Mac and Me

Mac and Me (1988)

114 mistakes - chronological order

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Audio problem: When Mac grabs the Coke at McDonald's, the kids say, "I don't believe it" and similar things, but their mouths don't move.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mac is on the windshield, one of the close shots shows that his hand is bent and up, yet on the immediate wide angle it's straight and along the glass.

Sacha

Audio problem: When Mac escapes the NASA lab, the helicopter pilot over him is informing about the surveillance, yet his mouth isn't moving.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Mac's on the windshield and the car is dodging traffic, the co-pilot kid appears and disappears.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the supermarket, a guard with the gun lifts his cap and places it up and loose, by the forehead, from the opposite angle it's still tucked in.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Chased by the baddies, Eric is seen next to a blue car, but in the immediate close-up that car is many meters away.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When escaping from the baddies down the road in his wheelchair, as seen from behind, Eric's hair colour changes to a much darker one, and he is thinner, revealing it's a stunt or dummy.

Sacha

Plot hole: Mac stretches his bare hand to grab the Coke, but that's impossible, because the bear suit has the hand sewn to the sleeve, so he should have broken the suit. In fact, after he grabs the Coke, the bear-glove suddenly appears on his hand, without no one having put it.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Mac is being chased by dogs, among them a black one. From a different angle the black dog is gone, only to appear couple seconds later coming out from a house.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Eric is looking for her mum by the escalators, there's just her mum and a man and no one around, but half a second later an old man appears behind, and a second after a woman also appears, then she disappears.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Eric holds Mac against him in McDonald's, before the clown comes, Mac is either resting on his shoulder or bent forward, depending on the angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The door of the gas tank from the white car bursts open when the van lands. A second later it is closed.

Sacha

Janet Cruise: It's ruined. It's totally ruined.
Eric Cruise: It wasn't me, mom! It was a little creature! I saw it.
Janet Cruise: The house is totally destroyed.
Eric Cruise: What do you want me to say?
Janet Cruise: I don't want you to say anything.

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Trivia: Comedian Paul Rudd had a running gag for many years where, whenever he'd appear on Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show, he'd set up a clip for a film he was promoting... and then instead show the infamous clip from "Mac and Me" in which Eric falls over a cliff in his wheelchair, and the alien Mac pops up in the foreground. The gag ended up going on for 17 years.

TedStixon

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