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Leprechaun is another one of those horror franchises that goes on and on, sequel after sequel, new cast and crew every time, all that jazz, but unlike its fellow horror franchises like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, Leprechaun doesn't even try to be good. They're all unconscionably dumb. Self-aware, but dumb. There isn't even a thread of a narrative to connect the movies other than there's an evil leprechaun who speaks in ridiculous rhymes and needs his gold and will kill anyone in his way to get it. But for any fan of camp, Leprechaun may be the horror franchise for you. And I'm using horror in the absolute loosest sense of the word because I got more shivers down my spine watching Jack and Jill than I did during any of these movies. What puts it in the horror category is simply the fact that it's an evil entity that likes to kill people, and there's bountiful gore and T&A.

Having said all that, Leprechaun 3 is probably the best in the series. There's something oddly fitting about the Leprechaun running around Vegas using real magic to fool gamblers and phony magicians, which makes for some entertaining developments. The cast is passable. Discussing the acting in a Leprechaun movie is as fruitful as analyzing the intricacies between Adam Sandler's Jack and Adam Sandler's Jill (I don't know why Jack and Jill is my go-to comparison but sure, why not). But overall, it's passable; a huge improvement over Leprechaun 2's acting which was just infuriating to watch. The movie actually has a plot, too! One of the Leprechaun's gold coins falls into the wrong hands and goes from person to person in a casino, granting the holder whatever they wish for. Again, story-wise this is by far the most practical of the Leprechaun movies.

What prevents this from being a great movie is the fact that it's vehemently stupid. I know that's the point, but there were moments where Leprechaun 3 felt like a legitimately decent movie. I enjoyed where the plot was going, the Leprechaun was throwing some classic one-liners, the deaths were highly amusing, but then it would shift gears and focus on a particular character or subplot that no one cares about and it would kill its momentum. If the whole movie focused on the main narrative of the coin going 'round and 'round the casino and the Leprechaun having to go through hurdles to find it and kill every poor sap in his path, it would've been a good movie. But they throw in crap like the Leprechaun now has werewolf powers so if he bites someone, they'll also turn into a leprechaun. Also before the Leprechaun actually gets to the casino, the movie is really boring. It's like ten minutes of the Leprechaun antagonizing some random store owner and spitting out stupid dialogue for the sake of spitting out stupid dialogue with no advancement to the plot.

Truthfully, I enjoyed this movie. A lot more than I thought I would actually. The first Leprechaun was decent, just barely, because Jennifer Aniston was great eye-candy. The second one was an abomination even by camp horror standards. This is one of those instances where the third time really is a charm. I mean, it's not much of a charm, but it accomplishes what it sets out to. It's amusing, it's ridiculous, basically the quintessential stoner horror movie, and it reaches the potential that its predecessors missed. Now, is it a good movie? Get the f*ck out of here. You know it's not. But is it a fun watch? Sure it is, especially if you're under the influence of a foreign substance. Even then, as far as campy horror movies go, you could do a lot worse than Leprechaun 3. You could do a lot better, too.

Leprechaun always faced that uphill battle of not being taken seriously, thing is they really aren't supposed to. These are comedy horrors and harmless ones at that.

Leprechaun 3 is noted as being Warwick Davis favourite and I can see why, it blows the others I've seen out of the water with it's fantastic humour and performances by the cast.

Our leading lady however retired straight after production, perhaps this isn't what she had in mind when she went into acting.

This third part see's our titular character venture to Las Vegas where one of his golden shillings is stolen. Cue the bloodshed & brilliant comedic quips.

Watching this almost helped me forget about the embarrassment that was the WWE's reboot of the franchise back in 2014 with Origins.

Harmless fun and the best one of the franchise that I've seen up until now.

The Good:

Humour is on point

Cast is great especially Davis

Looks solid

The Bad:

A bit silly in places

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Leprechauns need health insurance to

I really want to see a Leprechaun vs Chucky crossover now

This gets decent marks only for one reason: it's entertaining. Other than that, it has no redeeming value, is classless, has poor acting and even poorer dialog....but sure was fun to watch a couple of times.

The Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) has some very funny lines and rhymes and is the undisputed star of the show. There are a lot of special effects used for both comedy and for horror. This is the third of about four of these type of films, and the only one I thought worth keeping, mainly for the laughs. Eventually, the quality of the tape was so bad I canned it. Maybe I should check out the DVD, which was subsequently released.

Lee Armstrong provided the female lead role and she was a pretty woman but obviously not much of an actress and few people have heard of her before or since.

If you want something stupid but entertaining, a good mix of horror and comedy, this little dirty Leprechaun should fill the bill....but only this edition. Don't bother with the rest in the series.

This very broad and very gross horror comedy is a step up from the junk called "Leprechaun 2", but that's not saying very much. The script is nothing new (Lep yet again counts his coins, finds one missing, goes after whoever might be in possession of it), but it's certainly busy enough, with two or three parallel plotlines running simultaneously. Anyway, if you want to see the title character impersonating Elvis or giving people the finger, this may be your only chance. (**)

The Leprechaun runs riot in Las Vegas. This is my favourite entry into the series (I've watched three so far) because it makes good use of its new casino setting and has a more interesting cast of characters than usual. Also featuring a jaw-dropping human-to-leprechaun transformation, and the goriest death so far when a magician literally gets cut in half! Yuck. Plenty of funny one-liners ("Do you have Health Insurance?" "Yes, Green Cross!") and a great cleavage-revealing costume worn by the female lead for 90% of the film make this well worth your time. What was the point in the medallion though, or the completely irrelevant Elvis stand-off? Oh well.. 5/10

Leprechaun 3 was the best film in the 6 part series. In this one, the lep is in Las Vegas creating trouble. Several people die like in the other films, but even an evil and greedy leprechaun knows better than to disrespect Elvis in Sin City-he briefly bonds with an Elvis impersonator without causing him any harm.

The lep also has some good lines, and this one even features a naïve college student (Scott) who gets bit by the lep and starts to turn into one of the green monsters. Fortunately, the naïve college student and his sexy female companion (Tammy-working as magician's assistant to a wannabe magician (Fazio) who gets sawed in half by the lep)defeat the little evil green guy. Scott even manages to avoid becoming a little evil green midget at the end of the film.

My favorite death scenes are the one where the an older woman jealous of Tammy's good looks finds one of the lep's coin, and wishes she was beautiful again. The lep makes her boobs, lips, and butt big and then proceeds to blow her up. The other good death scene is where the dirty old man casino owner gets seduced by a sexy female robot with big boobs, and then gets electrocuted by the lep.

The lep also manages to ruin Fazio's magic trick by turning an animal into a pile of poop in his hand-that was also very funny.

If you have limited time and want to check out this series, recommend watching this one as the 1st film to view.

This is Definitely a Good Sequel Not as Good as The Original Movie But Still Good though I Do Admit That Leprechaun 3 is a Better Sequel then Leprechaun 2 though

OK so this is easily the best movie in this entire series and that's because this is the movie where the series embraces the fact that these movies are just so freaking terrible that they actually end up being entertaining, which is probably why all of the movies in this series after 1 and 2 were released direct to DVD

This is a great comedy rather than horror film, the leprechaun is absolutely amusing! The characters are some of the funniest ones I've encountered in any film. Anyway, the Leprechaun is resurrected (from a statue in Las Vegas) and chases after a shopkeeper who attempted to steal his gold, one of the gold coins gets lost and winds up in a young college student's hands, after that it rolls arouns the casino where greedy characters attempt to exploit it (Creating some great situation comedy). Meanwhile, the Leprechaun is wild around Vegas, enjoying himself at the casino rather than killing people. Only towards the end does he bother chasing and blowing up, seducing, biting and clawing his way through the characters. The funniest (Or one of the funniest scenes is in the E.R. where a crooked doctor says: "This is a question of life and death! Do you have health insurance?"

So this movie features the leprechaun who is now weakened by a medallion as well as his gold being destroyed. I thought he was weak against either four leaf clovers or iron. What is this thing supposed to be defeated by? Oh and he died in the last movie but now he's back. I mean, this guy looks and acts the same as the leprechaun in the previous films. It must be the same character! Anyway, this movie features the leprechaun biting somebody causing him to turn into one. I thought that was vampires, werewolves, and zombies? Well, I guess if they can bite people and make them one of themselves leprechauns can do it too.

Dang, the 1995 computers do not hold up. I guess I'll give the movie credit for being slightly better than the last one. This movie features coins that grant wishes. I thought the leprechaun himself granted wishes? Anyway, the main characters actually do use their wishes well and are pretty intelligent. I find the death of the woman with the inflation of the lips, breasts, and butt to be horrifying to watch and not in a good way. The leprechaun loses one shilling just like he did in the first movie. I don't care, these movies suck. *1/2

"Leprechaun 3" is simultaneously better and worse than Lep 1 & 2. It pulls this off by have a terrible "Act One" (the first 45 minutes), but an entertaining "Act Two" (the last 45 minutes). I'm sorry, but with the exception of the Leprechaun character, Mark Jones cannot write convincing dialogue to save his life. I felt bad for actor John Gatins (playing Scott McCoy), who as the young college kid was saddled with some of the most unconvincing dialogue... well, ever. It was almost unwatchable, this "Act One". Then the story changes in "Act Two" with "Scott" getting infected with the Leprechaun's blood, and after that it's nothing but a good time.

One cool thing is that this time, Warwick Davis gets to speak nearly all of his dialogue in rhyme, and in "Act Two" he's downright funny at times. Davis really carries these films, without him they'd be unwatchable. With him, the Leprechaun has a destructive charm that's just fun to watch.

I decided to take a look at this movie again because I saw it as a kid on TV. I started to watch it and thought some of the humor was pretty funny.

So a pawn shop guy gets a statue and a medallion, of course the guy who brings it in says "Don't touch the Medallion" so what does Pawn Shop guy do: EXACTLY THAT! There are 2 showdowns with the Leprechaun and the Shop Owner, with the Leprechaun victorious at their last meeting. Their meetings happen because 1. He's the shop owner and 2. There's one piece of gold missing. Then there's the convenient thing where the shop owner was looking up Leprechaun lore on the computer, that plays into the next section At the casino, Scott--our hero--is having a losing streak, then goes to pawn the watch and finds the dead shop owner dead. The next thing Scott does is accidentally going up to the computer and unpausing it at the time that the gold shilling is told to have magic powers: Granting a wish. He makes his wish: A winning streak.

That's where it all gets complicated. The gold coin shifts hands so many times and the Leprechaun keeps killing until the final showdown; which has something to do with Scott not feeling quite like himself.

All in all, it's a farce, a decent but predictable farce.

In Las Vegas, a man with one hand, one eye, and one leg walks into a pawn shop with a Leprechaun statue and a medallion. He sells it to the shop owner for $20 and warns him not to touch the medallion. Of course, he takes the medallion and the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) comes to life. The Leprechaun loses one of his coins and the medallion keeps him at bay. Scott McCoy is new in town and almost runs over Tammy Larsen. She's a magician at a casino with a broke down car. She's an assistant to incompetent magician Fazio.

None of the characters are appealing or sympathetic. The acting is lackluster. Scott is a loser with no charisma. He is annoying in his cluelessness. Tammy is sassy for no reason. Their story has no drama until Scott shows up at the pawn shop. Speaking of the pawn shop, the owner's battle with the Leprechaun is silly. I don't care about the shop owner and the fight has no rooting interest. The only good is Warwick Davis despite the bad jokes and the ridiculous outfit. This continues to be lower level camp and an unscary horror franchise.

Compared to the first two movies in the "Leprechaun" series, then part three is fairly tame and a step back horror-wise. The third installment of the series offers more of a comedy approach to the genre.

"Leprechaun 3" takes place in Las Vegas, where everything is golden, so it is right up the leprechaun's alley. So the setting itself was actually not a bad choice.

Again, as in the previous two movies, the leprechaun (played by Warwick Davis) is on a killing rampage and spewing rhyming obscenities. It does have its odd charm and works out well enough, despite it bordering on being downright annoying.

The lack of scares, horror and blood in this third movie is a step downward in the enjoyment for me. Don't get me wrong, "Leprechaun 3" is a nice movie, sort of a strange horror-comedy. If you watch this movie hoping it to be scary, then you are in for a disappointment.

Having seen it now, and having parts four and five next to me, I am starting to dread the direction the series have gone in. But still, I am sure I will give the remaining movies a go as well.

Brian Trenchard Smith 'gets' it: those who settle down for a third instalment of the Leprechaun series aren't expecting a groundbreaking work of art… they simply want another undemanding dose of tongue-in-cheek horror, with Warwick Davis hobbling around spouting appalling rhymes, and a spot of really hokey gore. And that's exactly what Trenchard-Smith delivers with Leprechaun 3, along with some T&A for good measure.

This chapter sees the malevolent titular character causing trouble in Las Vegas, killing those unfortunate enough to find themselves in possession of one of his gold shillings. Meanwhile, college student Scott McCoy, bitten on the arm by the mischievous imp, is slowly transforming into a leprechaun himself. With help from beautiful magician's assistant Tammy (Lee Armstrong), can Scott defeat the evil Oirish fellow and thus return to normal?

Highlights from Leprechaun 3 include Indian pawn shop owner Gupta (Marcelo Tubert) having his ear and toe bitten off, Caroline Williams (Stretch from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) exploding, magician Fazio being sawn in half with a chainsaw (John DeMita), casino owner Mitch (Michael Callan) electrocuted by a topless female cyborg, and virtually any scene featuring the lovely Lee Armstrong, since she spends the majority of the film in corset and stockings.

This movie is clearly when the franchise started to take a downturn...a significant downturn. Which is saying something for an already diminishing series, that was NEVER great, to begin with.

The movie itself was filmed like a cheap adult film/soap opera and it the settings just look dated and dingy, perhaps that was what they were going for, a tongue in cheek approach? The shining moments in the film are primarily when Warwick Davis is in the scene, which obviously makes sense because you can tell he was just having fun in this film.

Every other scene is kind of a joke, with a slight few exceptions. Those exceptions come in the form of Tom Dugan and Roger Hewlett, two actors whose scenes seem extremely out of place, yet oddly satisfying. I would have rather had a story where these two "mobsters" are going up against the Leprechaun in Sin City. Their back and forth banter is almost like the writer had a different script in mind, but had already committed to this contract, it's almost laughable.

Obviously, if you are reading this and you have watched the movie, you know it's not that great, but I freaking love the Leprechaun franchise and will probably continue to watch them over and over again every year. Warwick Davis really shines as the Greedy Leprechaun and he just drives these movies in such a fun way.

Leprechaun 3 is about Leprechaun in las Vegas the main characters is not that good but almost every character is great.

The acting isn't that good but don't expect anything great going in to this movie.

It's a shot on video movie and it's the first Leprechaun one to be shot on video of the whole franchise.

Some of the best kills of the franchise and has much more violence than the first two Warwick Davis is awsome as Leprechaun as always wish he was in the last one, but i like Linden Porco as Leprechaun in it.

Overall a great leprechaun movie and i highly recommend watching it just don't take it to seriously and you will probably have a great time!

It took me a while to get round to watching the 'Leprechaun' franchise, with so much going on and having a long watch and review list. Saw the films mainly for curiosity to see whether they would be guilty pleasures or deserving of their dubious reputation. Also appreciate horror, and ones with splashes of comedy, and had gotten into watching a few horror franchises that had interested me for a long time.

Watching 'Leprechaun', while understanding why people would find it a guilty pleasure it didn't do it for me. The second film was a marginal improvement but just as flawed with the same flaws. Saw the sequels as a franchise completest (just in case why anybody is wondering why if the first film didn't it for me why the rest of the films were watched too). While it was still not a good film 'Leprechaun 3' for me up to this early stage of the franchise the best of the three films while containing pretty much all the faults that the previous two films had.

Davis is the best thing about the film. He is both amusing and creepy and does do the best he can, successfully, with an again goofy look, some terrible lines (though actually they are funnier and more twisted than in the first two films) and less than tasteful horror which must have been hard to do and shows how conscientious and talented he is.

There are sporadically mildly amusing moments that don't come anywhere near enough, the answer to the health insurance question did make me laugh. The second half does have entertaining moments and with a bigger budget the film looks less cheap than the first film with a more expansive location and slicker photography, while still not being exactly high art because the effects are weak.

On the other hand, the rest of the cast is very poor, with insufferably bland leads and an assortment of irritating supporting roles. The characters display very little personality when they aren't being insufferably annoying with their dumb antics and illogical decision making, the character of Scott being the worst example of both extremes.

'Leprechaun 3' is still lacking in the story and script. The dialogue is pure repetitive childishness, with an overload of cheese and nothing funny, and the humour and whimsicality are forced. Having gratuitous gruesome gore was not enough to cover up for the complete lack of scares and suspense, nothing bit my nails, nothing made my heart pound or skip, nothing made my palms or forehead sweat, nothing made me jump. It's not just because it is so intelligence insultingly dumb, excessively predictable and unintentionally comical, but the story, while picking up a little in the second half, is very thin with a very dull first half. The kills are neither creative or scary, a few distasteful, and the direction is pretty leaden.

Summarising, mediocre third instalment. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Warwick Davis returns to his role as the spiteful leprechaun who'll kill anyone for his gold! This time the leprechaun must get back one of his gold coins which is making its way through the hands of patrons at the Lucky Shamrock Hotel & Casino. The third entry is not up to the level of Part 1 (whatever that was), yet features such surrealistic sites as the leprechaun impersonating Elvis, strolling amongst nudie bars, and taking up the part of an E.R. doctor. This installment has more of the leprechaun's delightful limericks and rhymes then its predecessors - and that is a definite plus. Skeeter rates it 3 out of 4, maybe 3 1/4 on St. Patrick's Day.

This one is far campier than the first two movies and this makes for a more enjoyable film. One of the few movie series to actually improve with time. This one is so funny, I have a hard time categorizing it as a horror movie, but beware this still isn't something to show your young children.

"Leprechaun 3" takes the franchise to the bright lights of Las Vegas, but unfortunately, it fails to cash in on its setting. Warwick Davis is the highlight, as always, bringing an entertainingly mischievous performance as the Leprechaun. His witty one-liners and dark humor provide some fun moments.

However, the plot is flimsy, relying on a series of increasingly absurd and repetitive situations. The characters are one-dimensional, with little development or reason to care about their fate. The special effects are dated, even for a 90s horror-comedy, and many of the kills lack creativity.

While it does have some charm for fans of campy horror, and Davis's performance is enjoyable, "Leprechaun 3" is ultimately forgettable and fails to deliver anything beyond a few cheap laughs. It's not the worst in the series, but far from being a gem.