Ssiscool

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

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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)

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

Ssiscool

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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)

Super Grover

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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)

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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)

Mortug

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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)

Super Grover

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