Cinderella

Continuity mistake: After Gus and Jack bring the key to Cinderella, Lucifer puts a bowl on top of the key. His paws swap from holding the upper part of the bowl to the middle part between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the sisters order Cinderella to iron their dresses, the amount of stuff on the floor is not consistent with the first shots and the stuff that the sisters later throw.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the mice open a small door and see Cinderella holding all the clothes and being scorned by the sisters, the little door keeps changing colours between shots: From solid pink to grey, to wood-grain texture.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Before the animals start to sew Cinderella's dress Jack says "Cinderella might not go to the ball", then a mouse sitting on the edge of a spool of thread with a needle showing behind her cries "What?" The shot changes and she's now sitting on the center of the spool and the needle is nowhere to be seen. This changes back and forth depending on the angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Cinderella places her mother's sewing book with the binding standing on the edge of the right side of the trunk. A shot later the book has moved 15 cm to the left.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Cinderella dances with her mother's dress check the basket on the floor: the spool of thread on the floor and the scissors inside the basket suddenly appear between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Cinderella picks up her dress from the trunk the mice standing on the lid change positions: From purple, yellow, blue and red, to light red, yellow and turquoise blue. Change of colour of the dresses might be due to lighting.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the birds throw the sponge into the basin, in the closeup shot the basin's edge has a simple style, as opposed to the ornamented one in the wide angles.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the stepsisters destroy Cinderella's dress and she runs away, all the rags on the floor disappear in the aerial angle. They're not offscreen: Check the pattern of the floor and the column behind. Also, the object on the table behind her disappears too.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Jack tells Cinderella that there's a new guest and she picks a yellow jacket, a blue piece of fabric and a pair of shoes. In the following shot the shoes disappear from her hand, and a shot later the jacket and the fabric also vanish.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After she wakes up, Cinderella walks behind the screen and a girl-mouse commands the others to get inside a plank. The girl-mouse stands in front of the gap between two planks. A shot later she's now behind the gap.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Cinderella wakes up to the clock's chime and pushes the duvet to the foot part of the bed. In the following shot the way it's folded changes, and a shot later it's now magically covering almost all of the bed.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Cinderella enters her stepmother's room after the mouse under the teacup incident, she closes the door behind her. Her shadow is thrown on the door behind her, yet in the next shot, when she nears the bed, her shadow is shown distinctly on it.

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Cinderella: Oh, well. What's a royal ball? After all, I suppose it would be frightfully dull, and-and-and boring, and-and completely... Completely wonderful.

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Trivia: The name of the Prince is never revealed, and he is never referred to as "Prince Charming" in the film.

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Answer: It's a term of endearment.

Brian Katcher

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