1/5 One star only for the synergy of an elf doing a unit in the bushes
  by Sid the Elf (North Pole)
Meaningless National Holidays are the best, aren't they? We, Sid the Elf, certainly think so. They give us the chance to, among other things, watch a ton of B and consume a copious ammount of food. If there is a better combination, other than the trifecta, Sid has yet to find it. So, we decided to honor Christopher Columbus in the best way possible by double-dipping B and getting some unbelievable Italian take-out to honor the famous Italian explorer. The first selection was Leprechaun in the Hood. We can admit that we got suckered in by even the slightest possibility of seeing the leprechaaun(Sid's Irish cousin) chase Ice-T around with a pink turkey baster. Well, that didn't happen. So we were disappointed by that and by the film overall.

This film started with a scene set in the 70's. Ice-T's character Mack Daddy(lots of thought went into that one) and an equally fro'ed buddy went on a treasure hunt in the cave of the Irish elf. They take the necklace from around the leprechaun's neck which awakens him from his state of stone. The leprechaun procedes to stab Ice-T's buddy in the throat with a 'fro pick and he attempts to kill Ice-T, but honestly, who hasn't? Anyway, Ice manages to get the necklace back onto Irish Sid's neck and turn him back to stone after stealing the leprechaun's magical flute that mesmerizes anyone who hears it. Then we flash-forward to the present(2000) where Mack Daddy is a big-shot record producer, presumably due largely to his magical flute. One of the groups eager to catch Mack Daddy's eye and play his flute were three complete wackbags from Compton. Now, this flick took the early 90's Compton thing and tried to make it play in 2000. This probably wouldn't have worked even if the group in question here wasn't trying to convey a positive message using a "gangsta rap" style. Not surprisingly, Mack Daddy didn't sign the three cool cats. So, they decide to rob/trash Mack Daddy's house. In the course of the robbery, Mack Daddy takes a bullet and the leprechaun, who is in stone form sitting in a glass case in Mack Daddy's office is freed. Also, the rappers take Mack Daddy's flute. So these three now have Ice-T and the leprechaun chasing after them in order to get the flute back. The guys then decide to hide out with a drag queen, take a few pointers then cross-dress, themselves as Sid is quite sure they had previously done many times. They end up using the flute to proceed in the rap world and...ok we'll be honest, we started fast-forwarding at this point because even we couldn't take it anymore. We only stopped at two points in the rest of the movie. One was when we spotted Coolio(yep, he was available) and decided to throw some easy jokes his way. The other was undoubedly the highlight of this movie and probably all of the Leprechaun movies. The Leprechaun burned a unit. Really, just a holistic, watershed moment in Sid's B-watching life.

What we really don't understand is how this film went wrong. There was an elf as the main character with Surviving the Game alum Ice-T as a major focal point. Coolio even made an apperance which led to a ton of good cracks. Running the risk of sounding inarticulate, this movie was just plain stupid. The rappers were unbelievably unlikable and they reeked of "If this isn't my big break, I have 50 years of Mickey D'd ahead of me" desperation. The plot was ridiculous with the inexplicable cross-dressing/drag queens. And there wasn't enough leprechaun. Irish Sid was only in about a half of the film. We needed to see a lot more of that little mainiac running around offing people with a potato or a magic bottle of Jameson's or something. We grew tired of the rapping and internal strife within the rap group aspect really quickly. Just a terrible film all around. Take our word for it, if we couldn't even make it through the entire film, it's utterly awful. Don't waste your time. Well, unless you'd get a kick out of seeing Irish Sid puff. That was a phenomonal 10 seconds.

5/5 Clearly the best Leprechaun movie ever.
  by Ted E. Kissel (Greencastle IN)
This movie was great better then any other Leprechaun movie I'd ever seen. It was so freaking funny. Nothing goes to gather better then a magic 24 K gold flute, Leprechauns, and rappers trying to make it big. And just for the record, the second best Leprechaun movie of the series was the 4th one and the 3rs was the first. And I know this is a bit off topic, but I didn't like Leprechaun back 2 Da Hood near as much as the original.

1/5 Maybe the worst movie in history
  by Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
This movie has atrociously bad...well...everything. Between the ridiculous scenarios, the third-grade plot, the acting and sound effects that would draw boos at one of those "make your own music video" booths in the mall, possibly the most ignorant script ever written, and rapping worse than Vanilla Ice's second album, I was genuinely nauseated by this execrable, banal rubbish. Everyone involved with this project should be black-listed from Hollywood, and forbidden from ever being filmed again (even home movies).

If it weren't for the fact that no movie will ever have a funnier "setting a midget on fire"-scene, this movie would be a complete and unequivocal waste.

3/5 ICE T ROCKS
  by M. Downey (New York, NY USA)
Not as entertaining as its sequel "Back to Da Hood", but you gotta love ICE T.

1/5 IRISH RAPPER
  by Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA)
Here we go again...not only is this fifth entry in the LEPRECHAUN series unimaginative and repetitive, 95% of the dialogue contains profanity, profanity and more profanity. Shows that writers sometimes can't come up with legitimate dialogue and think that everyone in the world likes to use the F word in every sentence.
Aside from that though, the leprechaun franchise is worn out. The little leprechaun is always after his gold and the people who steal it are usually numbnuts or just simply stupid. The rap "music" in this film is bland and boring; the effects dimestore quality and hopefully even though there IS still another hood movie out, we won't be subjected to any more. Enough!!!