Continuity mistake: When the SWAT team are inside the mansion, Logan jumps down to save Rogue Bobby and John, and he chucks two guys back some distance. In the overhead shot, the four SWAT guys are together on the floor, instead of two of them being some distance away like we saw in the previous shot. (00:38:25)
Continuity mistake: During the mansion invasion scene, Wolverine jumps from the balcony level. He drops onto one knee, and stabs two soldiers with his claws. He then stands up and throws them off. In the shot from behind once he's thrown them he's still part crouching, but in the very next shot from the front, he's fully upright. (00:40:10)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Wolverine is talking to Stryker in the mansion corridor, Bobby creates an ice wall between them, including the wall. Shortly afterwards when they leave and Bobby takes his hand away, the wall suddenly has no frost on it at all. (00:41:45)
Continuity mistake: When Grace (Mystique) walks up to the guard of the plastic prison and sits down opposite him, she puts down two beers on the table and puts her hands to her chest. In the following shot her left hand is still on the beer glass. (00:44:20)
Continuity mistake: The mutant assistant that Stryker is controlling has the same healing abilities as Wolverine, but somehow she doesn't heal when the mind control substance is put on her neck. Even if she would still be affected by the mind control stuff, the wound she got from it should have healed. (00:46:50)
Continuity mistake: When Bobby gives Rogue the clothes, it's shown that she is not wearing a bra. But when she is draining John's power later, a bra strap is visible on her shoulder. (00:48:00 - 00:58:20)
Continuity mistake: When Wolverine, Rogue, Bobby and John are in Bobby's house and are talking to his parents, his dad says to Wolverine "What are you a professor of?" Just after this the camera cuts to an overhead shot, there is a solid orange pillow at Bobby's brother's side, but in all following shots the solid orange pillow has vanished and is replaced by two striped pillows. (00:53:55)
Continuity mistake: When Mystique (as Dr. Jean Grey) tries making out with Wolverine, we see that the scars that Wolverine made in the first film are vertically across her stomach. But in X-Men, when Wolverine stabs Mystique with his claws, the marks (which later become scars) are horizontally across her stomach. (01:15:15)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where we see the X-Men and Magneto inside the jet at Alkali Lake, they are going over a map of the base, the camera cuts to Nightcrawler and Pyro, in this shot we see Pyro with his hands behind the head rest not visible, yet in the following shot his hands are now visible above his head, then the shot after back to being behind the head rest. (01:15:20)
Continuity mistake: When they show a shot of the captured children in the cell, all of the children are barefooted, but when they show the children running in the snow after escaping the dam, a few of them are wearing brown slippers. When did they get a chance to put those on? (01:21:50 - 01:50:55)
Continuity mistake: This is on the DVD. When Storm and Nightcrawler rescue the children Storm shouts "Jubilee" but the subtitles have her name as being "Julie". (01:27:50)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Stryker is walking through the tunnel in Alkali Lake, a drop of water drips onto his glasses thereby alerting him to the breaking of the dam. He examines the drop on his lens, but when he puts his glasses back on, the lens is dry. (01:29:05)
Continuity mistake: When Wolverine is fighting Deathstrike, Wolverine lands on a steel-like platform hanging over the water tank. When Deathstrike gets underneath and starts stabbing Wolverine, she is on his left side, yet when the camera cuts to a view from underwater looking up, she is on his right side. (01:31:00)
Continuity mistake: When Magneto is reversing Cerebro, he is floating and turning clockwise. Just as he passes the door there is a cut and suddenly he is back facing Professor X as he comes back down. (01:40:00)
Continuity mistake: When Wolverine locks up Stryker in the chopper, he just wraps the chain around Stryker's chest to start with. But when he completes the link and pats Stryker on the shoulder, Stryker's hands are suddenly behind his back. (01:43:10)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the President is about to address the nation, he is handed a glass of water, but in the following shots there is no glass to be seen. (01:58:30)
Continuity mistake: In the end, when the President is visited by the X-Men, he receives a blue binder, which is laid in front of him on the table. When they have left, you see a shot including the President's desk, and you can see that the only thing he has on the table are some sheets of paper, stapled in the upper left corner, opened up. Then the shot changes to a close-up of the President, and then back again, and you see the blue binder in front of him, closed, and the papers have disappeared. (02:01:40)
Continuity mistake: When Magneto kills the soldiers outside Cerebro 2 their bodies are left all over the place. But when Nightcrawler, Storm and the rest of the X-men come to the same place the bodies have disappeared.
Continuity mistake: When Jean and Storm first meet Nightcrawler and hold him upside-down in mid-air, his cloak hangs down ("up" by his viewpoint) in the shots facing him, but in the shots facing Jean and Storm his cloak is not hanging down (so we can see the two of them).
Continuity mistake: When Cyclops knocks Lady Deathstrike down with his beam at the plastic prison of Magneto and she gets back up, her eyes are blue with the contacts. However, when she flies through the air and pins Cyclops against the wall, her eyes are their natural color, brown.
Answer: The president is delivering a live address on television. The storm would make an excuse for the break in the signal.
Nick N.