (and to see if it truly is as bad as I remembered it was), here we have Leprechaun 2 - the last entry to the series that received a theatrical run. Because the first entry's $8.5 million take was a moderate success considering the budget and genre, they doubled this entry's budget, but got about a quarter of the box office results - and for good reason.

Everything amusing or charming from the first movie, is totally gone. The script is just too bad to be "so bad it's good", and the acting was so absolutely terrible, it was completely distracting. The lead actress' voice is so monotone and flat, I hated every scene she is in.

I am going to digress a bit - this is a blog, after all. The big excuse for bad acting that one hears is "it's a B-movie, the acting is supposed to be bad." I don't buy it. It seems to me that no matter what your budget is, every city, every town has at least one, maybe more, theater troops with tremendous undiscovered talent who would work for peanuts just for a chance to be discovered. I guarantee they could have found better lead characters.

Ok, off my soapbox for the time being. This will be my last entry on this franchise, the Leprechaun's trip to the big city soured my taste for revisiting his trips to Vegas, outer space, and his two trips to "da hood".

Starring: Warwick Davis, really crappy no-name actors, and a Clint Howard cameo
Directed by: Rodman Flender (who went on to direct "Idle Hands" and dozens of television episodes)
Budget / Gross: $2 mil / $2.6 mil
IMDB score: 3.7/10
Tomatometer: 0% critics and 34% audiences liked it