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Operation Dumbo Drop

1995 theatrical release poster

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Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)

I'm often asked, “With so many good movies out there, why waste your time on bad ones?”  Quite simply, I give every movie a chance. You never know. After seeing Operation Dumbo Drop, I wonder if this isn't naive optimism. I can’t imagine any way this story could’ve worked.

Set during the Vietnam War, Captain T. C. Doyle (Ray Liotta) is taking over from Captain Sam Cahill (Danny Glover), who has been living in the village of Dak Nhe, significant due to its proximity to a clandestine weapons supply route used by the Viet Cong. When Doyle’s actions cause the death of the village’s elephant, the Americans set to make amends by finding a replacement pachyderm.

There are many reasons why this film simply doesn’t work and the most obvious one is the rating. This is a PG-rated war film. Consequently, there are numerous moments where people are knocked on the head instead of being shot. Repeatedly, we’re explicitly shown that a boatload of soldiers jump ship before it gets blown up, etc. It’s bad enough that we’re focussing on, let’s admit it, a trivial, cutesy little story set during the war. It’s made worse by treating it as a game. I dunno why soldiers have traumatizing flashbacks of 'Nam; you get to hang out with elephants and make friends with little kids, stealing army material gets you a slap on the wrist and hardly anyone died. What's the big deal?

Even if you made this a hard-hitting, brutally honest R-rated picture and made the picture's villain, Captain Quang (Vo Trung Anh), someone to be legitimately featured you still wouldn’t have a very good movie. The characters are single schtick cardboard cut-outs. Without even looking at what the real story was, you can easily pick out every scene inserted to stretch what would’ve probably been a since-column newspaper story to feature film length. The movie feels phony with its lack of blood, violence or death and feels even more artificial with all of the wacky shenanigans on display.

To this operation’s credit, it does become less grating as it goes along. This may be due to the climax, which is absolutely preposterous and so stupid you’ll actually crack a smile - something that never happens in any of the previous scenes, no matter how hard director Simon Wincer tries.

Someone at Disney learned of this goofy chapter in American Warfare, which is why there are references to Dumbo throughout the film. This thin thread led to the creation of a big, artificial stinker. I say next time, take more liberties. Make the elephant actually fly so we can wrap this up in an hour. Actually, go even further. Make it a teleporting elephant so we only have a five-minute movie. (On YouTube, January 19, 2018)

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Operation Dumbo Drop, 1995

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Fact

Operation Dumbo Drop is a sublime, underappreciated masterpiece. I will not be swayed on this. 

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Wounded four times in Vietnam and now a chronicler of that war, Jim Morris is still proud of his service there.

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Dumbo is a funny thing, the Dumbo has movies like an hour and 10 minutes, so fill them with much more action. His plot is about Colin Farrell

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Dumbo 1941 - RapidDrama

Dumbo was only Disney's fourth animated feature film and tells the story of a baby circus elephant named Jumbo Jr. who is mockingly nicknamed Dumbo