Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth sits on deck and points out the burning word Tortuga, the wound lines beside her change position between the shot facing her and the next shot, behind her. (01:04:30)
Ssiscool
13th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
11th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: After Will slides down the sail, just as he grabs hold of the mast line, the cut sail is only tied down at its corners. After he puts the knife in his mouth, the sail is also tied down directly under the cut. (01:36:10)
8th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Norrington, Jack and Will bang away at each other on the beach, in the shot facing Elizabeth as she puts her hat back on, behind her Ragetti runs ahead of Pintel (3-4 ft) as they steal the chest. Next shot, it is Pintel in the lead as they run off. (01:49:00)
28th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When everyone is fighting on Isle Cruses, Jack is standing behind Will and he hits Will in the head with an oar. In the shot right after that, Jack is no longer standing behind Will. Will is reacting to getting hit so you know it was right after, and Jack wouldn't have time to move. (01:58:15)
27th Jul 2008
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: On the Dutchman, when Jones holds out the whip for Bill Turner to use on Will, the whip's direction flips between shots, it faces the opposite way when Bill grabs it. (01:14:20)
13th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: The cloth with the key drawing changes greatly throughout the film. This includes the actual drawing itself, the tears on the cloth, shape of the cloth, etc. (00:08:05 - 00:43:50)
14th Sep 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Jack sneaks away on the long boat, during the Kraken attack on the Pearl, there is a close-up of Jack looking back at the land, then picking up and dramatically opening the compass. However, in the previous shot showing the Pearl, the compass is actually seen at the bottom of the shot - already being held open. (02:02:45)
12th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Captain Bellamy and his sailors stand on deck, looking at the flaming Tortuga, their positions differ between the shot facing them and the next shot, from behind. (01:07:10)
31st Aug 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: After Bootstrap gives Jack the black mark, when Gibbs shouts, "Back to your stations, the lot o'ya," the cloth round his neck changes position, depending on camera angle. (00:17:00)
30th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Revealing mistake: When Jack, the monkey, runs off with Ragetti's false wooden eye, the pirate's eye socket does not look empty in specific shots, only covered by a contact lens. (00:41:10)
7th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Lord Beckett is trying to convince Will Turner to go after Jack Sparrow, he picks up a red hot poker from the fire and says that they've marked each other. The shot cuts to Will who asks simply "How did he mark you?" at which point the shot cuts back to Beckett and the formerly red-hot poker is already now a much cooler black. Glowing hot iron does not cool that quickly in air. (00:09:30)
9th Nov 2013
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jack meets Bootstrap, Bootstrap's hands are filled with barnacles but when he touches Jack's hand to give him "the black spot" his hand is suddenly blue with no barnacles. (00:13:50 - 00:15:30)
12th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Governor Swann says, "Stand your men down!" there are two soldiers at his sides, and the silver medallions on their white straps move up and down, between the wide shots and close-ups. (00:02:40)
17th Aug 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: After arresting Will and Elizabeth, when Cutler Beckett holds up Norrington's arrest note, the way the paper is folded and how he holds it differs between shots. (00:03:20)
14th Sep 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When the cannibal walks across the bridge and sees some prisoners fall to their death and the others escaping, there is a long stick, which has a black design on it, threaded through his lip. When he arrives back at Jack's roasting, the stick's design is very different. (00:36:10)
5th Jun 2008
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Will, Gibbs and the rest are in the ball cage and escaping the cannibals, they roll down a hill and hit a tree, which they then roll up. This would be impossible unless the weight is evenly balanced throughout the ball completely. (00:37:50)
8th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: At the edge of the cliff, in the first overhead shot, when the four men lift the coffin its "head" side is nearest the water. However, in the next shot the "foot" side is nearest, before they throw it in the water. (00:05:30)
25th Mar 2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film, right after Jack hands Gibbs the dead man's leg, Mr. Cotton throws Jack's coat about his shoulders, over his hair and bandanna, but when Jack turns around, in the next shot, his hair and bandanna are on the outside of the coat. No one touched them, and Jack seems oblivious to his various accoutrements, so he wouldn't have done this either. (00:06:50)
28th Nov 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Jack shoots a hole in the casket killing the bird, the amount of feathers on the casket differ between the shots. (00:06:00)
14th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: After the cage of bones falls into the water, Cotton reaches up out of the water to open the broken cage, but in the next shot he is still under the water, behind Marty. (00:40:45)
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