Continuity mistake: When Eric's brother is leaning outside of the van to haul his brother, in the close-ups the baddies disappear from behind, only to appear in the next shots.
Sacha
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: During the vacuum scene, the hose keeps swapping from being over Eric's shoulder to under his armpit. This takes place in really short time lapses.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Revealing mistake: In McDonald's when Mac stretches his arm, notice that it's separated several inches from his body and much thicker, and is really a big sleeve coming form under Eric's armpit. In fact, you can see Mac's real arm next to his body, hanging down.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Revealing mistake: Supposedly Mac makes the unplugged TV work with his energy, and Eric looks at it in awe and inspects its loose cables. But if you look at the right side of the TV, you'll see there's another black cable coming out of it hidden among the cardboard boxes, which makes the whole trick work.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: During the windshield scene, a brown pickup truck smashes the back of a white car. Half a second later, the pickup is seen crashed against the front of the car, only to change to the initial position when the pile-up occurs.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Audio problem: In McDonalds, Eric tells his brother "Mac is here", to which he replies, "I don't believe this", but his mouth isn't moving.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Audio problem: When Mac grabs the Coke at McDonald's, the kids say, "I don't believe it" and similar things, but their mouths don't move.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Mac is on the windshield, one of the close shots shows that his hand is bent and up, yet on the immediate wide angle it's straight and along the glass.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Audio problem: When Mac escapes the NASA lab, the helicopter pilot over him is informing about the surveillance, yet his mouth isn't moving.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Mac's on the windshield and the car is dodging traffic, the co-pilot kid appears and disappears.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: During the dance scene Ronald McDonald appears in the close-ups, but is gone in the wide angles.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: At the supermarket, a guard with the gun lifts his cap and places it up and loose, by the forehead, from the opposite angle it's still tucked in.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Mac's on the windshield and the car starts to dodge cars, one shot from inside the car shows the alien has disappeared.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: Chased by the baddies, Eric is seen next to a blue car, but in the immediate close-up that car is many meters away.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When escaping from the baddies down the road in his wheelchair, as seen from behind, Eric's hair colour changes to a much darker one, and he is thinner, revealing it's a stunt or dummy.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: Mac is being chased by dogs, among them a black one. From a different angle the black dog is gone, only to appear couple seconds later coming out from a house.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: Mac is hit by the car and sent flying away, yet he appears on the car's windshield.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Eric is looking for her mum by the escalators, there's just her mum and a man and no one around, but half a second later an old man appears behind, and a second after a woman also appears, then she disappears.
29th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: During the dance at McDonalds tables and chairs suddenly disappear from the place and are replaced by dancers.
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