FUNNY FLICK INDEED WITH A LEP AND HIS WEED
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LEPRECHAUN
IN THE HOOD

I will admit right here and now that I am a huge Leprechaun fan and proudly own all of the films in the series. From the first with Jen all the way to the second Hood flick after this one, I enjoy them all. This one in particular is really fun because not only is The Lep in the Hood but Ice T is also here and joining in on the fun. I ask you this question, what could be better than that?

Three young rappers who are trying to make it big and get out of their neighborhood can't really make out why they are falling behind on their dream. It may be because they are trying for a positive message, well that is if you believe everyone else around them. That is until they break into Mac Daddy's office [Ice T] and find a flute and accidentally release the Leprechaun. He had been turned to stone by Mac Daddy years earlier when he took flute. The flute helps the boys as it makes everyone listen and love their music, but it draws the Lep towards them more and more. So now they are on the run from both the Leprechaun and Mac Daddy as well. Just another day in the hood.

I can't help it I am a sucker for these types of B movies; there is just something about them that make me think of a happier time. This series in particular was just always fun because of Warwick and his performance. Of course none of them were every really scary but the dark humor in these and the crazy kills always entertain. This one in particular is really funny because now not only is the Lep rhyming but he is also rapping. Of course I also like that Bad Azz from the DPG makes a cameo appetence here in this film as does Coolio.

Directed by Rob Spera who also made the first "Witchcraft" and "Bloody Murder 2" keeps things moving nicely and the film never feels long or anything. And the guys playing the wanna be rappers do an excellent job in this movie and are well cast. Ice T of course is the man as he always is, and Warwick holds it down as the Leprechaun. If I had to break it down into one statement it would be if you love B horror flicks then this is for you.
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Is da best, such a classic stoner movie to watch with your friends.
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I really enjoyed watching this. Little bit of gangster with a lot of Comedy kept me laughing the whole time.
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A stoner who is really something else is an interesting premise, as is nutty rogue CIA guy...well done if tasteless violence scenes make for  wow chuckles...just go with it
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It's Brits, Beers and aliens, whats not to like? I really enjoyed this movie. Laughed from beginning to end. A little more mainstream comedy than the previous films
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It's hard to believe this was Guy Ritchie's first film. A cavalcade of characters with intertwining plot twists and laced with dark humour and a cockney accent to boot. The accent ofcourse adds to the atmosphere of the film ... East London, Drugs, Punk rock and of course the quirky characters thrown into the mix, partly because of the circumstances and mostly because of their stupidity.
A permanently stoned set of ganja cultivators, two dumb robbers, 'Nick' the pawnbroker, Rory Breaker "madman" with an afro gang, and a ruthless band of drug dealers and you have an absolutely original movie called Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
"Eddy" and his gang rustle up a 100 grand which would allow them to play a game of poker with the local high stakes player ... he reckons his chances are good as he is very good at cards and reading people's reactions.
"Bacon" part of Eddy's gang hustles stolen goods selling them out of his suitcase on a street corner.
"Soap" the chef also helps finance the gang's plans and also likes to keep his hands clean.
"Tom" Entrepreneur among the 4 friend gang of thieves who gets attached to the antique guns later in the movie.
"Dog" a ruthless gangster who steals from other drug dealers is also a neighbour of "Eddy" and his gang.
"Plank" part of the "Dog" gang who masterminds the caper to rob the "ganja growers" of their shoe boxes full of money and their weed.
"Nick the greek " - The pawnbroker who deals with Eddy's gang, Rory Breaker and the dumb thieves.
"Rory breaker" - A ruthless drug dealer
"Big Chris" a debt collector for Hatchet Harry who also takes his son along everywhere
"Hatchet Harry Porn King" - A compulsive high stakes gambler who doesn't take "No" for an answer. Loses his bar to Sting in a game of poker and wants it back at all costs.
"Barry the baptist" - Runs the business smoothly for Hatchet Harry by taking care of minor details like people who stand in his way.
Harry the Hatchet rigs a game of Poker he is playing with Eddy and gives him a week to pay off his debt of 500 grand or he and each member of his gang will lose a finger for every day that passes after the deadline and eventually his DAD's bar. What happens after this makes up for a very watchable film full of amazing twists and turns. The innovative camerawork, the sepia toned film and the amazing soundtrack complement this film splendidly giving birth to a whole new style of film making. This is a must-have for DVD collectors and even first time watchers of the film.
Guy Ritchie shows a lot of promise and we expect his future contributions to surpass this one.
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Just rented this flick via Amazon Prime on my PS3 (HD version), and thoroughly enjoyed it.  The streaming picture quality was excellent, sound was crisp, and the plot line enjoyable.

If you like Johnny Depp, you'll love this flick.  His facial expressions are classic Depp, and make for some hilarious moments.  Armey Hammer does a great job as the Ranger, and makes the character likable.

The campy style really develops towards the end, and the tip-of-the-hat to the classic series is tastefully done and made both my wife (not a western fan) and I smile.  While the romance doesn't 'resolve', I think they were leaving an opening for a sequel, and thus it is excusable.

Worth a rental.  Kid friendly, but the humor and 'easter eggs' definitely are geared towards adults.
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This is a very enjoyable comedy and Michael Caine has an odd presence here.

What happens when a working class "babe" decides to go back to school and make a culture for herself and meets a disillusioned and highly drunk literature professor, meant to tutor her in this endeavor?

This is just the premise of this little comedy.

What else is there? Well, the fact that two worlds, at the opposite to each other start to merge through two completely different people.

Like Tom and Jerry, Tweety and Sylvester, this is truly a Cat and Mouse game.

But who is the cat and who, the mouse?

Even better would be the comparison with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.

What's up Doc?

For American audiences it may be a bit difficult to understand, since Julie Walters plays in a rather tight British local accent, but the storyline is so well written, that the action alone flaws smoothly and is very understandable.

Earlier, I said that Michael Caine plays an odd role. What I mean by that, is that until this picture was shot, he had always played ordinary people, such like in "Alfie", "Get Carter", "The Italian Job" etc.

In this one he was making a leap forward, in quality and in skills.

By the way, he plays a wonderful "sober" drunk.

The entire story is a close parallel to "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. The only difference is that it was quite updated, and while Professor Henry Higgins, would never truly mingle and socialize with members of the working class (it wouldn't even cross his mind to abase himself in doing so), our modern Henry Higgins does it.

But not enough. While Eliza Dolittle in Pygmalion, "serves and adores" the Professor, the modern version is far more pragmatic and while she too admires the Professor, she quickly realizes that he is just a wreck and needs a touch of reality in his life.

The entire picture is a delight, with bitter-sweet moments at times, but very hilarious moments throughout.

The transfer in High Definition restores the picture to its original splendor, which even in theaters was never that brilliant. The sound is nothing special, being in plain two-channel Mono, but the dialogues are clear, and since the lines in such a picture are the most important element, this is fair enough.

If you want to watch a true odd couple in action, then Michael Caine and Julie Walters are the couple you want.

I can truly recommend it. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary:  Pothead Dunph gets into a little trouble and is spared jail time when his father pulls some strings to get him sent to a prep school instead of jail. He ends up leaving more than just his old friends behind when he goes.
My Opinion:  I was very surprised with this movie. It is pushed very strongly as a comedy. Probably because the Farrelly Brothers are famous for those. Although it has funny parts, I don't consider it a comedy. It is more of a coming of age film. It takes place in the 1970s and has a killer soundtrack. If I had not been so pleasantly surprised I would have given this movie 4 stars but it's nice to be surprised.
DVD Quality: Widescreen anamorphic format. How can they make anything but?
What You Should Do:  See it. If you don't buy every DVD under the sun like some of us then rent it. There is quite a lot of drug use in the film but it does have a point. It may be too subtle of a point for some to grasp though. If you liked "Detroit Rock City", "Almost Famous", or "Varsity Blues" then you should bump this one up on your list of movies to see.
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Deuce Bigalow(Rob Schneider) is hilarious, the movie is super funny and silly,perverted funny. Rob Schneider does not disappoint. Better than the sequel. See this one first. Eddie Griffin Is Hilarious as usual.
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This movie definatley has its high points but it also has its lows. It's an overall funny buddy cop film that will make you chuckle consistently but offers few large laughs. The best part is Will Ferrell doesn't act like a man child for once and just seems like a rather naive man. That makes the film worth watching alone. Want some fun, pick it up, want something serious, try Heat.
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"Drugs, fornicating, a grown man singing about his feelings, it's time we win this war, expunge this school of all dope fiends." Henry Burke (Bush) has everything going for him. He has a scholarship to MIT and is in line to be his classes valedictorian. After an accident leads to detention he is brought back together with his old friend Travis (Marquette). They decide to take a break that night and unwind with a joint. After the school's representative in the national spelling bee loses it on TV the principal (Chiklis) institutes a mandatory drug test for everyone in the school. Fearing he will lose everything Henry and Travis come up with a plan. I am not really a fan of "stoner' comedy (I did like the Harold & Kumar movies) but the plot to this and the cast made it seem interesting to me. I was not disappointed. Adrien Brody is very funny as the man they steal from and Colin Hanks is good as a clueless asst. principle but Michael Chiklis steals the movie. Playing a clueless borderline pervert in charge of the school he is perhaps the funniest clueless principal since Ed Rooney. This is a very different style of stoner comedy and it is more like "Girl Next Door" then "Pineapple Express". This is nothing amazing but I enjoyed it and laughed quite a bit. Overall, a funny movie you can just put in and not think about, those are fun sometimes. I give it a B.
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Skills Like This, winner of the coveted Audience Award at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival, is finally being released on video after amassing a great deal of buzz during its festival circuit. Directed by Monty Miranda, this artful comedy is uniquely amusing.

Spencer Berger stars as Max Solomon, an aspiring writer who realizes his career is going nowhere. Fed up with his ineptitude as a writer, he decides on a whim to rob a bank. He is surprised at how naturally he takes to being a thief. In a Robin Hood-esque turn, he doesn't even keep the money that he steals. Rather, he steals for the exhilarating rush that he feels. His two best friends react differently to his new chosen career as an outlaw. Brian Phelan plays the incredibly daft Tommy, who is fired up and ready for action as Max's accomplice. Gabriel Tigerman is Dave, a much more reserved person with the level headed thought that Max's antics will land all three of them in jail. Lucy (Kerry Knupe) is the attractive bank teller Max robs and not too later finds himself involved with romantically. As Max continues down his blossoming career of thievery, his friends have to make hard choices about the future, especially when his stealing habits begin to effect the people he cares about the most.

As far as special features go, this disc offers thirteen minutes worth of deleted scenes and another seven minutes of cast and crew interviews. Two trailers are included. One of these is a "fundraising trailer," which is a screen test with the cast that is designed to look like it was lifted straight from the movie. The director realized that this movie trailer for a movie that did not yet exist was a fantastic sales tool. In a month and a half, with the aid of this trailer, half of the money necessary to make the movie was raised. The SXSW acceptance speech is included, as well as biographies and information about the soundtrack. All in all this is a nice package of extras.

This offbeat comedy is reminiscent of Fun With Dick and Jane, infused with a splash of Napoleon Dynamite. Skills Like This does a good job highlighting the eclectic music scene in Denver, and the outstanding music displayed throughout the movie is definitely one of the highlights. The chemistry between the cast is genuine, and watching the three friends play off of one another is amusing. Though it is on the shorter side (the runtime is just under 90 minutes) and the ending really leaves some frustrating ends (for one character in particular), this honest indie movie features a comedy style of a very unique brand, and it is worth checking out.
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This is one funny movie. The boys managed to show being a pot head can be a good thing. You might even meet the President. I have only watched parts of the other H&K adventure movie. This movie will make you laugh till it hurts or until you get the munchies.
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An ancient Leprechaun who goes on a terror spree after his bag of gold coins is stolen. This film should be not in the horror section but in the comedy; every line utter by Davis in his faux-angry Irish accent makes me bust out laughing. Leprechaun is not a movie that is to be taken all that seriously. The movie has some scenes that obviously were intentionally comedic, such as the Leprechauns many modes of transport, which include a tricycle, a child's motorized car, a customized go-kart and rollerskates.

The acting is of a better quality than a movie about a killer Leprechaun deserves. Warwick Davis, in his first lead villainous role, is clearly having a riot as the Leprechaun, Jennifer Anniston is good enough as Tory and Ken Olandt is pretty likeable as Nathan. Ozzie and Alex did get slightly annoying, but not enough to warrant a full-blown complaint about it.

The movie is still pretty gory, and some scenes are actually genuinely creepy. The special effects are actually quite good, with the Leprechaun looking nasty and the gore can be horrific.

The cast is filled out by one of the first performances by Jennifer Aniston and a bunch of "B" actors who essentially act as foils in the Leprechaun's quest. This is one of the movies I usually watch in celebration of St Patrick's Day -- along with The Quiet Man and The Fighting 69th -- but what it has in common with those I have no idea other than it was a good film.
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I don't normally care for drug humor but this movie is hilarious.  I love this movie so much I  just had to buy it.
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You won't find any film schools showing this flick, but you will find lots of regular people enjoying it when they sit down to watch.  Liam Neeson is in typical Liam form (at least post-Schindler form), the villains are ugly thugs, and the women are both (no, wait...there is a 3rd woman...she appears twice for a total of about 24 seconds) attractive.  There is plenty of action, and a super-simple story line that drives this 90+ minute film along with nary a wasted camera shot.

This movie is a lot of fun, but it is absolutely ridiculous.  I laughed as I left the theater because of how bad some of the movie is:
1) Liam Neeson's hand-to-hand fighting skills must have atrophied a lot, because every time he is in a fight with a thug (did I mention they were all ugly?) the director uses about 6 camera angles to film the fight, and uses editing so choppy that you can't tell what anyone involved in the fight is doing.

2) Maggie Grace is playing the high-school aged daughter of Liam!  She looks like she's about 30 here, and her bad hair-dye is matched only by her too-brief nude scene (back only, no butt).

3) SPOILER HERE:  The mom is like a character out of the old Monty Python sketch..she is 'not quite dead' about five times in the flick. And every time she's 'not quite dead' all Liam has to do to make her better is pat her back.  It's so funny, that the audience was cracking up the 3rd time it happened.

Overall, this was a fun night at the movies.  I loved how cheesy the movie was, and had a great time.