Leprchaun 4: In Space

Even though it is a really bad series, the Leprechaun films have always had interesting settings. The North Dakota setting in the first movie was interesting and a surprise. The second movie had a tree setting that was only fun because of how laughable it was. Las Vegas was the setting for the third movie and now for the fourth movie, the setting is.......well outer space. Obviously putting the leprechaun in outer space puts this series into a quite different perspective. While mixing it up a little, it really did nothing for the quality of the movie as it is as bad as I expected. No, I would say even worse.

Maybe the director, Brian Trenchard-Smith should have thought about his budget when making a film set in outer space. Sure this is going to be a "direct to video" movie but with a $1.6 million budget, why try to make a film like this? The problems are that the plot has too many story lines, space shots that appear to be taken off a mid-90's computer and aliens that look like they were scraped together in five minutes. The space set has so many errors that it is hard for me to describe in one sentence so I won't try. Some of the Spaceship sets are ok and that is probably where all the money went here.

Though they are obviously two very different films, Leprechaun 4: In Space does borrow, or you might say rips-off the Alien movie. It uses the same aspects and qualities of the Bill Paxton and Sigourney Weaver characters in Alien though we never really learn anything about these Leprechaun characters. The acting has a "trying too hard" quality and we really don't care about at all about these characters and don't take them seriously. There is a doctor that appears to serve no purpose and a princess who just gives us an unnecessary nude scene.

The Leprechaun played by Warwick Davis has more powers to him in this movie though that is never explained. The villain does fit here but the movie is quite uneven and has an ending that I think showed that the director frankly didn't know what to do with it.

The Leprechaun series of movies really do not fit together at all and this film really proves it. Obviously, it make no sense why the Leprechaun is in space and then back to earth in the later films. There is no timetable in place either and this is a series that still doesn't know what it is. It all leaves me kind of speechless.

I have reviewed close to 500 films in my career. Nothing really could have prepared me for this film or possibly helped me like it as it brings the Leprechaun movies to a new version of "terrible". Leprechaun 4: In Space is some of worst film making I have ever seen which makes it one of the hardest films I have ever reviewed. It is hard to take seriously. Avoid this at all costs.

0.5/5