Bad Movie Monday: Leprechaun in the Hood

Special Martin Luther King Day edition.

Yes, the days of bad movies being made by whites only is far behind us. Black people can now stand up and say, "We put shit to film just as badly as you honky folk." As evidence, I submit the fifth in the Leprechaun series: Leprechaun in the Hood.

The movie includes the incomparable Ice-T as a gangsta who freezes the Leprechaun using some kind of magic flute. Uh oh, you know what that means! Some homies are going to get capped, stabbed, strangled, and slashed when the Leprechaun is freed. Of course, the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) does not disappoint.

The dimly lit Leprechaun chases after the gangstas in search of his magic flute and along the way he raps, smokes a blunt, and kills a lot of gangstas. The rap at the end of the film is particularly disturbing, but throughout the film he rhymes everything he says. Which is what Leprechauns do, right?

Anyway, three aspiring rappers get a hold of the flute to start their music career. When the flute is blown, the magical powers grant the user a wish, or something like that, and then, uh ...Martin Luther King, Jr. rolls over in his grave. -The end.

Highlights: Seeing the Leprechaun throw down some serious lyrics in his rap was well worth the effort of sitting through this cartoon; Ice-T and Coolio!