Continuity mistake: On the bridge over the lava, when Donkey steps on one of the boards, it breaks down the middle into two pieces. But when we see it falling, it's the entire board as if it had come off without breaking. (00:36:30)
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5th Jan 2004
Shrek (2001)
5th Jan 2004
Shrek (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Shrek backs into the two barrels at the tournament, they both have taps on them. He then bashes one of these off with the beer mug. But when Donkey rolls the other barrel the tap has vanished on that one as well. (00:24:00)
5th Jan 2004
Futurama (1999)
A Big Piece of Garbage - S1-E8
Plot hole: In this episode the mayor says that New New York has been garbage free for 500 years, but in most other episodes there's been tons of it lying around on the streets. (00:17:45)
5th Jan 2004
Peter Pan (1953)
Continuity mistake: When the lost boys are going into their hiding place, Hangman's Tree, the trapdoor is opened by one of them pulling on a noose. However, when Hook and his minions show up later, the noose has vanished.
2nd Jan 2004
Waterworld (1995)
Revealing mistake: When the Mariner hangs a man from a rope on his ship, the man jumps ahead a little: he puts his hand round his throat and makes strangled noises before the rope even goes straight.
1st Jan 2004
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Trivia: It took seven hours for Mike Myers to get into the Fat Bastard suit.
1st Jan 2004
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Fat Bastard explodes through Austin Powers' bedroom door, you can see where his right arm was meant to break through, but didn't. The piece of the door is shown still intact for a moment or two, but with the outline of his arm surrounding it. It disappears in the very next shot of the door only a second later.
13th Sep 2003
Billy Elliot (2000)
Continuity mistake: When Jackie is inside the bus leading to the mine, an egg hits his window, but when the bus is viewed from outside, the window is clean.
13th Sep 2003
Babe (1995)
Trivia: The talking pig is a combination of 48 real Yorkshire pigs plus an animatronic double. A makeup artist added toupee and eyelashes to each, and computer digitization manipulated pictures of the snout to make the pig appear to talk.
13th Sep 2003
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Trivia: Monroe wanted the film to be shot in colour (her contract stipulated that all her films were to be in colour), but Wilder convinced her to let it be shot in black and white when costume tests revealed that the makeup that Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon wore gave their faces a green tinge.
13th Sep 2003
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Revealing mistake: When Spats Columbo's gangsters are being searched for weapons at the Florida Hotel, the man doing the pat search can be seen placing the gun behind the gangster's leg, just before it supposedly drops out of his trouser leg.
13th Sep 2003
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Continuity mistake: In Florida, Josephine and Daphne are assigned to room 413, but from then on their room number switches back and forth between 413 and 415.
13th Sep 2003
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Continuity mistake: At night, on the train, Sugar gets the curtains stuck between the ladder and the side of the berth. In the next shot she opens the curtains while standing on the ladder and without moving it. (00:36:05)
13th Sep 2003
Babe (1995)
Continuity mistake: The alarm goes off at dawn, yet when Babe picks it up it is set for 10:25.
13th Sep 2003
Babe (1995)
Trivia: James Cromwell was a long time vegetarian, but decided to become vegan after playing Hoggett in Babe.
13th Sep 2003
Babe (1995)
Trivia: When James Cromwell was handed the screenplay for Babe, he thumbed through it to see how many lines he had. He saw that he didn't have that many, he decided that he would do it as a nice easy film. What he didn't realize was that he would have more screen time in this film than any of his previous films, just not that many lines.
13th Sep 2003
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Other mistake: When Sugar and Josephine are talking on the telephone, Sugar's eyes are moving backwards and forwards, obviously reading from a cue-card.
13th Sep 2003
Babe (1995)
Revealing mistake: At one point when the sheep are in a neat formation, you can see straps holding them still.
11th Sep 2003
Babe (1995)
Continuity mistake: The sheep thieves drop their ramp when they leave, but when Hoggett arrives it has disappeared.
11th Sep 2003
Babe (1995)
Other mistake: The fax machine Hoggett receives as a gift is different from the one he uses to send his application for the show.
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