I decided to take a look at this movie again because I saw it as a kid on TV. I started to watch it and thought some of the humor was pretty funny.
So a pawn shop guy gets a statue and a medallion, of course the guy who brings it in says "Don't touch the Medallion" so what does Pawn Shop guy do: EXACTLY THAT! There are 2 showdowns with the Leprechaun and the Shop Owner, with the Leprechaun victorious at their last meeting. Their meetings happen because 1. He's the shop owner and 2. There's one piece of gold missing. Then there's the convenient thing where the shop owner was looking up Leprechaun lore on the computer, that plays into the next section At the casino, Scott--our hero--is having a losing streak, then goes to pawn the watch and finds the dead shop owner dead. The next thing Scott does is accidentally going up to the computer and unpausing it at the time that the gold shilling is told to have magic powers: Granting a wish. He makes his wish: A winning streak.
That's where it all gets complicated. The gold coin shifts hands so many times and the Leprechaun keeps killing until the final showdown; which has something to do with Scott not feeling quite like himself.
All in all, it's a farce, a decent but predictable farce.
So a pawn shop guy gets a statue and a medallion, of course the guy who brings it in says "Don't touch the Medallion" so what does Pawn Shop guy do: EXACTLY THAT! There are 2 showdowns with the Leprechaun and the Shop Owner, with the Leprechaun victorious at their last meeting. Their meetings happen because 1. He's the shop owner and 2. There's one piece of gold missing. Then there's the convenient thing where the shop owner was looking up Leprechaun lore on the computer, that plays into the next section At the casino, Scott--our hero--is having a losing streak, then goes to pawn the watch and finds the dead shop owner dead. The next thing Scott does is accidentally going up to the computer and unpausing it at the time that the gold shilling is told to have magic powers: Granting a wish. He makes his wish: A winning streak.
That's where it all gets complicated. The gold coin shifts hands so many times and the Leprechaun keeps killing until the final showdown; which has something to do with Scott not feeling quite like himself.
All in all, it's a farce, a decent but predictable farce.