The first “Leprechaun” was easily one of the worst horror movies I’ve seen and “Leprechaun 2” is just more of the same. I just don’t get the appeal of the franchise and I can’t believe that there are so many darn sequels. However, this was the last one in the original run to get a theatrical release. When even “Hellraiser” gets more theatrical sequels than your franchise (and we know just how bad some of those “Hellraiser” sequels are), you know you have got a real problem.

The Leprechaun (Warwick Davis “Willow”, “Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi”) is out to get himself a bride. The vile little creature has his sights set on Bridget (Shevonne Durkin “Tammy and the T-Rex”), who is a descendant of a slave of the Leprechaun.

The Leprechaun character is just awful. I never found him funny or entertaining. He’s just so annoying that I wanted to kick him every time he was on the screen. The rest of the characters are painfully dull and the performances are so amateurish. We just don’t care about the girl or any of the people we see. Nobody is even remotely intelligent in this movie. Clint Howard (“Apollo 13”, “The Ice Cream Man”) has a small role.

This is just as terrible as the first movie. I went into this thinking that it has to be better than the first one but the two are almost indistinguishable from one another. The first one had a young Jennifer Aniston (“Picture Perfect”) in it and that’s about the only real difference. This sequel does actually take place on St. Patrick’s Day so you might consider this a holiday movie. If the Leprechaun just wants his gold then he can have it, as long as it means he stops making movies.