Without a Paddle

Without a Paddle (2004)

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Factual error: Right after the water fight on the first day of canoeing, you can see some kind of palm trees in the background. We also see some when the guys are climbing up the hill right before they find the girls in the tree. There are no palm trees in the wilds of Oregon. (00:23:00)

Sol Parker

Revealing mistake: After Billy's funeral when the guys are in their old tree house and they're opening up the box with their valuables in it they ask for the combination, but you can clearly see that the lock is not shut/latched, there is no reason to open it. (00:11:45)

Factual error: When the 3 guys have just safely gone through the rapids, they hear a roaring sound. This is leading to a waterfall. The water around them and the leaves in the water are perfectly still. A few seconds later they are going over the waterfall. A river just before a waterfall would have a strong current leading to the waterfall. this should have been the case with the river, but there was no current whatsoever prior to the waterfall.

luchador

Continuity mistake: The 3 guys have just gone through some heavy rapids. As the rapids slowed two of them are on top of the canoe. They call out for Tom and then again for Tommy. Between the two call outs the shot changes. In the first shot the river is still flowing swiftly. During the next shot when Tommy is called and found under the canoe, the river is at a stand still. This scene was filmed in 2 different parts of the river. (00:36:50)

luchador

Visible crew/equipment: When Billy drives away you can see the boom mike operator reflected in the side window of the car. (00:03:00)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When the guys are in the tree house right after Dan tells the girls about using the pussy willow reeds you can see Tom just about to take a drink from a canteen, then maybe a second later in the very next shot it shows Jerry taking the canteen from Dan and passing it on around the circle. (00:55:10)

Tiffany

Factual error: This is for the whole pot burning scene. When marijuana plants are burned while still being a alive, you can't get high. THC and all the cannabinoids don't become psychoactive until the plant has fully flowered and all moisture content has been removed. Even if the live plants could've caught fire and burned so easily, all the guys would have got from them would've been a headache.

Continuity mistake: When the three first arrive in the small town, Jerry walks past a garage as he is talking on the phone. From the outside you see two guys standing on either side of a truck. When they show them in a close up, they are standing together.

Continuity mistake: When Matthew Lillard is talking about not having responsibility and that surfing is what he loves while the guys are by the camp fire, his sweat jacket is unzipped in one shot as he lays back. The next shot it is zipped up completely. After he stands up the zipper is now unzipped halfway down his sweat jacket. (00:26:30)

luchador

Continuity mistake: Right before they encounter the hard rapids, just before they flip over, Dan's hat disappears and reappears between shots.

Continuity mistake: While up in the Fort Cooper tree house, after the three friends get their treasured possessions back, Dan reaches down to pick up a mix tape with the DJ intros on it. When he picks it up, C-3PO is still in his right hand, but from a different angle C-3PO is not in his hand with the mix tape. There is not enough time for him to put C-3PO down. Then after Jerry unfolds the map, Dan doesn't have the mix tape in his hands. (00:11:40)

leawe

Continuity mistake: During the time of the two natural girls attacking the hillbillies with the bags of poo, we see their clothes are covered in feces. Shortly after the chase scene that follows, we see their clothes are in fact perfectly clean once again.

KaptainKhaos

Deliberate mistake: When it starts raining so that "things couldn't be worse" according to Seth Green, the younger fat hillbilly pulls out an umbrella. Why would he have one when he is trying to hunt someone down and kill them? This was obviously put in for comedic purposes but doesn't play well in the movie. (01:05:40)

luchador

Continuity mistake: When the three friends are going through their DB Cooper treasure box, Jerry picks up Dan's C-3PO collectible. Just as he picks it up, a split second later from another angle, he is holding C-3PO differently and C-3PO is also at a different angle. (00:11:00)

leawe

Continuity mistake: When Tom arrives at Billy's funeral, he takes the goggles off and holds them in his left hand. But, when Tom is walking to where Jerry and Dan are his goggles are not in either hand. (00:09:55)

jermstew

Revealing mistake: When they are in the river you can see their shirts are life jackets, then back to normal shirts when they are safe.

Continuity mistake: In the treehouse he picks up the lock box, sets it on the floor and the lock is unlocked. Then they say that they don't have the code to open it and have to bust it with something. (01:27:00 - 01:34:00)

Continuity mistake: Tom's gunshot wound disappears in the cave scene when they cuddle together.

Continuity mistake: Dennis and Elwood get covered in poo, but when they are on the 4 wheeler it's completely gone. You can see this when they are standing by the cliff also.

Revealing mistake: After the guys head back on the road after first meeting the sheriff, the footage used of the vehicle driving down the road is the same footage used after the guys put the mix tape in the stereo; even though they weren't driving past the same spot a second time.

Bishop73

[Dan has tripped and fallen after running away from a bear. The bear towers above him.]
Tom: Stay calm. Get in the foetal position.
Dan: Oh God.
Tom: It won't bother you if your in the foetal position. [Dan crawls up into the foetal position.] Nothing's gonna happen now.
Dan: Is he gone? Is he gone?
Tom: Abort the foetal position! It's not working!

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Question: At the start of the film, when Tom is with that girl, whats so important about Toni showing up? Is she the girls room mate or something?

Answer: Toni is the other girl's girlfriend.

MoonFaery

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