CAST: Warwick Davis, Brent Jasmer, Jessica Collins, Guy Siner, Debbe Dunning, Rebekah Carlton, Miguel A. Nunez Jr., Tim Colcer
SCR: Dennis Pratt
DIR: Brian Trenchard-Smith
STUDIO: Trimark Home Video

If this was intended to be so-bad-it's-good, plant a pliant kiss on the Baloney Stone in dubious honor of this fourth in a series starring Warwick Davis as a mean-spirited, wisecracking elf of Irish folklore.

With no explanation, Leprechaun is suddenly in the distant future on a farflung planet, seducing Princess Zarina (Debbe Dunning, the "Tool Time" girl on TV's "Home Improvement"), whom he has kidnapped from the planet Daminian.

Along comes a rocket loaded with space marines and a blonde biologist (Jessica Collins) to rescue the royal dame. Leprechaun gets blown to pieces but, back on the ship, regenerates himself through the penis of one of the dumber spacetroopers. And just when he thought it was safe to unzip.

Now the screenplay by Dennis Pratt, who had to have been in an enlightened, heightened state of mind when he cranked this one out, really gets good: Dr. Mittenhand (Guy Siner) exists from the chest up only, the torso attached to a computer machine, and he orders his men to eliminate the destructive Leprechaun while he injects himself with Zarina's rejuvenating DNA.

Unfortunately, since Leprechaun can work magical spells and keeps coming back to life each time he's eviscerated, nobody stands a chance, not even heroic Brent Jasmer. Finally through the DNA injection, the German doc gets turned into a giant spider (now you can call him Dr. Mittenspider).

Meanwhile meanwhile Leprechaun eliminates the troopers one by one for command of the ship, while a computer voice does a countdown to a timebomb that will blow everyone up. (Say, didn't they do that one before?)

Meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile, Zarina bares her wonderful breasts, explaining for a minute or so (with the camera never looking away from her fully exposed mounds during the lengthy, philosophical dissertation) that anyone who sees these nifty knockers is going to get knocked off (an old custom on Daminian).

This is certainly the most pleasant moment in this film, since director Brian Trenchard-Smith focuses mostly on exploding bodies and other forms of mutilation to human flesh while Leprechaun makes puns and sings "Danny Boy."

Yes, you have to see LEPRECHAUN 4: IN SPACE to believe that this movie ever got produced.

--reviewed by JOHN STANLEY

Evaluation: D 'n A (D for being so bad and A for being so bad it's good)