Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)

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Had a look around and didn't see anyone else suggesting it, so I had to throw it up. This is the very first movie I remember seeing as a kid and just hating. Please rip it apart!

[NitsujRelis 8]

My Dad used to be a Manager for Walmart and some days after school we would be taken up to the store. There was a training room in the back where they would watch training videos, but on these days we’d get to go back there and watch a movie.  This was the only film back there. Ive watched it at least 20 times.  I remember nothing about it other than they shove a tranquilizer up the elephants butt.

[ElCap 1]

38 minutes ago, NitsujRelis said:

My Dad used to be a Manager for Walmart and some days after school we would be taken up to the store. There was a training room in the back where they would watch training videos, but on these days we’d get to go back there and watch a movie.  This was the only film back there. Ive watched it at least 20 times.  I remember nothing about it other than they shove a tranquilizer up the elephants butt.

Yikes. You have my sympathies. 

 

And, I don't if this makes it better or worse, but apparently it's based on a true story as well. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/jul/31/elephant-airlift-the-story-behind-dumbo-drop-is/

[Ofcoursemyhorse 1043]

Didnt this come out like really close to the Bill Murray elephant movie as well?

[SlidePocket 707]

2 hours ago, Ofcoursemyhorse said:

Didnt this come out like really close to the Bill Murray elephant movie as well?

This did came out a year before Larger Than Life.

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3 hours ago, Ofcoursemyhorse said:

Didnt this come out like really close to the Bill Murray elephant movie as well?

I had to google "Bill Murray elephant movie" because I had no idea. Looks like Larger than Life is going in the queue. 

[Ofcoursemyhorse 1043]

Apparently Tai the Elephant had a multi picture deal, because oddly enough its the same elephant in both movies. 

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On 10/13/2018 at 4:03 PM, Ofcoursemyhorse said:

Apparently Tai the Elephant had a multi picture deal, because oddly enough its the same elephant in both movies. 

That elephant had a great agent. 

[Ofcoursemyhorse 1043]

She really did, in a span of four years she was in the original live action Jungle King, Dumbo Drop, Larger Than Life, and George of the Jungle. Which is a pretty solid run. 

[MarcNado 28]

This film it just bad, I remember seeing it as a kid and thinking what is this. Then never seeing it again until a couple of years ago when I spotted it and thought I would give it a re-watch as it couldnt be as bad as I remembered... nope it is actually even worse

[CaptainAmazing 127]

On 10/12/2018 at 4:26 PM, NitsujRelis said:

My Dad used to be a Manager for Walmart and some days after school we would be taken up to the store. There was a training room in the back where they would watch training videos, but on these days we’d get to go back there and watch a movie.  This was the only film back there. Ive watched it at least 20 times.  I remember nothing about it other than they shove a tranquilizer up the elephants butt.

I was about to say that I didn’t remember seeing this movie, but now I remember that. Weirdly, I also remember a hell of a lot of details about that scene, but nothing else about the rest of the movie.