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Disney offers this cardboard paste-up of a Vietnam War film which plays like "The Absent-Minded Professor Goes to War." And though it's based on a true story, a screenplay stuck in neutral and eye-rolling shenanigans keep this from attaining much comic mileage. The story centers on a group of Green Berets stationed in Vietnam who are assigned to transport an elephant from the jungle to a friendly village, which needs the animal for a traditional ceremony. Of course, things go awry, tempers flair, and eventually they succeed. Yes, the sight of an elephant being parachuted from an airplane is a rather funny sight. But the film relies too heavily on obvious elephant jokes, and rarely gives its human actors anything equally amusing to say or do.