The-Immortal

30th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Peter is on the rooftop, just before he does his "I'm back" line, he begins to run. He runs quite some distance before it goes to slow motion, yet a few shots later during the slow motion, he is back to where he started running. (01:22:05)

The-Immortal

30th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: When the garbage man enters Jameson's office, Jameson is holding a phone to his chest, yet in the following shot he is not holding the phone, and we didn't see him put it down in the previous shot. (01:05:40)

The-Immortal

30th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: When the people are watching Doc Ock with his experiment, Rosie is standing at the bottom of the stairs. When Doc Ock passes her his coat, she is then seen in the background standing next to a large TV screen. (00:32:35)

The-Immortal

30th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: Just after the car goes through the cafe window and almost hits MJ and Peter, they both get up and most of MJ's hair is blown back over her shoulders. However, in the following shots, there is now a lot more at the front of her shoulders, than in previous shots. Throughout the movie, her hair changes position in consecutive shots. (01:27:15)

The-Immortal

30th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Doc Ock robs the bank, Peter pushes Aunt May away, but in one shot he turns his chair to push away, yet in the following shot the chair is facing a different direction. (00:46:10)

The-Immortal

30th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: Just after the bank robbery, Spider-Man and Doc Ock are on the side of the building. Doc Ock says "oops, butterfingers." Spider-Man shoots a web to catch Aunt May. In this shot, Spider-Man is on one knee with the other one resting on the wall, yet in the following shot he is standing up and leaning back to pull Aunt May up. (00:48:25)

The-Immortal

29th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Spider-Man is at the front of the train trying to stop it, the windows at the front are already smashed, yet when he spins a load of webs, the two panes at the front smash again. (01:34:35)

The-Immortal

29th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: When we see MJ and her fiancee in her room close to the end, MJ says to him "Lean your head back for me." Her hand is not in his hand in one shot, but is in another. (01:23:40)

The-Immortal

29th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: Close to the middle of the film when Peter is in the big room where MJ announces her engagement, when Peter is finished talking with Harry at the bar he gets pulled away by Jameson, Harry then turns around and drinks, yet when it cuts to a shot of Peter and Jameson walking away, look in the background and Harry is still looking at Peter walking away. (00:51:45)

The-Immortal

29th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the film when we see Peter looking out of his window from his apartment, the girl from across the hall offers chocolate cake. When they are done eating, Peter is holding the fork with his thumb and in the following shot he is not. The fork has moved across the plate a little between shots. (01:17:30)

The-Immortal

29th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: Just after the bank robbery, Doc Ock and Spider-Man are fighting on the side of the building. When some rocks fall down, there is a man (that looks like Stan Lee) pulling a girl away from falling debris. There is a red car to the right of the screen and a yellow taxi to the left, yet in the following shot from a different angle, there are a few more people in front of the red car, and no dust on the ground where the rocks hit the floor. (00:48:35)

The-Immortal

28th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Spider-Man 2 mistake picture

Continuity mistake: On his last pizza delivery before he gets fired, when it first cuts to the receptionist and the room that she is in, the clock is very high up in this shot, above the receptionist's head, then in the following shot when the receptionist is looking in Peter's direction, the clock is much lower. (00:05:35)

The-Immortal

28th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Spider-Man takes back his suit from Jameson's office, Jameson looks up at the skyline, and there are no steel or metal bars running over the skyline, yet when the camera zooms out with Jameson yelling "I want Spider-Man", metal bars have appeared over the skyline that were not there in the previous shot. (01:29:55)

The-Immortal

28th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Peter starts to lose his powers, and tries to climb up the side of the building, in several shots, he is by a window, and he slips opposite the window, yet in the following shot he is a lot further above the window. His distance and position from the window changes in subsequent shots. (00:56:30)

The-Immortal

27th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film when we see Peter in Jameson's office, the black guy says, "Five minutes to deadline Jonah." Jameson raises his hand to him, but in the following shot it's a lot lower. Also, when he's talking about a food poisoning scare, he raises his hand high up to the right, yet in the following shot, it's far to the left of him. (00:07:45)

The-Immortal

27th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: When the garbage man is in Jameson's office, and Jameson is holding the Spider-Man suit, he is holding it almost at arms length to his right, yet in the following shot, it's a lot closer to his body. (01:05:50)

The-Immortal

8th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film, Peter bumps into Dr Connors. Peter has his bag on his left shoulder but in the previous shot you don't see him put it on his left shoulder. (00:08:45)

The-Immortal

7th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: At the very beginning when Peter walks into the pizza place with his boss, a policeman walks out, In the following shot, the policeman has vanished. (00:03:30)

The-Immortal

7th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the film when Peter takes his costume back from inside the Bugle, Peter's boss at the Bugle takes down the note left in a web, in one shot his fingers are half way up the note, in the following shot there right on the edge. (01:29:50)

The-Immortal

7th Aug 2005

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

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