Batman Returns

Continuity mistake: During the scene in Schrek's department store, Catwoman has a tail clipped onto her beltline which keeps disappearing. It is visible when she jumps from the trampoline, and smashes open the door to the gas, but is missing in all the other shots. (00:54:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Catwoman smashes a glass display case in Schrek's department store, the position of the items on and around the case change between shots. (00:54:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: Catwoman turns the microwave dial to the right, pointing in a 3 o'clock position. A shot later it points in a 12 O'Clock position. (00:56:04)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Selina blows up Schrek's store, her and Batman begin to fight on the rooftops opposite. When Batman is pushed over the ledge, hanging from Catwoman's whip, the Schrek store is visible behind Batman, fully intact. (00:56:25 - 00:57:55)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Batman fights Catwoman, he hits her to the floor, and the thick handled end of her whip dangles down and touches the ground. In the next shot it is wrapped and tucked in a circle around her chest. (00:57:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Oswald goes upstairs and finds Catwoman on his bed, he goes over and hangs his hat over the end of an umbrella in the rack. When he picks up an umbrella as he talks with Catwoman, the hat is now in a different position. (01:01:30 - 01:02:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the Penguin picks up the ointment bottles, he throws them up and they land on the bed and pillows. These bottles and Catwoman's whip, which lays on the center of the bed, keep changing position. (01:02:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Batman spots the Ice Princess tied up, he shoots his glider and the tip lands in a rough stone wall, but in the next shot as he glides down along the wire, the tip is embedded in a rusty metal wall. (01:13:10)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: As the Ice Princess falls down from the skyscraper, it is clear she will not land on the lighting button, but she does. Between shots the lighting button moves closer to the edge of the stage too. (01:15:10)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Batman is on the roof, his cape becomes a glider, the glider is separate from his cape as his cape falls off behind him. When he floats down the glider cape once again resembles his regular cape. (01:16:45)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the Penguin is controlling Batman's batmobile, when the batmobile hits a police car, the car flies into a '24 Hours' shop. Between shots the amount of hubcaps and tires hanging on the brick wall around the doorway of the '24 Hours' changes. (01:20:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the Batmobile diagnostics detects a foreign object, it shows it being located approximately to the front-left of the windshield. It is also a 2D plan view. Yet Batman automatically knows it is BELOW the car and punches through the floor directly beneath him, which is nowhere near where the Batmobile detects it. (01:21:35)

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Continuity mistake: Just before Batman takes his mask off at the end, the black makeup around his eyes vanishes while the mask is still on. (01:48:20)

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Question: After she falls, what exactly makes Selyna Kyle go nuts? And what is she trying to do to her apartment?

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Answer: The film keeps it ambiguous. There are two ways to look at it. Scenario A- She literally died and is brought back to life by the alley-cats somehow, adapting some of their traits. Or... Scenario B- The trauma of falling and sustaining a head-injury, along with her paranoia after Schreck tried to kill her, has driven her mad, and she uses her connection with cats to build a new persona. (Which is supported by the fact that all the things she claims "kills" her with each of her "nine lives" wouldn't actually have killed her. Ex. Her one fall is broken by the kitty-litter truck. Max doesn't hit her in any vital organs when he shoots her. Etc.) Her destroying her apartment is her lashing out at all the things she used to hold dear- her vision of a normal life, etc. It's symbolic of her purging the past and embracing the future. (Plus, oftentimes when people throw fits, they'll smash stuff up).

Chosen answer: She just died, and came back to life. The shock drove her mad. She really isn't doing anything but destroying it.

MasterOfAll

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