Stupidity: When Thang, Rose and Didi tell Josephine they will help her build a new ant hill, she decides that she does not need her wings anymore and proceeds to break them by stomping on them. This decision was completely illogical as she has no idea if her wings will be useful in future. She could have easily just stopped using them. (00:04:20)
Casual Person
5th Nov 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
5th Nov 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Revealing mistake: Just after agreeing to help Josephine with her ant farm, Didi mentions using Queen Michelle's old nest. It cuts to Josephine, where she says "Hmm", then cuts back to Didi where she says it was abandoned last Friday. It then cuts back to Josephine saying "Hmm" again. The two shots of Josephine are the exact same shot, though the second is reversed. This is noticeable as Josephine's movements and the movements of the plants appear the same, but reversed when shown the second time. (00:04:30)
5th Nov 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Revealing mistake: When Josephine breaks her wings, her body casts a shadow on the ground, but her wings do not. (00:04:25)
5th Nov 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Revealing mistake: When the geckos are threatening Gigi, there is a shot of the blue gecko walking around her. Two shots after this happens, the exact same shot is repeated a second time. (00:11:50)
5th Nov 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Revealing mistake: At the end of the scene where Josephine is thanking Thang, Rose and Didi for helping her, Josephine says it's all going according to plan and then it transitions to the next scene. Just after she finishes the line, the animation stops before it transitions. This is noticeable as Josephine freezes on the spot. (00:13:40)
5th Nov 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Josephine is explaining her plan to her newborns, she stabs through a seed using her antenna. She then throws the seed, but the seed is completely intact. (00:15:25)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Revealing mistake: When Thang discovers Josephine's plan, she gasps. The exact same audio for her gasping is repeated on three different occasions in the scene. (00:15:15)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Revealing mistake: When the geckos are chasing butterfly Sal, there is a shot of Sal flying, followed by the blue gecko running towards him, followed by the green gecko running behind the blue gecko. Around two and half minutes later, the exact same shot has been repeated. (00:17:35 - 00:20:05)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Sal is being chased by the geckos, in one shot, the two geckos are chasing him with one behind the other. It then cuts to another shot, where the second gecko has suddenly disappeared. (00:20:05)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Sal lands on the spider's web, his position on the web changes between the shot where he first lands on it and the shot just after the spider notices him. (00:20:15)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Revealing mistake: When the geckos are eating Josephine's children, there is a shot where three ants are shown walking one behind the other directly into the path of the blue gecko and being eaten. A couple seconds later, just before Josephine says "Turn around", the same shot of the three ants walking one behind the other into the blue gecko's path is repeated. However, this time the shot cuts after the first ant is eaten, but is repeated again two shots later where the two other ants are eaten. (00:22:30)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Stupidity: Just after the geckos have finished eating Josephine's children, Thang, Rose, Didi and Sal attempt to sneak away. They attempt to sneak away from the geckos by walking directly in front of them which results in the geckos spotting them. If they attempted to get away in literally any other direction, the geckos would not have seen them. (00:22:50)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Continuity mistake: When the geckos notice Thang, Rose, Didi and Sal attempting to sneak past them, the four are standing directly in front of the geckos. The geckos then begin to approach the four and there is suddenly a large distance in between them. (00:22:55)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Continuity mistake: When the blue gecko says "Say goodbye to the trickster butterfly", Sal replies saying he is not a butterfly. Didi is seen standing behind Sal when he is saying this. It then cuts to a different shot, where Didi and Sal are now side by side. (00:23:00)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Continuity mistake: Just after Gigi pulls off the geckos' tails, she places them on the ground in front of her. The shot then cuts to a closer shot of her telling Sal she likes moths, and the tails that were in front of her have suddenly disappeared. (00:23:25)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Continuity mistake: After Gigi leaves, Thang, Rose, Didi and Sal start talking about how the geckos took care of Josephine. It then cuts to a shot where there is a short distance between Didi and Sal. Didi then tells Sal she likes his wings, and the two have suddenly moved closer. (00:23:55)
5th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Thang, Rose and Didi are telling Sal thanks to him they survived another day in this "buggy bug world", Didi is standing beside Sal at an angle to his left and Thang and Rose are standing beside Sal at an angle to his right. The shot then cuts to a wide shot and the four are suddenly standing side by side with no rotation at all. (00:24:15)
4th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Sal is first seen on the leaf, he is shown eating part of a plant. A wobbling sound is then heard, and when it cuts back to Sal, the plant he was eating has disappeared. (00:00:15)
4th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Revealing mistake: When Sal is eating on the leaf, the caterpillar next to him can be seen eating, but there is nothing in its mouth. He just appears to be mining the actions of eating. (00:00:10)
4th Oct 2018
Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Thang, Rose and Didi walk up to Sal, the wide shot shows Thang and Sal to be mere inches apart when Thang stops walking. It then cuts to a close-up shot of Thang, where there is a gap to her left, and Sal is not visible in frame, even though they were right next to each other in the wide shot. (00:02:00)
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