Audio problem: When the children are washing clothes, Auntie Shrew reacts by looking up towards the sound of the rat's moving equipment, a second before it is heard.
Paul M Leslie
4th Jun 2009
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
4th Jun 2009
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Other mistake: When the thresher blows for the second time, Mr. Ages slides down it into a large chamber into a basket. When he falls into it, he is translucent for a second.
4th Jun 2009
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Continuity mistake: In the first shot of the children and Auntie Shrew washing clothes, one of the bubbles in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen starts out blue, but then flashes red.
11th May 2009
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Continuity mistake: The Brisby home has a round window on the side of it. But when the rats are moving it near the end of the film, there is no window at all.
11th May 2009
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Nicodemus gives Mrs. Brisby the red amulet, she notices an inscription on the back of it and the camera zooms in to it. Before that, there was no inscription, and the back was blank.
9th May 2009
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Trivia: The main character, Mrs. Brisby, is called Mrs. Frisby in the book the based the film. The name Mrs. Brisby had to be used because the trademark for the toy "Frisbee" was taken.
6th Jan 2009
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
Continuity mistake: When Despereaux fights the cat in the rat arena, he hides behind a blue ball of yarn. When the cat hits the yarn, causing Despereaux and the yarn to fly in the air, in the next shot, the ball of yarn vanishes and never reappears again.
3rd Jan 2009
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
Continuity mistake: When Kris gives the children toys, one of them says, "What about the Meisterburger?" Kris than says, "What about him? I'll save him a big red yo-yo!" and pulls out a red yo-yo. However, when he hands it to the Meisterburger, it is not red, but is yellow and has blue and red stripes.
1st Jan 2009
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
Visible crew/equipment: Whenever the Meisterburger talks, you can see the mouthpiece moving on his face.
1st Jan 2009
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
Visible crew/equipment: When Kris is singing "Put one foot in front of the other", he opens a door through the snow and walks through it. If you look inside of it you can see a staple holding the two set pieces together.
31st Dec 2008
A Year Without Santa Claus (2006)
Audio problem: When the kid's dad and Santa are singing about believing in Santa their mouth movements do not match the music well.
27th Dec 2008
The Polar Express (2004)
Continuity mistake: During the scene when the Polar Express slides across the ice and the conductor is telling the train controllers to head for the tracks, the distance between the train and the tracks keeps changing.
27th Dec 2008
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Trivia: There really are, believe it or not, such things as magnetic rocks.
27th Dec 2008
Monster House (2006)
Factual error: The house slides down the hill and breaks apart when Chowder pulls it down. It completely breaks apart. The furnace would have been destroyed, but the house rebuilds itself later on.
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