Best comedy movie continuity mistakes of 2003

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Good Boy! picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where all of the dogs are talking in the Garage Nelly goes under a tarp of some sort.In one shot she is going under the tarp the next she is out of the tarp.And then she is back under the tarp.

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Bad Santa picture

Continuity mistake: When Willie is in bed and the kid comes in with the Christmas countdown candy box he gets in bed with Willie. Willie's robe keeps changing from being open to being closed.

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Big Fish picture

Continuity mistake: When Edward is walking through the forest and the trees grab him the key he is wearing falls off his neck, but in the next couple shots you can still see it hanging on his neck.

Nick N.

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Continuity mistake: When B-Rad first meets Shondra, she gets her coffee and turns to walk to the condiments and you see a woman in the background walking towards the bathroom with a tray. The camera angle changes and the woman is gone. (00:20:56)

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Secondhand Lions picture

Continuity mistake: When Hub and Walter are talking by the lake, Hub's, and later Walter's, blanket repositions itself each time the camera cuts back. (01:08:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Peter starts grabbing himself, his shirt is seen semi-tucked into his pants. The camera angle changes and the left side of his shirt is now hanging outside of his pants. (00:55:34)

MCKD

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Continuity mistake: When Alex throws the useless GDR money from the rooftop Lara is sitting on the rim, wearing a red t-shirt. When Alex walks over to her and she gets up she's wearing the light-blue jacket she was sitting on. (01:07:35)

NancyFelix

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Continuity mistake: When Lila's staff are gossiping about the "new sweetheart of America" Christian raises a glass and toasts, "Hear hear!" There is only one glass, but in the next shot Lila is holding it. Also, in the following shot, Christian is holding his hands together and no wine in sight. (00:13:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Elle wakes up in her hotel, she looks out the window. Just a moment before, there was a speed-time shot of the sun rising; however, when she's looking out the window and talking in standard time, the sun's reflection is still moving awful fast.

redbaron2000

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Continuity mistake: When Natalie tells Bernie about her son, the lock of hair hanging down in front of her right eye disappears and reappears randomly throughout the scene. It's present in only about half of the frontal shots, and no shots from any other angle. (00:37:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Ellen is getting up from the table after arguing with Jill, she takes her purse off the table with her right hand. In the next shot, she's shown dragging her purse across the table with her left hand.

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Head of State picture

Continuity mistake: In the part of the film where Mays Gilliam is promoting himself during the wrestling event, in the background you can see posters of him and his brother back to back. How can this be? He hasn't chosen his brother as vice-president yet. (00:41:10)

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Continuity mistake: When the monk is first teaching Kar to fight, the monk has Kar in a hold where Kar's arm is on the monk's shoulder, in the back and forth shots, Kar is holding the monk's shoulder and has his hand stretched out over the monk's shoulder. (00:53:00)

Sol Parker

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American Splendor picture

Continuity mistake: When Robert Crumb is looking at Harvey Pekar's drawings for comic-book ideas while the two eat in a restaurant, the level of the drink in Harvey's glass switches between full and two-thirds full several times.

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Continuity mistake: When Daniel and Emilien find the Santa Claus gang's hideout, Emilien opens the door and falls out into the snow. From the outside shot you can see the taxi has got wheels when they were changed into tracks earlier.

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Continuity mistake: When the Fighting Temptations are performing at the Gospel choir contest at the end, the convict with the high voice is dancing with only one handcuff attached (you can see him try to hide the other end, which is flapping around). In a subsequent shot, he has both handcuffs attached again.

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Continuity mistake: When Alex and Emma are at lunch at a restaurant talking, Emma holds her fork up. The fork has a little orange carrot on it. It cuts to Alex, then when it shoots back to Emma, instead of a piece of carrot, it is something lumpy and yellow. It does this repeatedly.

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Continuity mistake: In the final sword fight between Rathbone and Jackie, you can see Rathbone's swords flex along the edge more like rubber than a steel sword.

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