Best comedy movie continuity mistakes of 2004

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Alfie picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Alfie sees Julie in the cafe with Adam, he walks out to his scooter. They show him put on his scarf. Then for a second, it disappears, then reappears.

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Club Dread picture

Continuity mistake: As the girls run from the killer, the one girl is shirtless as she starts to run, holding her shirt in front of herself to cover her chest. The camera changes to a rear view and now she is running with the shirt in her hand swinging wildly. The camera changes again and suddenly she is running and putting her shirt on, already pulled over her head, a major change from the last shot. Finally, the camera angle changes again and she has her shirt on completely. All of her shirt/hand positions change instantly between shots.

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Mulan II picture

Continuity mistake: When Ling gets punched in the face by the girl that offers him tea, when they are singing a new version of "A Girl worth Fighting For" his black eye disappears.

Disney-Freak

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After the Sunset picture

Continuity mistake: During the basketball match, when the big guy is making a lot of noise, guards come up to him from the front and behind to take him out of the arena. The guy at the back puts his right arm over the big guy to his chest, but in the front view, that guard doesn't have his arm across his front anymore. (00:03:15)

The-Immortal

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The Perfect Score picture

Continuity mistake: In Desmond's car, Roy puts on his left sock first, then crosses his right foot over his lap. The shot switches behind him and he is putting his left knee up into the frame. The angle changes again and he puts the sock on his crossed right foot. (00:34:15)

Phoenix

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Ocean's Twelve picture

Continuity mistake: Before some of the group is arrested, Brad Pitt is sitting at a restaurant table and 4 cops approach him (2 from the front and 2 from behind). In one shot, the two cops in the front are seen about to sit down, but in the next shot, they are just arriving and aren't even close to the chair. (01:18:50)

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What the #$*! Do We Know!? picture

Continuity mistake: When the main character lady is having a drink with a guy at the wedding, she drops her little yellow umbrella on the floor. The guy gives her his pink umbrella. The shot switches and they both have umbrellas in their glasses, the guy has his pink one, and the girl has her yellow one.

Disney-Freak

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Little Black Book picture

Continuity mistake: After Stacy smashes the phone, she turns to her friend for a second. For that shot the phone is in one piece, then she turns around and it is smashed again.

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House Of D picture

Continuity mistake: When Tommy picks up his mother's cigarettes out of the toilet, one of them very obviously breaks in half. Yet a few shots later, they are all unbroken and normal.

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Criminal picture

Continuity mistake: When John C. Reilly and Diego Luna are walking in the street and the guy snatches the briefcase, the briefcase switches hands. Just before the snatch it is held in the left hand, but the guy steals it from the right hand. (00:53:10)

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Catch That Kid picture

Continuity mistake: When the 3 kids are about to go through the chute after the 2 security guards shock themselves Gus jumps down first, then Madeline gets in and Austin hands her the baby, Max, and she goes down then Austin goes down. However when they all land Gus comes out then Austin and Madeline comes last. Not only that but she loses Max inside, how she can let go of him if he was on her lap and he ends up behind her?

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Layer Cake picture

Continuity mistake: When XXXX is awakened by Dragan's phone call, there is a gun lying on his pillow. In the overhead shot the gun is pointing in one direction; in subsequent shots it is pointing the other way. (00:40:45)

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Welcome to Mooseport picture

Continuity mistake: When Bob and Handy are talking beside the Moose at the start of the film, they are talking about Handy's nose. Right after Handy says that when Bruce (The Moose) is there, his nose looks normal. As he says this, Bob looks down. Then as the camera changes angle to look at Bob for the reply, he is once again looking directly at Handy.

Scrappy

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Ella Enchanted picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Slannen is chaining Ella to the tree, a close up of the lock shows that it is positioned over her right hip, but when the camera pulls back, the lock is positioned over her left hip. (01:07:15)

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Shall We Dance picture

Continuity mistake: When the group goes to the diner after their first class, When Bobby takes off her hair piece clip and puts it back on, at first it's smooth then when the shot changes, it's all messed up.

Boobra

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D.E.B.S. picture

Continuity mistake: During a discussion between Lucy and Amy about a half hour into the movie the hair on Lucy's forehead alternates between two different positions several times.

Wayne C.

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A Dirty Shame picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Sylvia is searching for clothes to suit her "new" attitude, she pulls a pair of underpants off a clothes line and tries them on. We see that she is wearing white underpants, then when she later puts the skirt from the charity bin on, her underwear is black. At no time does she get black underpants from anywhere.

Timmy O'Toole

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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picture

Continuity mistake: In the fountain fight towards the end when the camera cuts back and forward, to and from Darcy, his shirt is buttoned differently each time.

hushkit

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It's All Gone Pete Tong picture

Continuity mistake: After the love scene with Penelopa, Frankie sits down on the chair wearing a green shirt. In the next shot he is wearing a blue bathrobe.

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