Continuity mistake: When Stephen sees the video playing on a computer, the bar moving along suddenly jumps backwards between angles despite the video being played forward.
Sacha
4th Apr 2012
The Ides of March (2011)
4th Apr 2012
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Continuity mistake: When the judge orders the people to bring him the tape, the amount of papers and their position on the table keeps changing between shots.
4th Apr 2012
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Continuity mistake: During the trial, when the lawyer jumps on the table to grab the tape recorder, the mike and jar move around between shots.
4th Apr 2012
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Continuity mistake: In court, Sherman plays Maria's voice and protects the loudspeaker with both hands. When the lawyer jumps on top of him, a frame later, he's covering it with just one hand.
4th Apr 2012
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Continuity mistake: When stuck in the Bronx, Sherman speeds up and passes by a yellow car, but from a different angle, the cars around are white and red.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: After becoming human, Ariel swims and rest on a floating rock amidst the sea. A frame later she is laying on a rocky wall by the shore.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: During the eels scene, when Ariel is crying, the stone she lays on is a single stone laying almost flat on the sand; then swaps to a double stone, and when she sends the eels away it is a single stone though way steeper, standing upright.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ursula arrives at her mirror, most of the shells on the stands disappear in the second shot.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel is crying and Sebastian comes to comfort her, there's a vase, two planks and a small bottle behind her. When the angle changes, every object is different, even the area looks much wider.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: The first time we see Ursula, the oyster keeps changing shape in every single angle.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel and Flounder visit scuttle to show him the fork, the anchor swaps from laying flat on the sand, to standing-up laying a rock, and finally hanging loose resting against nothing.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel grabs the fork the prongs on the side are skewed. When scuttle grabs it, just the one on the right is, the rest look perfect.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: While Flounder is chased by the shark, moss suddenly appears on the anchor.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: While investigating the sunken ship, Ariel is about to see the fork, she swims upwards towards a hole where a broken log stands out on the left. When the angle changes, the hole is completely different and the log is gone.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: The first time Ariel sees a fork it has 4 prongs. When she grabs it it has 3. (00:07:25)
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel and Eric lay on the shore, Sebastian is sitting on a rock and his jaw falls, with Scuttle standing by his side. A frame later, Scuttle is standing meters away.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Other mistake: When Grimsby talks about the statue, the sailor behind Eric remains still, no animation at all.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Grisby shows the covered statue, the shape of the bulk underneath changes drastically between shots.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel and Eric exit the town on the chariot, she has her right arm down, but in the close-up it's up and holding a bouquet and some other stuff.
4th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: Eric sits on the side of the boat wishing to find his true love, between a ladder and a rope. From the opposite angle, where we see Ariel peeping, the rope is gone.
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