Continuity mistake: After Porter returns to find Sandy's Flipper show, when Porter calls Flipper an over-sized guppy, the dolphin splashes him, and the amount of water on Porter's shirt decreases considerably between shots.
Super Grover
22nd Jun 2012
Flipper (1996)
22nd Jun 2012
Flipper (1996)
Continuity mistake: After Sandy is pushed off the pier into the water by Flipper, Sandy's watch is gone in a couple of shots.
21st Jun 2012
Flipper (1996)
Deliberate mistake: After Flipper knocks Sandy off the pier with his tail, there is an underwater close-up of the two of them swimming towards each other. This shot is flipped, note Sandy's watch and bracelets have switched wrists. (00:34:20)
18th Jun 2012
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
Continuity mistake: After Inspector Todd is shot, Axel chases after De Wald and fires at the truck. When the guy at the back of the truck is shooting at Axel, we see multiple bullet holes near the truck's back right window, but in his close-ups the bullet holes are gone. The window frame's scratched paint differs as well in the close-ups. We know it's the same window because we also see him in the shot of the truck's interior.
13th Jun 2012
St. Trinian's (2007)
Continuity mistake: Before the heist, when Kelly is pulling herself across the cable, the locking carabiner hanging from the line pulley flips over and turns itself upside down between shots, which is impossible to do with Kelly's weight hanging from it.
6th Dec 2011
St. Trinian's (2007)
Continuity mistake: After Kelly has shown Annabelle to her bed, in the close-up the girl writing on the blackboard crosses out the zero and writes a five under it. Yet that writing is gone just before the paint spills on Annabelle. (00:09:15)
30th Nov 2011
St. Trinian's (2007)
Continuity mistake: When the girls are taking bets on how long Annabelle will last, the one writing on the blackboard is wearing a top with a small dark design and she is holding a pen in her right hand together with the chalk. However, in the close-up the pen has vanished and the sleeve is entirely different - the dark design is gone and instead there is a light pink design. (00:09:10)
30th Nov 2011
St. Trinian's (2007)
Continuity mistake: When Kelly shows Annabelle to her bed, the girls are taking bets on how long Annabelle will last, and the writing on the blackboard completely changes in the close-up. (00:09:10)
24th Nov 2011
Speed (1994)
Continuity mistake: When Jack shoots Harry, the door (to the garage) behind Payne has a deadbolt lock right above the door's finger plate, but just before the door blows up that deadbolt lock has vanished. (00:22:35)
4th Aug 2011
Emergency! (1972)
Loose Ends - S6-E12
Visible crew/equipment: When the guys bring Brackett to the hospital after his car accident, two white tape, and one black tape actors' T-marks are all visible on the floor in the ER.
4th Aug 2011
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When the Animal Control guy and the officer are in the grocery store, a few shots after the tiger jumps over the counter, the hand of a crew member (presumably the tiger's trainer) is visible behind the boxes holding a piece of food, as the tiger walks toward it (away from the camera).
24th Apr 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Mundungus is confronted about the locket, as he says, "Could I help it if Mad-Eye fell off his broom," Ron places his hand on the chair with his hand facing away from Mundungus. Depending on the angle of the following shots, Ron's hand is either facing Mundungus or facing the opposite way.
24th Apr 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Harry, Hermione and Ron confront Mundungus about the locket, he sits down in the corner chair and the side table is beside the chair, with the mess of Daily Prophets on the floor in front of the table. However, in the following shots the table is 3-4 feet away from the chair, against the wall, with one Daily Prophet between it and the chair.
24th Apr 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Mundungus arrives at the house with Kreacher and Dobby all over him, the pot, glassware, wire basket, bottle, etc. on the counter beside the sink disappear, reappear and/or change entirely in the close-up and following shots.
24th Apr 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Harry, Hermione, and Ron confront Mundungus about the missing locket, Mundungus knocks over a tall stack of Daily Prophets on the floor. However, when Mundungus puts the Daily Prophet (with Umbridge on the front page) on the table, the stack is back upright behind Hermione.
24th Apr 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Continuity mistake: In the diner, when both Hermione and Ron aim their wands at Dolohov, the boxes of Amaretti cookies explode off the shelf behind him. However, in the following shot one Amaretti box (facing the wall) is still on the shelf, then vanishes and reappears once again.
24th Apr 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Continuity mistake: As the Death Eaters disrupt Bill and Fleur's wedding, Ron holds Hermione's right hand and Harry holds her left hand as she disapparates with them in tow. However, when they apparate onto Shaftesbury Avenue, Ron and Harry's positions have switched, now Harry holds Hermione's right hand and Ron holds her left hand. (00:36:05)
1st Apr 2011
Shutter Island (2010)
Continuity mistake: During Teddy and Chuck's interview with Peter Breene, when Teddy scribbles with the pencil in his notebook (which annoys Breene), the force of the rather large slanted scribblings tear the paper. After Teddy says, "Do you know what she was afraid of," in the close-up that tear is gone, the scribbling has changed shape and we can see that some pages have been torn out of the notebook (likely from prior takes). Then in a following shot the scribbling is smaller.
30th Mar 2011
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: After the Doctor brings Amy onto the TARDIS, the material of the tweed jacket he's wearing is entirely different in the close-ups of the Doctor's hands, as he's fiddling with the gears on the panel. (00:59:45)
23rd Jan 2011
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: When the Trans Am drives out of the roller coaster frame (before it collapses), in Bandit and Frog's next close-up camera equipment (used for the close-up) is visible on the car's roof, though in the previous shot nothing is atop the car.
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