Continuity mistake: After the seal runs away from Vera, the area where Vera is standing in the ice begins to crack. When Vera's phone starts ringing, her left foot is positioned around a foot away from the crack. Vera never changes her position, but when the shot is on her feet, her left foot has suddenly moved much closer to the crack. (00:22:05)
Casual Person
23rd Jan 2017
Norm of the North (2016)
23rd Jan 2017
Norm of the North (2016)
Plot hole: When Norm is being interviewed on the talk show, he is shown a clip from when he stopped Mr. Greene in the restaurant with footage that was taken on the phones of the patrons at the restaurant. A strong majority of the footage shown would be virtually impossible to shoot taking into consideration that it was filmed with a camera phone. Some shots take place in a position none of the patrons were even standing in and some shots feature close ups, zoom outs and precise camera movements following the action almost accurately which would have been impossible to film in real time. (00:55:15)
16th Jan 2017
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: Whilst Norm is chasing down the seal, a group of deers are playing poker. In the first shot, there is a small amount of poker chips shown on the ice they are using as a table, but in the next shot, there are more. It goes back and forth like that. (00:01:45)
16th Jan 2017
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Norm shows everyone the flamingo from Florida, everyone starts laughing and Socrates is seen behind Norm on his right. The shot cuts to Norm's father for two seconds, but when the shot cuts back, Socrates is suddenly standing behind Norm on left. There was not enough time for him to do this when the shot wasn't on him. (00:13:20)
16th Jan 2017
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: Norm's father tells Norm to step forward. There is a small rise in the snow behind Norm on his right. Norm's father then tells him he is not to go grandpa's land, but when Norm is shown again, a small rise in the snow has suddenly appeared behind him on his left. (00:13:25)
16th Jan 2017
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: Norm, Socrates and the lemmings are walking in the snow after Norm is unsuccessful about telling the others about the houses made by the humans. There is a trail of footprints in the snow left behind Norm from where he was walking. About thirty seconds later, Socrates flies away and the footprints behind Norm have suddenly vanished. (00:14:25 - 00:15:00)
2nd Jan 2017
Norm of the North (2016)
Other mistake: The actor, Laurence gets into a fight with two bad guys who mistake him for Norm. Laurence is sitting on top of the two bad guys after the fight and Laurence then punches one of the bad guys so hard that he flies across the street. The problem is, Laurence was sitting on top of the bad guy throughout the whole punch. (00:32:40)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Stupidity: In a flashback scene, a mother, father and daughter are taking pictures of Norm and two other polar bears. The daughter decides to run up to the three polar bears, but the parents appear to do nothing about it. The polar bears could have been a threat to their daughter for all they knew. (00:04:25)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When younger Norm is talking with his grandfather, there is a crack in the ice beside Norm about a foot away from him, but later on in the scene in a shot from behind Norm and Grandpa, Norm is suddenly standing about two feet away from the crack. (00:05:20)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Norm is having a therapy session with Socrates, in the establishing shot of the scene, Norm has a shadow cast on the ice in front of him when he is sitting on the couch. About two shots later, the shadow has vanished. (00:10:55)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Norm is trying to convince his father that the human house has something to with grandpa disappearing, Socrates is flying in and lands behind Norm. Behind Socrates is a rise in the snow, but the shot cuts and it disappears. (00:12:55)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Other mistake: When Elizabeth is telling Norm to fight for their home, there is an overview angle shown. In the shot, Elizabeth is to have left a trail of footprints in the snow, but Norm and the lemmings appear to have made no footprints at all. (00:15:20)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Vera and Olympia are walking up to the academy, the first shot shows them walking with Olympia walking behind Vera, but in the next shot, Olympia is suddenly walking ahead of her. (00:29:00)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When the Polar Council is talking with Mr. Greene about the condos in the Arctic being a ludicrous idea, Vera is standing almost beside him, but a couple of shots later, Vera is suddenly standing far behind him. (00:34:05)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Vera says "Meet Norm of the north" to Mr. Greene, Norm is standing on the floor away from the rug. The shot zooms in on him and takes a few steps forward without going anywhere near the rug. The shot cuts to him looking at the CCTV and stands still, but when he is on the CCTV in the next shot, he is suddenly standing on the rug. In the shot after that, he is standing on the opposite end of the rug. (00:37:00)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Mr. Greene walks over to his bookcase to activate the secret passage by pulling on the green file, there is a very light grey colour file on the left of the green file and a very dark grey file on the right of the file. In the shot where he pulls on the green file, there is suddenly a light grey colour file on both left and right of the file. The files go back in the next shot. (00:39:20)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Norm and the lemmings are searching Mr. Greene's office, Norm begins sniffing at a bookcase and the lemmings start climbing across it. There is a green file on the shelf that is used to open up a secret passage and on its right, a dark grey file. When the shot cuts, the dark grey file is now suddenly a light grey one, and in the next shot, the file is suddenly dark grey again. (00:50:35)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When the lemmings enter the cage that Grandpa is being held in, a shot shown with Grandpa in the focus shows the lemming in the middle standing with one of the cell bars directly behind him, but in the next shot, the cell bar is no longer positioned behind the middle lemming, who is now standing behind an open space in the cell. (00:51:30)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Norm barges into Mr. Greene's office to confront him about rigging the announcement, Mr. Greene's ball chair is on the rug positioned close to the edge and located near to the centre, but when Norm goes to leave the room about a minute later, the ball chair has moved much nearer to the opposite end of the rug. (00:59:55 - 01:00:50)
31st Dec 2016
Norm of the North (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Mr. Greene is telling Norm and Vera about the four houses already being built in the Arctic, he is holding his phone in his hand and the screen is on. When he is doing an impression of the investors, the screen is suddenly off, and two shots after that, the screen is suddenly back on again. (01:00:30)
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