* It's a film about a leprechaun in the hood.
* It's a film in which the main antagonist is a figure from Irish mythology.
* The main characters are in a rap trio who play surprisingly listenable old-school beats throughout the movie. One of them is named Postmaster P.
* The leader of the rap trio, the aforementioned Postmaster P, is torn between spreading a positive message to urban youth and selling out to Ice-T's record-mogul character by glorifying violence and greed in his raps.
* Ice-T has many scenes with the leprechaun. In one of them, he introduces the leprechaun to marijuana.
* Ice-T pulls a baseball bat from his Afro in the movie's first scene.
* Coolio makes an appearance for exactly two shots, has no dialogue, hovers in a doorway for both shots, and never appears in the film again. He receives star billing in the movie's opening credits.
* The leprechaun is played by Warwick Davis, who portrayed an Ewok named Wicket in Return of the Jedi. He also played Willow.
* There's scene in which a transvestite removes his shirt, baring his chest, which has been shaved and sprayed with something--cooking spray is my guess--to make it shine. It's very sensual. One's reaction to the sight of a transvestite's nipples is surprisingly complex and ambivalent.
* This transvestite later appears to seduce the leprechaun, but then the leprechaun kills the transvestite. The leprechaun kills the transvestite while both are in bed, lending enormous uncertainty to what happened between the two before the killing.
* There's also a scene in which the leprechaun transforms himself into the former girlfriend of a pawn-shop owner and seduces him. The leprechaun's sexual predilections are genuinely interesting throughout the film.
* Because he also creates an army of zombie whores whose eyes glow green behind black Wayfarers.
* The trio's DJ is a virgin. He's very up-front about it.
* The trio's DJ dies while wearing a dress and makeup.
* Postmaster P is also wearing a dress and makeup when the trio's DJ dies because the two of them were attempting to seduce the leprechaun in an attempt to get him to smoke a four-leaf-clover-laced joint. This is one of the most sexually complex films ever made.
* The leprechaun raps over the end credits. It's unfortunate.
* The special effects are suitably gory, including several scenes in which things explode in or through people's chests, and the leprechaun's makeup and costuming is convincing. You really believe that you're watching a former Ewok dressed up like a leprechaun and pretending to kill people.
* The end of the movie makes no sense at all, but it suggests that Postmaster P in some ways stands firm in his positive beliefs even when confronted with leprechaunic death.
* It's a much, much, much better film than Leprechaun 4: Leprechaun in Space.

—Tim Feeney