I was looking forward to this because when you set a movie in space it’s so much cooler right? That’s not the case when there’s an annoying Leprechaun involved. I consider this an isolated installment and not so much a sequel because it doesn’t pick up from the third film; instead it opens with the stupid Leprechaun in space already.

There’s a group of marines in space on a search and destroy mission. Whatever type of alien they were originally after and why is not explained. The marines are also under the command of Dr. Mittenhand, a cyborg computer scientist conducting experiments with alien life forms. We are introduced to SSgt. Brooks Malloy and Dr. Tina Reeves. Brooks is a bulked up, dense marine who falls for Tina from the beginning and she caves in by the end like in any other typical film, instead here the developing romance is handled quite badly and clichéd. There is also a tough talking marine with half his skull exposed as a metal plate, MSgt Hooker. Our Leprechaun is on some planet in a cave with an alien princess in shackles, soon to be his bride. Princess Zarina is a good looking blonde with glitter on her barely clad body who sides with the Leprechaun at first to enjoy his riches.

The marines drop to the planet where the Leprechaun is, save the princess, and take the Leprechaun’ s gold. The Leprechaun kills one marine using a green light saber and, unlike his nature, dives on a bomb with his body to protect the princess. He is blown to pieces and apparently dies and the princess falls to the ground, unresponsive. A dim-wit marine pees on the remains of the Leprechaun and by magic the Leprechaun enters up through his urine stream into his urethra, later to be released when he has a painful erection back on the ship and gives "male birth" to the green midget. On the ship the Leprechaun goes around killing marines and searching for his gold and his woman. When he finds his alien bride in the ship's laboratory he awakens her with a kiss and mixes up some potion to turn Dr. Mittenhand into a monster bug. The marines’ priority now is to kill the Leprechaun. There are lame shoot-outs. On one occasion a couple of the marines encounter the princess and she exposes her breasts to them. Tina, explains to the baffled men, that on the planet Dominia, when a woman of royal blood shows you her breasts it’s a death sentence. Gratuitous topless nudity anyone?

In the entertainment longue MSgt Hooker performs a drag dance under the Leprechaun’s spell and then pulls out nunchucks from his purse and attacks the others. He then gets electrocuted by mistake when he jams his rifle’s blade into a wall socket. Now both the Leprechaun and the Mutant Bug are on a rampage on the ship. The Mutated bug cyborg sets up a self destruct mechanism on the ship and the remaining marines race to stop it. There are two dumb scenes that the director put in there to expose more flesh. Brooks exposes his muscular chest when he gets a flesh wound on his shoulder and needs to take his shirt off and the Mutant Bug pulls off Tina’s pants in a scuffle. She sprays the bug with liquid nitrogen and blows it up. Later the marines open the cargo bay doors and the Leprechaun get’s sucked out into space and explodes. Damn, how many times has he exploded in the series?!? Brooks, Tina and another marine figure out the cancellation code to stop the self destruct. We don’t know what becomes of princess Zarina; she has to be on the ship somewhere.

This movie is watchable but I don’t recommend it to anyone. They could have done so much more with this. The Mutant Bug Cyborg is only onscreen for less than five minutes. I have to remember to stay away from the little green midget. When it comes to bad movie sequels that should not have been made Leprechaun 4 takes the cake. I most likely will not be doing the Leprechaun in the Hood sequels.

- Jorge Antonio Lopez