Best movie continuity mistakes of 2011

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Footloose picture

Continuity mistake: When Ren is dancing at the drive in, he starts dancing with a girl then stops to watch her. When he starts dancing again he moves slightly in front of her in the shot. Then in the next shot they are side by side.

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Colombiana picture

Continuity mistake: The women dealing with the table of drugs are dressed in their underwear. One woman in her underwear brings two glasses and alcohol to her boss. She leaves in a dress.

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The Muppets picture

Continuity mistake: During the opening song, as Gary is dancing with the crowd, right before the chorus of the song kicks in, Gary spins around, with his hand to his nose like he's about to sneeze. During the first shot from the front, he puts his hand up to his nose, and begins to turn in a clockwise direction. He turns about 15° as the camera cuts to the next shot, and he has suddenly turned a complete 180° instantly between shots, and is facing the opposite direction.

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Continuity mistake: The giant maker compound was purple when Franqcuer was created, but it turned orange when Lucille made another giant flea.

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Continuity mistake: At the airport Tim gets a red Chevy Cobalt for a rental car. It's a base model with no rear spoiler. Later he is seen driving a red Cobalt with a rear spoiler.

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Continuity mistake: When Valerie's father was the werewolf, his right paw was burnt. Then, when we see the hand later, there isn't a scratch on it, but again later, we see that it is, once again, looking burnt.

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War Horse picture

Continuity mistake: The 'over-the-top' trench scene in War Horse depicts a single soldier ordered to remain behind and shoot those who have retreated. In one shot he is seen standing guard while, a few feet away, a dead soldier lies in the trench being eaten by CGI rats. Cut away and the same shot of him again, the casualty and the rats are gone.

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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance picture

Continuity mistake: When Nadya escapes with her son from the monastery she drives the car through the doors, and the driver's side of the car sustains substantial damage at the side of the hood with the side-view mirror completely broken off, but during the chase there's little damage to the car's body and the driver's side-view mirror is now dangling at the side.

Super Grover

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Continuity mistake: When Justin gets a text from Mike's cell phone, it shows a close up of the screen. In the "to" box, it says Nikki although it's Mike's phone.

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All Superheroes Must Die picture

Continuity mistake: Cutthroat awakes and finds a guy tied up in a chair. After talking for a moment, a sound and light show up behind Cutthroat and he turns around. The side of his face is lit up when he does. It cuts to a different angle and now his face is not lit up. (00:03:30)

Quantom X

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Continuity mistake: When Po and the Furious Five are in the top floor in Shen's palace, the lights above them are brightly lit. After Mantis smashes the cannon through the floor, the lights turn off.

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The Eagle picture

Continuity mistake: When Marcus Aquila and Esca set off for the North they are riding horses, Marcus on a dark brown horse, with a short mane and Esca on a bay (you see close ups of them on the horses, and several screen shots of them galloping on them). However, after their first overnight stay in the North, Marcus' Horse is black with a long mane, Esca's bay horse is suddenly a white horse with no explanation for this. His horse remains white for the rest of the movie.

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Continuity mistake: A bear escapes from the zoo and Benjamin finds him in the woods. The bear knocks the gun from Benjamin's hands, then faces him and growls. In the close-up, Benjamin's hair is blowing, presumably from the force of the growl, but in the preceding and following long shots, his hair is motionless.

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Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the movie when Rachel enters that bar and is welcomed with the surprise party, Darcy comes and puts a colorful necklace around Rachel's neck. In the next shot, Rachel doesn't have the necklace anymore and Darcy is putting it once again around Rachel's neck.

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Arthur Christmas picture

Continuity mistake: Arthur's older brother gets "bombed" by a seagull. In the very next scene, there is nothing on his jacket, but the offending "message" appears again a little later on.

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