Danny Glover and Ray Liotta deliver 8 000 lbs. of fun and laughs in Disney's jumbo-sized hit comedy! A seasoned army captain (Glover) is teamed with a hard-nosed officer (Liotta) to conduct the ""biggest"" military manoeuvre ever - to secretly transport a full-grown elephant to a remote and virtually inaccessible jungle village. By land sea and air calamity and chaos prevail upon their hilariously mismatched team of would-be heroes. But with a little luck - and tons of hard work -
It is 1968. The Green berets are knee-deep in the jungles of Vietnam, fighting to save Montagnard villagers from the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. But in the midst of it all, as the war is raging, the sound of a plane is heard overhead. Its cargo contains no weapons, no provisions for the troops. No, it is none other than... an elephant... descending by parachute to the waiting villagers below.
Operation Dumbo Drop was a mission conducted by the 5th Special Forces in Vietnam. Were it not for the fateful day the Dumbo Drop mission took place - the day Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated - this would have been a newsworthy event. Instead, it just became a pleasant anecdote, told by those involved to their friends and families. And in the mid-nineties, it became a rather disappointing Disney venture.
To paraphrase good ol' Hamlet, "The screenplay's the thing." Absolutely. So when a script turns out to be as thin as this one (verging on the anorexic), all comic potential is horrendously scuppered, and a first-rate cast (Ray Liotta, Danny Glover and Denis Leary) is hideously squandered.
The film only really comes alive for the climactic Dumbo Drop (pretty exciting), having proven dull, predictable (there's the inevitable faecal fun - I mean, after all, the film does star an elephant) and corny. The elephant herself (named Tai) is wonderful, but her companion (a young Vietnamese boy) is downright unwatchable (although, to be fair, his scenes are excruciatingly written).
Not goofy enought to please the kids, nor clever enough to win over the adults, the cinematic Dumbo Drop well-and-truly misses its (artistic) mark.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Danny Glover and Ray Liotta deliver 8,000 lbs of fun and laughs in Disney's jumbo-sized hit comedy! A seasoned army captain (Glover) is teamed with a hard-nosed officer (Liotta) to conduct the "biggest" military to a remote and virtually inaccessible jungle village. By land, sea and air, calamity and chaos prevail upon their hilariously mismatched team of would-be heroes. But, with a little luck - and tons of hard work- they learn that no mission is impossible. A triumphantly funny crowd pleaser based on a true story, OPERATION DUMBO DROP weighs in as a terrific family entertainment!
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