Disney's Tone-deaf "Irish" Movie

Omg just noticed how many views this has gotten!!! I'm so proud 🥹

I never quite understood why they didn’t just tell him he is half Irish.

The reason the grandpa is so obsessed with making his own shoes is because in Irish folklore, Leprechauns are sometimes depicted as cobblers. Some stories have them making shoes as a profession, while in others they just mend their own shoes after running around so much and wearing them down. It was a cheeky reference to Irish folklore that not many people pick up on their first watch!

As someone who is half Irish I can confirm this movie describes the average half Irish experience

As an Irish man... I LOVED this movie as a kid

Can confirm, I'm Irish on both sides of my family and I came out of the womb knowing how to step dance and we don't have a stove.

As an Irishman myself, I can confirm that we Irish are NOT offended by anything because we have better things to worry about.

The evil leprechaun Seamus is played by Timothy Omundson! He was in Psych, Supernatural, Galavant, and the new Percy Jackson series. He's a great actor and dancer and it's hilarious to see him in this shitty movie. Also as an Irish person, can confirm all we do is cook in the fireplace, make shoes, play basketball, create family drama, and breakdance

Gen Z discovering these movies is cracking me up

“Well at least they got paid” is crazy. 😭 I know, buddy.

This movie made “Lake Eerie” sound like an epic mic drop.

I remember this movie playing literally every st.patricks day on disney channel for years when i was a child, keep in mind I was born like 3 years after this movie came out so they were airing this for at least 7 years after it first came out. the only thing i really remembered was his mom was secretly a leprechaun and evil leprechauns were trying to attack them.

The erie unsettling thing was fully intentional. You had to have been there lol. You must not have seen any of the early DCOMs. It's a lot easier to accept a boy turning into a magical leprechaun after you see a boy turn into a mermaid.

As someone who's real name is Kyle and is actually 1/8th Irish and plays basketball sometimes this movie hit me hard as a kid. I'm not from Ohio though (thank god)

I've never played bagpipes, but I listen to them live at Renaissance fairs all the time. From my understanding, they can be played without blowing as long as there's air in them. There's this girl named Ally the Piper who's was accused of faking because she smiles while playing sometimes, and she explained it better than I can.

Just FYI, the book you mention about being Irish is a reference to the book called "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask"

Entire film: This movie is about Irish characters Ending: MERCA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Bro why is it so bad to tell your kid he's Irish lmao.

The thing with the grandps talking about shoes all the time is because leprechauns are obsessed with shoes. Making them, cleaning them, etc. Also that wasn't an "evil leprechaun dimension" they got transported to during the climax, that's just Ireland.

“When you make your own shoes youre the master of your own feet” i feel like they had other plotlines cut from this movie because Kyle starts dancing after the bad guy touches him, like many other people in the crowd, and the grandpa calls the bad guy a faer darrig which i looked up and its like an irish faerie so i feel like they had to of cut something out of this movie that made the shoes somewhat relevant. Idk this movie wouldve been a lot cooler if it explored more irish folklore rather than just being like “all irish people are leprechauns🤷🏼🍀”