Continuity mistake: The way the lamp in the observatory is bent changes between the shots where Professor Fossil says "Order 10 pounds of jelly beans" and the shot where he sings "We're going to the Arctic". (00:07:55 - 00:08:25)
Casual Person
18th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
18th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
Revealing mistake: During the earthquake, Tintin leaps onto a lamp post and the ground starts to rise. The inside of his mouth is green as this happens. (00:05:50)
18th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
Continuity mistake: A tyre explodes and the remains go all around Tintin. But by the time the earthquake begins, nearly 80% of the burst tyre remains have vanished. (00:05:25)
18th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
Revealing mistake: After Tintin exits the observatory, there is a shot showing us the meteoroid in the sky. In this shot, stars are visible through it. (00:04:40)
18th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
Continuity mistake: Tintin has a black and red striped tie as he and Snowy are walking. The tie becomes a black and brown striped tie by the time he returns to the apartment. (00:01:40)
15th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 2 - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: After rescuing Calculus, Haddock then hugs him. He has gloves on in this shot, but the gloves disappear in the next. (00:39:50)
15th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 2 - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: A soldier guarding the hotel picks up a smashed light bulb with 1cm of glass on the edge. Shot cuts and there is now about 4cm of glass on the edge. The smashed glass around the bulb also disappears. (00:35:30)
15th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 2 - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: When Tintin and Haddock walk through a corridor with two drunk men, Tintin opens a door. The key hole on the door is blue. For a few frames, the key hole becomes brown, then back to blue again. As he closes the door, the key hole is once again brown for a couple of frames. (00:34:50)
15th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 2 - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: The Italian driver's car has a number plate on the left front of his car. In the shot where he drives through the bushes, no numbers are seen on the plate. (00:30:15)
15th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 2 - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: When Haddock starts to fall out of the helicopter, he tugs on a seat belt. The wall around the seat belt is red. In the next shot, the wall is blue. Then when Haddock gets back into the helicopter, the wall is brown. (00:28:55)
15th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 2 - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: As Tintin, Haddock and Snowy are running whilst being shot at, Snowy is holding Calculus's umbrella with his teeth. The handle is facing the right as this happens. However, when they are shown in the helicopter, Snowy is suddenly seen holding the umbrella with the handle facing the left. (00:28:25)
14th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Other mistake: When the taxi gets hit, the number plate reads "GE 7051" on the back of the car, but when the taxi falls into the water, the number plate reads "GE 7054" on the front of the car. The number plate should be the same on both ends. (00:14:55)
14th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: When the villain runs out of Calculus's lab, he drops a box of cigars. The box is dark red when dropped, light red when Tintin notices it, and dark red again once Tintin picks the box up. (00:11:30)
14th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: Haddock is handed a bottle of wine. His hand covers the label in the first shot, but the label faces away from him in the next. (00:05:40)
14th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Other mistake: The villains look at Calculus on his radio. In this shot, Calculus has a reflection in the mirror but his eyes don't seem to have a reflection at all. (00:03:05)
14th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Revealing mistake: The villains stand in front of Marlinspike Hall. The shot after a close-up of their feet shows the clouds along with a storm. Look to the lower left corner and you will see part of the grey cloud doesn't have any color on it, like the animation cell has been scratched. (00:02:50)
14th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: Snowy finds a bone. He bites down on the middle of it. When Tintin takes the bone off him a few seconds later, Snowy is suddenly biting the near end of it. (00:01:15)
14th Aug 2013
Red (2010)
Continuity mistake: After killing all of the assassins, Frank places bullets in a frying pan and turns the stove on. When the bullets go off, the rest of the assassins start shooting at the house, destroying a snowman on Frank's porch. In all future shots of the porch afterwards, not only has the snowman disappeared, but there's also no sign of the snowman's remains either. (00:09:05)
12th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Black Island: Part 2 - S1-E11
Continuity mistake: The old Irish man has white pale skin. In the shot after the gorilla shows himself to the public, the old Irish man instantly has brown skin. (00:43:10)
12th Aug 2013
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
The Black Island: Part 2 - S1-E11
Continuity mistake: An old Irish guy has a teal jumper whilst a middle age Irish guy is talking to a reporter. In the next shot, that man now has a blue jumper. (00:43:10)
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