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19 out of 23 people found the following review useful:
Low-Class Fun Comedy-Horror Flick, 6 April 2006

Author: ccthemovieman-1 from United States

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.

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13 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
My favorite of the series., 29 September 2000
Author: lartronic from Akron, Ohio

Of all the "Leprechaun" films, I found this one the funniest. You've got to love his little sayings and remarks. I found the plot entertaining from start to finish, with swell acting and directing, not to mention the comedy! If you want to pick a funny horror flick, rent "Leprechaun 3", you won't be disappointed, unless you're expecting real horror, of course.

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8 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
The Best and the Worst One so far, 14 April 2004
Author: alexduffy2000 (alexduffy2000@yahoo.com) from Hollywood, USA

"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.

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7 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Las Vegas gets more then it bargained for when a lawn ornament turns into a nasty leprechaun!, 28 December 1998

Author: Skeeter700 from British Columbia

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.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
The best film in the LEPRECHAUN franchise!, 5 May 2005
Author: Prolox from Canada

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

In Part 3 to this popular direct to video series, yet another evil Leprechaun is freed from it's imprisonment (It had a necklace around it's neck that turned it into stone a plot device that later turned up in the disastrous fifth instalment to the series, LEPRECHAUN IN THE HOOD) & goes on a killing spree, after a college student named Scott just passing through Vegas on his way to college, stops & picks up a beautiful assistant to a mediocre magician, after the heroine has car trouble. Taking her to a casino, Scott begs her to help him get in, even though he's not the legal age to be gambling. Tammy gets Scott in, when Scott promises just to look around & not gamble, however once inside, Scott is hit with gambling fever & decides to give it a try, using money his parents gave him for college. Unfortunately luck is definitely not on Scott's side, as he loses everything thanks to the crooked manager of the casino rigging everything so people can't win at any of the games. At the pawnshop to pawn off his watch, Scott finds the owner brutally killed & the Leprechaun's lost gold coin & decides to use the coin & make a wish to be on a winning streak. The coin works when Scott turns his unlucky night into a night of success. Scott wins over a hundred thousand dollars! However he also becomes a marked man, as several employees of the Casino want the coin & so does the Leprechaun, killing whomever gets their hands on it to get it back. After biting Scott, Scott turns into a leprechaun monster himself & after going on a potato eating spree, he discovers the only way to end the curse & kill the Leprechaun is to destroy it's gold. LEPRECHAUN 3 is easily the best film in the series. The film is full of great in jokes, wise cracks, bad, but funny puns & pretty decent special effects, an easy flowing pace, good acting & directing. In terms of the plot the film is not to different from the previous two entries. The Leprechaun is freed from it's prison, looses it's shilling & then goes on a rampage to get it back. What's different about this shilling, is the fact that it can grant a persons wish. Director BRIAN TRENCHNARD SMITH who also helmed NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2 the previous year, also brings back some of the same cast members & crew who worked on that film. The most humorous & fun cameo's from the NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2 cast is Father Bob, striking it rich at one of the game tables. Most notably about this entry is how the film has more gore than all the others. Like the first two, the body count is extremely low (About five) but that doesn't mean the kills are lame, far from it, since LEPRECHAUN 3 can lay claim to having the most zaniest off the wall kills in the history of horror cinema & above all the others in the franchise! A muscle man working for a mafia kingpin coughs up quarters (Not a kill, but pretty nifty stuff) an ageing employee of the Casino wishes for bigger breasts, a bigger butt & to be young again & gets her wish, only to have the Leprechaun make her lips, butt & breasts grow to gigantic proportions causing her to explode! A sleazy, crooked casino owner is making out with a nude big breasted hot babe that emerges from the TV set & then she electrocutes him when she morphs into a killer android with all it's mechanical body exposed, with the exception of it's face & boobs! Later the Leprechaun even attends a magic show, where he take the old "Saw the person in half" trick a bit to far! The film's Leprechaun monster also has many similarities to the first f ilm's creature, both have 100 pieces of gold. The films humour is one of the many joyful things about it., Lep meets Elvis Prestly & imitates him. A guy with the word "Lucky" tattooed to his hand tries to pawn off the Leprechaun statue, telling the clerk it will bring him good luck, yet this guy who's trying to sell it, has a missing eye, a missing hand & a missing leg! Several things don't make sense though, when Scott first discovers the body early on in the film he calls the cops, yet none of them show up & it's never mentioned in the rest of the film, especially when Scott & the heroine return to the pawn shop hours later & discover the body still there & there's no cops around! Also I find it a little hard to believe that no one else would have walked into this shop in all that time. Another thing that doesn't make sense is, the Leprechaun bites Scott & turns him into a leprechaun, yet the film never does answer the question as to why? surely the Leprechaun realizes after all these centuries that it's bites can turn a person so why did it do it? it obviously doesn't want competition? as with the last couple films & the ones after it, there's a different way to kill the creature, this time is to burn it's gold. Also worth noting is that this is the first Leprechaun film to not have a kill until the half hour mark. Highly recommended to horror fans, but if you didn't like any of the other ones, perhaps it's best you ignore this one. With Part 2 being released a week apart from NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2 & with this sequel arriving a mere ten months after LEPRECHAUN 2, one has to wonder if all three of the films weren't shot back to back. Director Smith later returned to helm the fourth film in the series LEPRECHAUN 4 the very next year.

***1/2 stars

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Better than 1 and 2, but that's not really saying much., 4 January 1999

Author: Jon Liming from Mesa, Az

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.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Two Leps too much, 3 August 2005

Author: Punk19 from Chester, Virginia

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

He's back! The Leprechaun is on the loose again, this time trying his luck in Las Vegas. The terror begins when a young college student;Scott MCcoy(John Gatins) gives a beautiful magician's assistant;Tammy Larsen(Lee Armstrong)a lift into town.

Once in Vegas, Scott can't resist taking a turn at the roulette wheel. He has a run of bad luck and loses all his money. To win it back he decides to pawn his Rolex watch, but while at the pawn shop he finds one of the Leprechaun's gold shillings. A single piece of Leprechaun's gold, he discovers, will grant the fondest wish of the one who holds it.

Thanks to the lucky coin, Scott goes on a winning streak. Unfortunately, the Leprechaun know his coin is missing and he will gladly kill to get it back. And kill he will.

Along with more magic and a lot more funny gags this hits up as the third best of the Leprechaun series. I believe the best death was the Saw treatment Fazio(John DeMita)got. But Loretta(Caroline Williams),Gupta(Marcelo Tubert) and Mitch's(Michael Callan) deaths are good too. And this time we get to see two leprechauns dook it out with brains,brawns and humor.

Lets see what we learn in this movie:

1)A leprechaun loves potatoes 2)A leprechaun has a hideous stomach.(If their stomachs are like that I wonder what everything else looks like.) 3)Leprechaun gold can grant one wish. (That's one gold piece. So if you got 100 pieces of gold I guess you get 100 wishes.)

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Leprechaun goes to Vegas, 13 June 2009

Author: kai ringler from United States

this time the jolly old Leprechaun goes to Las Vegas. this one is quite a bit more funnier than the previous two. although not quite as good in storyline , but good nonetheless. in this one you actually get to see some people make wishes with the elusive gold coin, the coin get's passed from one person to another, and it always seems like the little Leprechaun is always one step behind,, the interesting thing in this one is that the leprechaun bites our "hero" in the arm,, and the "hero" has shades of becoming a fellow Leprechaun, interesting premise here, he actually starts to look a little bit like one, there is a lot of scenes in the casino,, and views of the Las Vegas Strip.. the Freemont Experience and a few of the Casino Hotels.. not a bad movie,, pretty funny.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Easily my favorite of the series. It's the most fun!, 4 February 2009

Author: Dragoneyed363 from United States

After getting the Leprechaun trilogy as one of my gifts for Christmas, I decided to watch them all right away, because I had been dying to view the first. Leprechaun 3 was just overall so much more enjoyable than I expected it to be. The cast and crew just had so much fun with all the material and since they knew they weren't going to make a star-studded masterpiece, they went with the best option and created a hilarious and exciting "camp gem", unlike the second one which took itself too seriously, and look how that turned out.

Leprechaun 3 is just non-stop laugh out loud entertainment. With rhymes like the leprechaun makes in this one, you can't help but laugh your tail off at how cheesy and humorous the whole film is. Also, I guess since the acting wasn't as low as you can get in some movies of this caliver, it made the movie even more tolerable and likable, and since the leprechaun was more lovable, the film was more lovable. Plus, the main guy in this film is not too bad on the eyes, such as eye candy Jennifer Aniston in the first.

Overall, there has got to be something anyone and everyone could like about this film. It deserves higher appreciation than the first and second put together for being so incredibly fun and humorous, like I have already mentioned, and is worthy of any positive reception it receives in fact, in honest my opinion.

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2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
still pretty bad, 24 May 2003

Author: colinwhitefan

Leprechaun 3 is not great, but is a little better than Leprechaun 2. Leprechaun loses some gold, kills some people in Vegas, and the gold's power hurts more than helps the people who have possession of it. Leprechaun 3 has some funny scenes that supposed to be scary, but are so poor they are comical, I would rent this for stupid scary scenes, nudity, and killing. Leprechaun 3 is bad and the sequels are somehow worse if you can believe that.

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