Leprechaun 2: Back in tha Hood

Leprechaun 2: Back in tha Hood
'Hat & High heels in a rage'

For my readers who may not be enthralled with foreign films, I have subjected myself to the ignominy of watching Leprechaun 2: Back in tha Hood...an American film.

I knew I was in for treat when channel surfing we saw this on cable. I was immediately drawn to the title, Leprechaun 2: Back in tha Hood...that's tha Hood, not the Hood. Apparently, when talking about tha Hood you can't use the proper definite article, the, it has to be tha. Be I glad learned ya sumtin'.

So a girls falls into an underground cave that just happens to be at the end of a rainbow and is also right next to a public basketball court! The chick falls like three stories underground and of course, is unhurt. It's dark as hell down there so the guy that was with her, but didn't fall, is going to get a ladder or something and throws down a lighter to her so she can see.

She finds a candle down there. Yes, there was a cabinet with a candle. She lights the candle with the lighter. Check this out now. As she's looking around the cave/room, we see over her shoulder two lit lamps on the wall! WTF?!?!?! Where did they come from? Why is there power down there anyways? Why does she insist on walking around with a candle when there are lamps right behind her?

They find a chest full of gold coins. They take it back and that pisses of the Leprechaun.
He's a nasty looking little fellow that wears a hat & high heels. The first thing he does before killing his first victim, get high with him. Yup. He's smoking a bong. He gets the munchies and he goes to the fridge to find some grub, after killing the first guy with his own bong though. Death by bong, not a nice way to go...

Meanwhile, the finders of the treasure are living it up. One guy buys a gun. Another buys a ton of weed. A girl steals a gold coin from the finders. Now, according to the movie, each coin is worth about $4,000 to $5,000. And what does she do with this coin? What do you think she did? Sell it? Get it appraised? Buy food for her baby? Call her baby daddy for advice? Go to college? Pay the rent? Nooooooo...this is the hood argh, excuse me. This is tha Hood. She does what any respectable Hood denizen would conceivably do with a stolen previously-leprechaun owned gold coin, she has it melted and made into a gold tooth. Now why didn't I think of that?

The leprechaun gets over his buzz and continues hunting down the thieves. This does seem like a black version of the movie Scream (there's only 1 white guy in the movie) because that Leprechaun gets beat up by everyone. He gets punched, run over, burned, shot, hit with a bat, this guy takes a licking but keeps on ticking.

So how do you kill a Leprechaun? First you have to go to the resident Hood psychic, who just happens to have a Grimoire that explains everything about Leprechauns. According to her, "The Leprechauns single and only weakness is a four leaf clover and his gold." HUH??? How many single weaknesses can a guy have?

After getting beat up extensively by his victims, the tiny dude can manage to kill anyone with any object at hand. In one scene, he kills a guy with a cellphone. Afterwards, he talks to the guy's girlfriend who just happens to call at that time. Tiny dude tries to pick up the victims girlfriend! No shit! The monster starts to give the nastiest pick up lines to the chick! She begins to buy it, red hair, nice smile, but she doesn't like his answer to her question, "How tall are you?" She's a bit taken aback by the 3'6" answer. Tiny dude says, "Yeah, but don't worry. I make up for it in other ways, if you know what I mean." Toooo funny....
The girl hangs up on him and how do we know this? Because we hear a dial tone. Hello?!?!?
Cell phones don't have dial tones.

A lot more running and more killing. An enterprising guy takes hollow point bullets and fills the tips with a ground four leaf clover. Ahhh, where did they find a four leaf clover on such short notice? Well, the guy who was a pothead reaches into his bag of weed and pulls a four leaf clover out of it. Perfectly plausible.

So in the end, the guy has his Leprechaun bullets (since he's impervious to garlic, silver bullets, crosses, stakes through the heart, sunlight, etc.). He has to shoot the monster about 15 times before he eventually falls into a vat of fresh cement that was conveniently left on the roof of the building in the middle of the night. Additionally, the guys must've bought a super handgun because I am not sure any handgun can hold that many bullets.