3/17/2023 0 Comments Operation dumbo drop![]() The movie constantly making a joke about Doug E.Denis Leary revealing that he slept with a general's wife, but only because he thought she was his daughter (?).The elephant waking up in the middle of an airplane flight and nearly killing everyone on board.Ray Liotta having to give the elephant a tranquilizer pill…rectally.Their journey is filled with memorable moments, such as: So the movie follows the soldiers as they attempt to transport their elephant Bo Tat and the elephant's orphaned human friend Linh across the country. Just a friendly reminder that THE REF is a great movie. Even Denis Leary once admitted in an interview that he, Glover and Liotta all carried around pictures of the houses they were going to buy with their salaries to help get them through the shoot. And it's not just me thinking this was a paycheck role for everyone involved. Liotta and Glover have decent chemistry as the constantly bickering officers, but the whole cast just completely phones it in, which is not surprising given the material. Doug, playing a soldier who has a week left on his tour and doesn't want to take anymore dangerous risks, and Denis Leary as a requisitions officer who can make a phone call and find anybody anything in the middle of a war, including an elephant. (Yes, there's actually a deadline for when they need to drop Dumbo.) Liotta and Glover have no choice but to put together a crack team for the job that includes COOL RUNNINGS' Doug E. Naturally, the townspeople blame Liotta's arrival as bad luck and refuse to help the Americans, unless they can get them a brand new, better elephant by Friday. (In case you're counting, that's at least two dead Dumbos in the first 15 minutes of this kids movie.)ĭamn you, Disney! When will your blood lust ever be satiated?! He meets the villagers he will be living with…and then their elephant is immediately murdered by the North Vietnamese Army. I get that OPERATION DUMBO HANG doesn't have the same ring to it, but the thought of some Disney exec hearing the real story and being like, "F*ck that, make that son of a bitch skydive!" is kind of hilarious.Įveryone always fought over who got to be Wesley Snipes with their DROP ZONE cosplay.įollowing in the Disney parent-murdering tradition of BAMBI and THE LION KING, OPERATION DUMBO DROP opens with a heartwarming scene of a young Vietnamese boy and his family peacefully riding their elephants through a beautiful river-before soldiers abruptly launch a mortar attack and murder nearly everyone, both humans and animal.Ĭut to six years later and no-nonsense Green Beret Ray Liotta arrives in a remote village to replace a retiring Danny Glover (still too old for this shit!) and oversee a covert mountainside mission. While the military did bring elephants to strategic villages during the war, they just flew the tranquilized animals inside of planes or in extreme cases, airlifted them via helicopter for part of the journey. Can you imagine the ludicrous discussions they must've had before greenlighting this? The film also claims it was "inspired by a true story," but it's not that true. This is one of those movies where I'd give anything to be a fly on the wall during the studio meeting where this was pitched. Then there's the entire hook of the film, which leaves you waiting almost two hours just to see a poor, terrified elephant get tossed out of a plane. At best, you end up with something that is just tonally bizarre, and really…was anybody even asking for this? It's a fine, but not impossible line to walk (thinking of something like GOOD MORNING VIETNAM), but Disney's trademark bloodless, warm and fuzzy treatment of the subject matter sanitizes everything to the point of near-fantasy. You're already off to a rocky start just making a family-friendly comedy about the Vietnam War, one where the long-suffering Vietnamese people grow to love and respect American soldiers through fun, animal-related shenanigans. Ray Liotta was caught off guard at the first meeting of the NARC International Fan Club. ![]() Stars: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis LearyĮven as a kid I realized OPERATION DUMBO DROP was a really weird movie…and it hasn't gotten any better 25 years later. Want to feel old? Disney released one of its strangest movies 25 years ago this week…
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