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November 2000
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Well, then. It's a good thing I can't spell 'abomanable", or this
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have been a much more scathing review. This movie is so devoid of scares it
makes me yearn for the sheer terror of the frighteningly arranged rock piles
of the original. If the purpose of this film was to make the first one look
good, then they've done a damn fine job, since the cinematic majesty of
bothersome people yelling at each other while the camera has what appears to
be multiple epileptic seizures is about three steps up from this
simple-minded trash . Granted, there were a few creepy moments, like the
part where I fell asleep and the scary music gave me nightmares about
midgets, or the part where I thought I saw the guy who used to bully me in
junior high sitting in the seat in front of me, but it just turned out to be
a stack of coats. While the first movie at least had a marginally
interesting plot and some partially compelling stock characters, this movie
has carefully sifted through the recycling bins of bad screenwriters the
world over to come up with the most stupendously cliched characters in the
history of bad horror movies. There's not a single character on the screen
that I wouldn't kill myself given half the chance, and remember you're
talking to a guy who once sat through the entire Leprechaun series. Twice.
So you know my annoyance threshold is fairly high. The writers, in this
case Dick Beebe and Joe Berlinger, threw in every possible irritating
stereotype imaginable: goths, wiccans, stoners, commies, women... even a
token redneck sheriff. All they need is some sassy black comic relief and
they could do a sitcom. The picture even runs about as long as a TV show,
mostly due to the fact that the filmmakers seem to get as bored as the
audience and just kind of end the movie sometime during the fifth reel. And
judging from missing scenes in the trailer, much of the film has been edited
out, making for some rather glaring omissions, such as any semblance of a
satisfying conclusion. Plus, the closest thing to an actual Book of Shadows
in the movie is a decidedly unscary road map, which is not exactly
edge-of-your-seat material. But then again, neither was Leprechaun 4.
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