Continuity mistake: When Blackbeard shows up and hangs Jack upside down, Jack falls on the floor with his hair messed up. As of then, his hairstyle changes between shots despite him not moving.
Sacha
16th Nov 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
16th Nov 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When the castaway is brought to the Spanish king, he raises his hand, but in the very next shot it's lowered.
16th Nov 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: By the big tree, when Philip is talking with the mermaid, a bang of hair by her right temple appears/disappears between shots.
16th Nov 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: After Blackbeard shows up for the first time, Angélica is shouting at him. The bangs around her face change between frames.
9th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: During the fight for the chalices, wounded Philip walks towards the mermaid, who is tied around a tree. Her right arm is straight, yet a frame later it's bent.
8th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Blackbeard falls semi-dead, his left arm lays by his side, yet a mere frame later it's extended.
7th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: After escaping from the guards, Angélica and Jack swim away in a cave. She grabs a knife and moves it close to her breast, but in the close-up, a frame later, she repeats the same movement.
7th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: While in the cave with Jack, Angélica's grip on the knife differs between the front and back shots, with the handle more visible in the back shots.
7th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Other mistake: In the cave, Angélica steps out of the water and in the close-up of her face her hair is dry, and even drier in the following close-up.
7th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: The Spaniard extends his arms and throws the chalices away, yet in the close-up they're lying by his tiptoes.
7th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Philip asks the mermaid to give him back his life, the position of her hands keeps changing between shots.
7th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: In the cave, Angélica steps out of the water, knife in her hand, and her fringe changes style all the time, most noticeably when she asks "Why?".
7th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: Philip insists the mermaid on getting his life back, strokes the hair around her ear, but a frame later his hand is by her temple.
7th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: While fighting against Blackbeard in the fountain of youth, Barbossa falls down and bends completely forward to help himself up. When the angle changes he is in a different position, about to stand up.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: The bible that Philip uses to block the lid in the water tank to let the air in moves slightly out and to the right between the first and second shot.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: While handcuffed to a chair, Jack tries to grab a cream puff. The napkin on the left alternates between being closer and further away from the dish between shots, and also swaps between being wrinkled to flat.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: After Philip opens the water tank, the mermaid raises her head reaching for air, and takes her right arm towards the edge of the tank. A frame later the arm is down, under the water.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: Jack is on top of a carriage which makes a right turn and encounters a second carriage, which drives parallel to it. For a brief second, there's an aerial shot of Jack with the guards chasing him and the second carriage disappears, only to reappear a frame later.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Angelica is about to tell Jack that she loves him, his position alternates back and forth between being perpendicular to her a meter away, to face to face at half a meter distance.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Angelica is about to take a leap into the cliff, Philip tries to stop her. When the angle changes, he is standing still and running towards her again.
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