Best comedy movie continuity mistakes of 2008

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Continuity mistake: When John, Jenny and Marley are walking on the beach and John asks what's next, they are by some washed up debris. Camera cuts and they are no longer near it. (00:31:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Alex Stillman visits Tommy Vinson in his house for the first time, he has a look at some of Tommy's pictures, while Tommy gets two beers. He asks him about the two framed playing cards (jack diamonds and 8 diamonds) underneath which a golden badge is in the frame. The next shot is a closeup of the frame, and the golden badge is gone. There is just black velvet on the place the badge has been.

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Continuity mistake: The range rovers used to transport everyone to the wedding, or in Tom's case to wherever he was going to catch his plane, share an identical license plate number. Two different places but same id?

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Continuity mistake: When Jim Carrey is driving off to go jogging after an "all-nighter," he's saying goodbye to his friends in the car. The male nurse turns to see Jim. In the next shot, he turns to see him again.

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Continuity mistake: When Alex was a baby and was put on the Zoo rock, for a few seconds his head has leopard spots on it. (00:04:55)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ronnie steals the Jeep, he makes a large oval out of the parking lot and back in. The outside shot is of him going counter clockwise (turning left), although a shot of the steering wheel shows a large right turn. Note that although this could be explained as turning the wheel to straiten out the car, it happens at the wrong time and the steering wheel's in the wrong starting position. (00:27:00)

zephalis

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Continuity mistake: When the Silent Monk and the Jade Warlord are fighting, the warlord wounds the monk in the right shoulder, next shot the bleeding wound is gone, but it reappears once again in the next shot after that.

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Continuity mistake: When Wade is at dinner with his family, when his stepdad is talking to him, Wade places his milk down on the table. Then in the next shot it is back in his hand, and then back down again.

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Continuity mistake: When Leonidas says, "The oracle also said our painted-on abs look fake," the fat guy is having abs painted on him, but when the Spartans are skipping, his abs are gone.

logan crews

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Continuity mistake: After the divorce has been made final and Tess and Ben are outside, you can see that Ben's shirt has gotten considerably dryer than in the previous shot without a reasonable amount of time for it to have done so.

Disney-Freak

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Continuity mistake: When Michael and Brenda are in the hallway of the apartment, Harry first asks them about Michael playing pro ball, Michael's hands goes from having the ball in them, to under her arm, to back in his hands in three consecutive frames.

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Continuity mistake: When the barman pulls Ken a fresh pint, the pint is placed on the bar and the glass is not entirely full. The camera changes angle and the glass is now full.

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Continuity mistake: After Dodge "intercepts" the ball at the end, they throw water on him to reveal his blue uniform. As he is running off the field his uniform is again covered in mud, but when he reaches the sideline it is blue again.

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Continuity mistake: When Speedman is by himself in the rain, he puts down the iPod and picks up the Chapstick with the white cap on. The next shot, the cap is off. (00:49:00)

Michael Piscitelli

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Continuity mistake: During the opening credits, Zohan walks surrounded by girls. On the far left of the screen is a girl with a green bikini and large sunglasses. When the angle changes she's suddenly moved to the far right end of the screen.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the film, when Pitka is using the voice-over machine, it is a black machine. In the bar scene however, the machine is a pale-ish orange color. The orange-ish machine is also used in the ending scene before the song.

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Continuity mistake: When Ryan Reynolds is in the motel room with his friend, the length of the cigarette keeps changing, longer, shorter then longer. (00:47:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Summer is singing in the park, her hair changes from in front of her shoulder to behind her shoulder in between shots.

Ian Hunt

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