WordPress your luck

Hello, Spongey here.

Quick announcement


This blog is moving the wordpress. The main reason is that blogger isn't working well for me, for many reasons. so all new posts will move to wordpress. this blog will stay for nostalgia reasons.

So head over to the blogs new location:

http://spongey444.wordpress.com/

Luck of the Irish

Hello, Spongey here

Sorry this review was late. I got busy with other things. Enjoy a review written ON St. Patrick's day

 

Well today is St Patrick’s today. And that’s the day for getting drunk and watching Leprechaun in the hood! (The only proper to watch that film)

Yes, I know it’s about something completely different, if Easter can be about eggs, than who care?

Though South Park explains the latter…with St Peter being a rabbit

So..

ST PATRICK WAS A LEPRECHAUN

….Yea.

So today I will celebrate this day. How? With an obscure Disney channel movie they show every year!

This, is Luck of the Irish

Before we being, I shall mention the director of this movie has done quite a few DCOM’s. He did the other gem, You Wish. What else did he do?

 

…

Well they can’t all be winners

The movie begins with Narration

“Everyone in the world is different from everyone else. That’s easy to see/. But everyone is lucky enough to have one thing in common

They all fight due to their hatred for another race?

He talks about heritage as we find out he does….not know his! We see a dream scene that is typical dream stuff.

This movie needs Christopher Nolan.

He wakes up and we find out Kyle is played by that one dude From Pretty little liars…he was also in another DCOM called Smart House.

We find out he’s a basketball player, and yes, that is very important to the plot. He asks his parent where the family is from and they answer in the typical so awaked it’s obvious they’re hiding something manner.

His mom is played by that chick in Groundhog Day Billy Murray fucks before he goes for Rita. Neat.

He shrugs this off and heads to his basketball game.

We find out he’s the star player, and is actually quite lucky. Can you fill in the blanks? It’s quite hard to guess what the twist is…

He runs into his friends, one of which is a chick in charge of the “Heritage Committee”. You see, this school has heritage day thing, which is why Kyle is so worried about his family and shit.

By the way, his male friend says he is part Cherokee…his actor is black.

You figure that one out.

A bit later, Kyle is late on finishing a test, and just guesses all the answer. Turns out…he got them all right.

Lucky Bastard.

At dinner he tries to get the parents to spill to beans, by not asking at all. Also, his parents are so horrible at trying to seem normal this comes across as parody. But it’s not.

Finally, he just asks, but again, they bullshit. He even says what’s it for, and they won’t even just make it up. This movie with a leprechaun is no unrealistic!

The next day he takes matter into his own hands. He and the chick try looking his family (last name is “Johnson”) but get nothing. Also he doesn’t tell the chick that his parents aren’t giving him jack shit because…I have no idea.

So he looks at home through his dad’s yearbook…and dad isn’t in it! Well, at first. He finds him…but under the name bob smith.

The plot thickens!

He’s with his black friend talking about why this is possible. Kyle shows his luckiness by finding some money.

Then he sees an ad on a bench with this dude named samus, who is irish. He sees a symbol on the ad…that is a lot like the one on his lucky coin.

“Maybe my mom’s  irish!”

YAY YOU HAVE A BRAIN!

He heads to some Irish festival thing to see if there’s more to be Irish. For some reason, there’s  no beer in this movie.

How unrealistic!

He runs to an old man, who is quite friendly towards them. But not in that way, you sicko.

He is played by Henry Gibson, who has a number of film roles under his belt…

And he died in 2009.

Ouch.

The old man vanishes like all old men, and we meet Samus, who gives a speech full of irish stereotypes

Kyle finds himself dancing to the irish music they play and does a cool dance…and then he gets knocked down by one of the carnies.

Haw.

At first he brushes it off…but then he wakes up the next day and…well you’ll see.

After hurting his foot, he goes to breakfast to find that his mom has dyed her hair red, and now has a thick Irish accent.

Well, nothing odd about that.

And she makes Irish foods, and on top of it, Kyle feels a hint of an accent coming from him as well.

So his mom simply spills the beans

“We’re irish”

There, was that so hard?

She lied to him about the Irish thing, because, as she claims, of Irish immigrant stuff and Irish discrimination. Don’t worry; this has more reasoning later on.

Kyle than process to have the worst day ever. First he gets splashes by a big puddle a car drives over, which ruins this money he found.

. He loses his lunch money, his home brought lunch spills all over him, he can't find his homework, and he misses every shot at the basketball game.

And worse, he got no real work after this movie, besides some show on ABC Family.

I’m not funny…

The chick speaks to him and to make a long story short, she bitches at him for being so lucky and not working for anything. You know the drill.

So yea, his life sucks now.

Oh, and his TEAM won so I guess it’s not a total loss. Kyle seems to be learning about hard work and luck and all that shit.

So the next day he heads to school…and everyone hates him for playing badly.

Yes, they won the game but they still feel the need to pick on ONE GUY who played badly.

LOGIC!

EVEN THE MASCOT IS ASHAMED!

During science class he realizes that someone has stolen his lucky gold coin (the fake coin was attracted to a magnet and real gold isn't magnetic).

So the day is saved with SCIENCE! Woot!

Kyle then discovers he’s got shorter, and his hair is much redder. Black friend comments

“"My dad won't let me dye mine. He's got a thing about Dennis Rodman"

Okay, that was funny.

He heads to ask his parents wtf is going on and when he walks in, his mom drops a huge bomb.

“I’m a leprechaun Kyle”

Just stay away from da hood and you’ll be fine.

So yea, turns out he’s part leprechaun and now his mom is very small.

Also I love how dads tries to awkwardly bullshit his way out of it with his WIFE BEING A FOOT TALL. It’s quite funny to be honest.

Kyle is only half-leprechaun, since his dad is from Cleveland, Ohio. It also turns out that the gold coin he wore was the O'Reilly's (Kyle's mother's maiden name) lucky coin, a magic coin. The coin, when in the possession of the youngest family member, allows all the leprechauns in the family to pass as normal human beings, and brings good luck to them all. But since the coin is gone, the family is down on their luck now, and reverting to their real forms.

So that’s our plot. Don’t worry, it gets awesomer…no, I am not joking.

Kyle thinks it may be that weird old guy, After Kyle tells about everything about that man, mom drops another bomb.

That man…was his grandfather.

WHAT A TWEEST

So they think his own grandpa stole the coin…

Wait that makes no sense. He’s a part of their clan, so even if he took the coin, the family would still have luck.

LOGIC

So grandpa owns a potato chip factory…yes, and they head to it. We are then informed of why Kyle really doesn’t know about all this.

Mom’s side of the family didn’t like her marrying a human, so they were kind of pissed. So the family changed their names and made sure they never crossed paths. Yea, I don’t know why they  live in the same town as gramps. But whatever.

They tell the security guard about all this, but he bullshits his way through this, and they get thrown out.

This movie has leprechauns in a chip factory. I love this movie;.

It turns out the chick friend is on a field trip to the factor so Kyle takes her aside to explain all this. But then they both get caught by security and they give chase.

Why is there so muchsecurity for a potato chip factory?

After the chase, the two bump into grandpa, at last. He explains that he did take the coin, of course. He is quite pissed at Kyle’s dumbassery and pretty much calls it end times]

Kyle off handedly mention the Seamus guy from earlier…turn out Seamus is a culprit cuz he has history of evil. Yay, we have a villain!

Gramps meets mom for the first time awhile and…they hate each other. They are pissed for the other is done and mom doesn’t believe Seamus did all this.

After a speech, they decide to stop bitching and go after the evil Seamus. Oh and they pick up the black kid on the way.

They do bump into Seamus…in his RV. So he gives chase. For the time being, we know little about the villain, but that shall change later.

The tire on their car goes out, and they have no spare.

So here, they give up. Kyle tells the others to just go home for the basketball game. He says that he never was good at anything, it was just luck. But after a speech, he learns that luck had nothing to do with it.

And since this is a dramatic moment…it rains!

I’ll skip the speech, but I found this since to be a tad tearing jerking in a way. See the movie and you will know what I mean

The chick heads home and it stops raining, which makes a rainbow.

a…single rainbow if you will.

…

So they chase after it to find the gold at the end. As in, the gold coin,

Sure, why not.

They make it to the bad guys, who stopped to party and, I assume, get drunk. They sneak in to the RV and finally get to the safe that has their gold coin in it.

Grandpa wishes to take the rest of the gold the bad guys have, but after another cute scene, this decide it isn’t worth it. Don’t worry, in context this relates to the plot.

However, they are caught and grandpa becomes a hostage by the villain. Kyle makes a bet with Seamus, that if he can beat him at sports, he must let grandpa go.

After this, we get a long scene of them playing irish sports. I don’t have much to say about this part. It’s fun, but has nothing I can make jokes about.

Anyway, they ultimately tie, and since Kyle did not BEAT Seamus, he must give up the coin

“He’s a master of twisting words. He’d make a lawyer tell the truth!”

That was also funny.

“Give me the coin, boy-o. I don’t want to be getting rough with ya”

…

Ew,.

So he makes a bet with one more sports…Basketball. If Kyle wins, he gets the coin. And in Kyle words “you will never leave the shores of Eerie again.” 

If he loses, Kyle must be his slave…

That makes his last comment even WORSE

So they jump to Kyle’s high school game, where they don’t notice that samus, an adult, is playing with high schcoolers.

K.

So we see the game and stuff happens which I will skip. They mostly help show the moral of the story: your past isn't always as important as the present, but it makes you who you are sometimes it takes more than luck to triumph in the face of adversity. There’s more to it, but that is the basic lesson,

So Kyle beats the bad guy and the day is saved. So Seamus must face his punishment Seamus assumed he was being banished back home do …however you spell the real irish version of Eerie. But kyle REALLY meant LAKE errie over here. So Seamus is shrunk and trapped there forever.

Too good for him, I say!

But of course him comes back in Lucky of the Irish 2: Irish harder

So the bad guy is stooped, Kyle learned a lesson, and he finally perform at the Heritage  thing.

And after a rousing sing a long of this land Is your land or whatever it’s called the movie ends.

This is fairly short, being a TV movie. But in context, it moves fine.

Final Thoughts:

I’ve been watching movie since I was a kid, so I have a bit of Nostalgia for it. But I still think it’s good. Yes, it’s cheesy. Yes, it’s pretty much “Irish Stereotype the movie”, but I still it to be fun and entertaining. Perhaps it could be a guilty pleasure, but I think it is fairly good if you forgot what logic is. The acting is pretty good all around, especially the guy playing the grandpa…

Too bad he’s dead. Well, what better way to end this than to pay respects to a dead guy?

Grade: B