Continuity mistake: The lettuce under which Sebastian later hides, wasn't on the table in the first place.
Sacha
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel is about to discover she has feet, a thin strand of hair falls in between her breasts. A frame later, a wider strand is now laying on the right boob. This swaps back and forth several times.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ursula and Eric are about to marry, everyone is facing the aisle. A frame later, from a different angle, they've turned 45ยบ and face the priest.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Louis dips Sebastian in the bowl, a pot appears on the right, and the jar on the left loses its lid.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel spies the guys on the boat, she is under an arched window. Depending on the angle, the space is made of 3 blocks of wood, or 2. This keeps changing randomly all the time.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the birds fly to attack Ursula and Eric, both them and the priest disappear in the aerial angle.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: On the pier, when Ariel watches Eric's ship sail away, the flowers around the column are two meters above her head. When the angle changes, they're now just a couple of centimeters above.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel sees a fork for the first time, it is sitting on some wooden planks. When the shot changes, the fork's position, plus the looks of the planks (which now resemble something like a broken chair) are completely different.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel's dad hugs her goodbye, from the angle in front she is above his shoulder and hair, but from the immediate opposite angle she is standing in a lower position, his hair covering her face.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel's father transforms her into human, the sand mound Eric is laying by disappears.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel goes to sleep in Eric's palace, the candle on the bed table disappears in the last shot.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Sebastian runs away from Grimsby's plate, the second fork on the right disappears, only to reappear in the next angle.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Sebastian falls in the boiling pot, the kitchen swaps from turned off to having huge flames rising.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: Louis flours Sebastian while holding the bowl sideways by the edge of the table. A frame later, his hand is away and the bowl is laying flat on the center of the table.
10th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: The bowl in which the chef dips Sebastian swaps from grey coloured to blue.
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.
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