Today (May 13th) is National Leprechaun Day! (Am I the only one who thought this would be in March?) It seems odd that we are celebrating what could be the luckiest beings in the world on Friday the 13th. Maybe the good luck and bad luck will cancel each other out.
I did not want to dress up like a leprechaun to celebrate today so I decided to find a nice leprechaun friendly movie to watch instead.
When Kyle Johnson loses his lucky coin odd things start to happen and he learns that he is part leprechaun.
Kyle has been lucky all his life. He is great at basketball. He never loses anything. He finds money wherever he goes. But when someone switches his lucky coin with a fake all that changes. And when his mother starts to act differently and speak with an Irish accent he knows something is going on. It's a Disney made for TV movie, so it is kid safe in the extreme. Nothing really bad happens to anyone, there is no swearing or violence. I can see how children would have fun with this and as an adult it is something I didn't mind watching either. There were some moments when you just had to remind yourself you are watching a children's movie and let it go. Kyle wants to know about his heritage but when he asks his parents they say they are from Cleveland and act all suspicious instead of just saying he's Irish or telling him where the completely human side of his family is from. But that sort of thing is for comic effect and you just have to go with it. You know, for the children. It's silly at times but fun too. I enjoyed watching as Kyle's leprechaun side started coming out and he staring using phases like 'Oh, saints preserve us!' all of a sudden. And Merriman did a good job with the role. It isn't something I would choose to watch again myself, but if my niece is over it is a family friendly movie that won't have me tearing out my hair.
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