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Operation Dumbo Drop Review - Chicago Sun Times
July 28 1995
I have here a letter from Halima Khan of Bartlett, Ill., a 10-year-old who found "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" to be "surprisingly good," and suggests, in a well-written argument, "you should have a kid film critic to review kids' films." It is hard for me to disagree, because the first paper I worked for had a kid film critic. It was the "St. Mary's Grade School Newsletter" - and, reader, that critic was me.
Now I am faced with reviewing another movie that I suspect Halima might enjoy more than I did. "Operation Dumbo Drop," a rare PG-rated film about the war in Vietnam, follows the adventures of some Green Berets who travel by land, air and water in order to provide a village with an elephant for its traditional ceremony. The movie is "based on a true story," and I have no doubt that while winning the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people we may have supplied some elephants. But the story is so sentimentalized, so sanitized into a family comedy, that I do doubt the reality was anything like this.
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