Continuity mistake: When Eric's dog comes running on the beach and scares Ariel, Flounder, Scuttle, and Sebastian, all the stuff around them (logs, barrels, iron parts) disappears.
Sacha
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Scuttle examines the fork, Ariel's bag suddenly disappears, only to reappear when he blows the pipe.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Flounder gets trapped in the porthole, from the angle outside there are two wooden beams 20 cm away from each side. From inside the ship, the distance has increased to a meter.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the film starts, Ariel sets eyes on a sunken ship with a basement access on the deck, and a broken and skewed door on it. When she swims towards the boat, basement and door are gone.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: The mast onto which Ariel rests when the film starts, shrinks to a third of its size in the close-ups, plus a rope suddenly appears in front of it.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When we first meet Ariel, she is grabbing a mast and resting on the far right side of it. When the angle changes she's on the far left.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When we first meet Max, his front paws swap from white in the front angle, to grey in the angle shot from behind.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: During the Sebastian and Louis scene in the kitchen, all the stuff on the tables around keeps changing (appearing, disappearing, reappearing) between shots, with no logic whatsoever.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: In the chef's kitchen, there's a big recipe book. Its page marker changes styles when Louis is about to chop the fish.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: A brown pear appears in the fruit bowl on the dinner table.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: During dinner, the fork that Ariel is about to grab swaps from having a round bottom part, to crafted petals.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel sits at the dinner table, a glass in front appears/disappears between shots.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: During dinner, when Ariel is about to grab the fork and use it as a comb, the napkin underneath disappears.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel is taking a bath, look behind her - the leaves disappear and the stone fish changes appearance between shots, and the faucet disappears in the second angle.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel makes her dress with a sail and ropes, it looks really poor, with the ropes surrounding her body. When she climbs on the rock, the dress looks perfect, and the ropes are neatly aligned on the top part and waist.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: Plants suddenly appear on the rock where Ariel climbs while flirting with Eric.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: Eric walks on the beach with his dog, who sniffles something. Right then, the barren place swaps to having plants everywhere.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel becomes human she climbs on a rock at the beach. The appearance of the rock changes completely between shots.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: In the pond, when Eric and Ariel are about to kiss, the floating plants disappear in the wide angles, but reappear in the close-ups.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: The chef throws flour on the dip where Sebastian is, turning it from brown to half brown-half white. A frame later, the whole mix is white.
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