History Film / OperationDumboDrop

->''"I should be on a top secret mission with crack commandos, but instead I'm in an episode of ''Series/McHalesNavy'' starring Disney/{{Dumbo}}, [[Series/FamilyAffair Mr. French]], and Film/TheThreeStooges!"''

** Col. Nyugen forced his lieutenant to shoot the village's first elephant.

* OperationBlank: "Dumpo drop" in this case because they're dropping a "flying" elephant.

* BadButt: The setting of the Vietnam War combined with the fact that this was a Disney movie lead to a lot of fights in which the soldiers shoot their guns into the air to distract the Vietcong, then incapacitate them with judo throws.

''Operation Dumbo Drop'' is a 1995 Creator/{{Disney}} live-action film set during the Vietnam War. In it, Capt. T.C. Doyle (Creator/RayLiotta), a hard-nosed Green Beret, is assigned to a local village to keep watch on the Ho Chi Minh trail. There he meets up with with Capt. Sam Cahill (Creator/DannyGlover). While the two are out scouting the trail, the Vietcong raid the village, discovering a chocolate bar wrapper, meaning the villagers were harboring American troops. As punishment, they shoot their prized elephant.

Along the way, the V.C.s are tipped off about what they are doing and, in an effort to keep them from keeping their word, set out to stop them. This begins a chase through the [[SceneryPorn deep, green jungles of South Vietnam]], which ends when they find the only way they can get the elephant to the village -- is up.

** The V.C. have to do this rapidly when H.A. orders a artillery strike on their boat after properly calculating the time the shell would land upon it from a previously fired marking round (see [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt Exactly What I Aimed At]] below).

* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: On the river, H.A. nearly drops a marking shell on the boat he's riding in. The V.C. laugh...until they realize that their boat is moving right into the spot H.A. just marked.

* ABoyAndHisX: Linh and Bo Tat are A Boy and his Elephant.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Doyle gives an EnRouteSumUp on how the para-jumping into Dak Neh is supposed to go. Like everything else on their adventure, things start going wrong.

** The V.C. have to do this rapidly when H.A. orders a artillery strike on their boat after properly calculating the time the shell would land upon it from a previously fired marking around (see {{ExactlyWhatIAimedAt}} below).

* ASimplePlan: The main plan: roll to the town with Bo Tat. Then vehicles start malfunctioning. And the elephant is scared. Then the Viet-Cong patrols start escalating. Then the mission gets shut down because of bean-counters. And in between... let's just say that nothing that these guys do ever goes according to plan despite how simple it sounded on paper.

* ASimplePlan: Nothing that these guys do ever goes according to plan despite how simple it sounds on paper.

* HonorBeforeReason: Upon learning that the mission's been scrubbed, TheSquad decide that they needs to finish what they started even if it is against orders and dangerous.

* ABoyAndHisX: Linh and Bo Tat are A Boy and his Elephant.

''Operation Dumbo Drop'' is a 1995 Creator/{{Disney}} live-action film set during the Vietnam war. In it, Capt. T.C. Doyle (Creator/RayLiotta), a hard-nosed Green Beret, is assigned to a local village to keep watch on the Ho Chi Minh trail. There he meets up with with Capt. Sam Cahill (Creator/DannyGlover). While the two are out scouting the trail, the Vietcong raid the village, discovering a chocolate bar wrapper, meaning the villagers were harboring American troops. As punishment, they shoot their prized elephant.

* ASimplePlan: Nothing that these guys do ever goes according to plan despite how simple it sounds on paper.

* BlackGuyDiesFirst: H.A. is scared shitless he's gonna die, especially as he's a "short-timer" (see {{Retirony}} below) and so very close to making it out of the war alive. [[spoiler:He survives the whole movie.]]

* ItsRainingMen: Five soldiers, one kid, [[AndZoidberg and an elephant.]]

* {{Retirony}}: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with H.A. who's a [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/short-timer short-timer]] about to go home, and [[GenreSavvy certain he's going to bite the big one right before he does]], but ultimately averted. Cahill is also on his last tour.

* KickTheDog:
** Col. Nyugen forced his lieutenant to shoot the village's first elephant.
** The jerk pilot of the C-123 Provider, who wanted to shoot Bo Tat when she woke up and started moving around while they were in flight, [[JerkassHasAPoint though her weight moving around was throwing off the balance of the plane, nearly making them crash]].

* ToiletHumor: Exhibit A are the tranq pills that have to be shoved up Bo Tat's rear end.

* ParachuteInATree: After everyone else lands safely in the village, H.A. is stuck in a tree outside it. [[spoiler: This helps set up his BigDamnHeroes moment.

* AmericanPoliticalSystem: V.C.'s wondering why American troops are transporting an elephant:
--> "I've got it! The elephant is a symbol of the American Republican party!"
--> "So?"
--> "Nixon is a Republican!"
--> "Don't be stupid."

* ASimplePlan: Nothing that these guys do ever goes according to plan despite how simply is sounds on paper.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The objective is to get the elephant to the village. The logistics of actually doing is that is...tricky.

* OperationBlank

* [[ABoyAndHisX A Boy and his Elephant]]: Linh and Bo Tat.

* BadButt: Pretty much everybody. The setting of the Vietnam War combined with the fact that this was a Disney movie lead to a lot of fights in which the soldiers shoot their guns into the air to distract the Vietcong, then incapacitate them with judo throws.

* {{Blackmail}}: How Cahill gets Poole to come along. See below.

* ChekhovsGunman: Lt. Quang

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Deconstructed with Linh. At first, being an orphan seems like the simple reason he gets to go on all sorts of exciting adventures with the team. Then it's revealed he had to watch his father get shot in front of his eyes.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The objective is to get the elephant to the village. How they do that...

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Cahill.
** TheLancer: Doyle, even though he's technically leading the operation.
** TheSmartGuy: Poole, the wheeling-and-dealing Requisitions Officer.
** TheBigGuy: Oddly enough, H.A., who works in artillery and saves the group's collective butts twice.
** TheChick: Farley
** TheHeart: [[TagalongKid Linh]] and [[TeamPet Bo Tat]] are equally this.

* HonorBeforeReason: Upon learning that the mission's been scrubbed, TheSquad decide that they needs to finish what they started.

* ParachuteInATree: H.A. after everyone else lands safely. Helps set up his BigDamnHeroes moment.

* RuleOfFunny
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: The reason they wind up dropping the elephant out of a plane.

* [[KickTheDog Shoot the Elephant]]:
** Col. Nyugen who forced his lieutenant to shoot the village's first elephant.

* ToiletHumor: The movie kind of ran on it...
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Nothing that these guys do ever goes according to plan.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Twice, first after Doyle gets off of a hair-raising Helicopter ride, and then when Bo Tat gets seasick during the river chase.
** Actually, the second one is averted slightly. We see Bo Tat open her mouth, then a cutaway, then a massive wave of vomit, then another cutaway to Poole wincing, then we see the vomit hit the deck.

''Operation Dumbo Drop'' is a 1995 Creator/{{Disney}} live-action film set during the Vietnam war. In it, Capt. T.C. Doyle (Ray Liotta), a hard-nosed Green Beret, is assigned to a local village to keep watch on the Ho Chi Minh trail. There he meets up with with Capt. Sam Cahill (Creator/DannyGlover). While the two are out scouting the trail, the Vietcong raid the village, discovering a chocolate bar wrapper, meaning the villagers were harboring American troops. As punishment, they shoot their prized elephant.

** The jerk pilot of the C-123 Provider, who wanted to shoot Bo Tat when she woke up and started moving around while they were in flight, though her weight moving around was throwing off the balance of the plane, nearly making them crash.

* TheVietnamWar