Continuity mistake: After Philip blocks the tank's lid with a bible, the mermaid's head position keeps changing in every single shot.
Sacha
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: During the trial, Jack's hand swaps back and forth between raised in the front shots, to lowered in the back shots.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Jack has each foot on a different carriage, the left side driver's whip extends to the right carriage, yet disappears a frame later.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When the mermaid is resting on the pirates' boat about to sing a song, the amount of hair on her arm swaps from a couple bangs, to a lot, and is either on the shoulder, further down or next to the elbow, between shots.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Angelica and Jack are drinking and talking about the past, the hair bang on her forehead swaps between loose and tucked under the bandana.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When the mermaid approaches the pirates' boat after being threatened with a knife, her arm is uncovered in the shot from behind, but covered in hair in the front shot.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Jack is rowing the boat towards the island, Angelica's hair falls over her back, with a mere strand falling over her left shoulder. When the angle changes, all of her hair is now over her left shoulder.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When the movie ends, Barbossa is given his hat with no feather. A frame later the feather appears. (02:04:55)
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: Jack grabs one of Blackbeard's six guns and shoots it after saying "They ain't loaded". After the explosion, he lowers his head in awe and raises it. A frame later, from a different angle, his head is lowered and he is in the process of raising it again.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: Jack strands Angelica on an island and tosses a gun on the floor. The gun swaps from laying on an 11 o'clock direction, to a 1 o'clock between shots.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: Jack is on top of the carriage's roof, passes by a group of columns and then by two arched buildings. When the angle changes to a ground level of the carriage, it's still passing by the previous columns.
5th Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: While standing on both carriages, Jack's feet are on the edge of the roof. A frame later, from a different angle, the left one is on the middle part of the roof. (00:17:35)
3rd Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When the mermaid is by the tree, the left part of the shirt's collar keeps changing positions, appearing and disappearing between shots.
3rd Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: Blackbeard kicks Barbossa's wooden leg and makes him fall next to a rock. A frame later Barbossa is about two meters away from it. (01:52:55)
3rd Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: Philip carries the mermaid to the tree's root, kneels down and then stands up. When the angle changes he is in the process of standing up again.
3rd Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: After the mermaid stands up aided by Philip, the weeds between her knees disappears between shots.
3rd Jul 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Continuity mistake: When the mermaid's tank breaks and she hugs herself, her hair style keeps changing repeatedly. (01:20:15)
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