Moana
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Continuity mistake: When Maui and Moana are on their way to return the stone, the base of Maui's hook is entirely on the boat. From a different angle, part of it is hanging over the edge.

Jon Sandys

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Continuity mistake: During the attack on the boat, it's jerked upwards, a hatch is opened, stays open, and Hei Hei falls in. Seconds later, from a different angle, the hatch is now firmly sealed again.

Jon Sandys

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Continuity mistake: Maui steals a stone from TeFiti, turns into a bird, then lands on a raft with his hook in his hand. He looks at the stone, and when the shot changes back, his hook has disappeared.

Jon Sandys

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Continuity mistake: After the chief stops his mother telling scary stories, pictures drop behind the kids. The one to the left of the one of Maui has three creatures with spiky heads. After the chief is knocked over we see those pictures again, and the one of three creatures has been replaced by one of an island with a cloud above it.

Jon Sandys

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Continuity mistake: After Moana narrowly escapes drowning, she drags herself ashore next to some debris from a boat, one large piece especially, being by her right hand. After the pig runs away, she's not moved, but the debris around her has changed, and the large piece has disappeared.

Jon Sandys

Continuity mistake: When Moana arrives on Maui's island, the sail to her canoe is gone, but when Maui leaves it returns.

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Continuity mistake: After the sea retreats from Moana, a fish gets stranded by a shell and flaps its way back into the water, leaving a noticeable mark in the sand. As Moana approaches the shell in a different angle, the sand around it is undisturbed.

Jon Sandys

Continuity mistake: During the song "Shiny" the light from Tamatoa spins incorrectly at several points during the scene. At times the light reflecting off his treasure rotates with him. At others the light spins on its own while he is not moving.

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Continuity mistake: Moana ushers a turtle back to the ocean using a large green leaf. She then goes towards the ocean to get a shell, and in the reverse angle the leaf has disappeared.

Jon Sandys

Continuity mistake: When Moana goes back to Te Fiti after Maui left, she puts Hei Hei in a basket inside the boat, but when she gets almost hit by a boulder the heart bounces away and Hei Hei appears, and gives it back to her, then never shows up again until the end of the movie. Where did he come from?

Continuity mistake: On his raft, Maui gives Hei Hei some food. Seconds later in the shot from above as Moana falls towards the raft, the food has disappeared.

Jon Sandys

Continuity mistake: Tefiti gives Moana a new boat decorated with flowers, but when Moana arrives home after completing the journey, there are no flowers on her boat, it just looks like her old boat.

Aoi Yoshikawa

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Suggested correction: The journey is a long one as shown by Maui loading the boat with food. Easy to loose the flowers over the course of several days.

Ssiscool

More mistakes in Moana

Moana: Okay, first, I am not a princess. I'm the daughter of the chief.
Maui: Same difference.
Moana: No.
Maui: If you wear a dress, and have an animal sidekick, you're a princess.

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Question: Does Maui need to eat and drink to survive? If so, how did he survive for so long on a desert island; especially when there's no signs he had any tools for fishing or a way of creating fresh water? If not, why did he seek out food when Moana showed up? Also, it's heavily implied that Maui urinates, which probably means that he drank something, but why would he if he doesn't need food or water?

Plausible_Reptile

Chosen answer: There's a sign he had tools for sculpting a statue of himself from solid stone, though we never see the sculpting tools. Given the fact that he wants food and isn't dead, it's safe to assume he also had some tools available for fishing.

Phixius

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