AKA: One Wedding and Lots
of Funerals (UK) (video title)
Director: Rodman Flender
Writers (WGA):Mark Jones & Turi Meyer
CAST---
Warwick Davis ... The Leprechaun
Charlie Heath ... Cody
Shevonne Durkin ... Bridget
Sandy Baron ... Morty
Adam Biesk ... Ian
James Lancaster ... William O'Day
Linda Hopkins ... Housewife
Arturo Gil ... Drunk at the Pub
Runtime:85 min
Leprechaun 2 (1994)
Warwick Davis, best known for his performance in the film “WILLOW”, returns to play the mischievous
Leprechaun . This time we find out that his birthday is on St. Patrick’s day (I could have never guessed)
and that on every thousand birthday he is able to seek out a bride. Early in the film in Ireland we see he
employs a man slave to do his bidding. He (the slave) even wears a magical metal collar around his
neck to keep him in line.
This is how the love spell works: The excited leprechaun chooses a fair bride. Then he magically makes
her sneeze three times. If by the last sneeze no one is there to say “bless you” she’s his. Bam ! The
stupid shit is that the leprechaun always chooses a situation where the girl is accompanied by people.
Why not lure his woman into a back alley or something, where they could be alone. So… he is unable to
get the man slaves daughter so he promises to get one of his kin, one thousand years later. There’s the
set up. It’s a fun setup and as we get to know the main characters the movie becomes sweeter, that is
until Davis ruins it again, but thankfully not as bad as in the first film.
Cody , a young hustler run’s an illegitimate tour business with his grandfatherly, alcoholic friend Morty.
They drive people through supposedly haunted places in Hollywood in a furnished hearse. Cody is
trying to make his relationship with Bridget work. She happens to be the kin of the man salve and the
chosen bride for our green menace. In no time the Leprechaun (Why doesn’t he have a freakin’
name?) snatches Bridget away from Cody but not before losing a gold coin which Cody now acquires
One of my favorite scenes is when Bridget is at the Leprechaun’s tree house (pretty humongous for a
tree house) and he has her restrained. He gives her a disgusting, sloppy, slimy kiss, by far the most
awful kiss I have ever seen! My other favorite is when Morty, self proclaimed drinking master
challenges the Leprechaun to a drinking contest at a bar. At first he declines but when the pressure is
on and a group of midgets start cheering for him saying: “One of us…” he starts chugging bottle after
bottle. Meanwhile Morty had been drinking a non alcoholic drink. Oh what a hustler !
Later the Leprechaun returns what another pimped out go-cart. What is it with him and tiny, silly cars?
We learn two new rules of leprechaun lore, which I bet will be changed or abandoned in latter movies.
One: Wrought Iron steel burns and kills leprechauns, and two: If you are carrying one of his golden
coins your invulnerable to leprechaun attacks. So the dumb guy in the first movie would be a leprechaun
smashing super hero for he had swallowed one of the coins.
Morty and Cody manage to trap the leprechaun in a wrought iron safe. Freaking awesome ! You’d think
that the little bugger would spend eternity in there, oh maybe if they buried it ten feet into the ground.
But no. Morty’s greediness to get 3 wishes ruins the whole deal as the leprechaun sweet talks his way
into having Morty release him. For being stupid he gets the leprechauns gold to come out of his
stomach. Wait, don’t get too excited, you don’t see barely shit. It is so disappointing, much like the
lawnmower blade death I had not mentioned. Oh and since we are talking about that lawnmower, garage
scene, this is where you see boobs. But I swear these are the sorriest breasts I have ever seen. They
look rubber ! Anyway, with Morty dead Cody goes after his girl at the leprechaun’s tree house.
Bridget is wearing one of those metal collars, it’s gold and has a heart shaped lock in the front. Kinky
good ! She manages to pick the lock and run around with Cody trying to escape. The place is like a
magical maze. The leprechaun catches up with them and demands his gold coin. Cody gives him instead
a chocolate coin covered in gold wrapper. The leprechaun kills Cody but since he had the real coin he’s
unharmed. He takes quick action to thrust a wrought iron stake at the leprechaun making him blow up.
This film was much better than the first. This was due to the extremely likeable characters. The
Leprechaun was a bit more tolerable here but still far from endearing.
It started out as fun and ended not so fun, but I can’t complain, I’m in this for the long haul.
- Jorge Antonio Lopez

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Read an Interview with the director
Rodman Flender here