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When Tim Allen is looking at the reindeer, one reindeer's ear moves. At this point you can see the metal robot in the base of the ear. See more...

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Not a mistake, but another elf sighting within the movie. In the Parent's Day scene in Charlie's classroom, watch the boy sitting directly behind Charlie in the blue shirt. When Charlie walks back to his desk to retrieve his glass ball to show everyone, you can see the boy's pointed ears. Another note of interest is when Charlie says "my Dad is Santa Claus" and it cuts to a wide shot showing all of the kids, this kid is the only one not laughing. See more...

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The Santa Clause (1994) - 17 corrections

starring Judge Reinhold, Tim Allen (add more)

Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click "edit" under an entry, then choose "correct entry". You can also submit corrections for corrections, if you think a mistake has been unfairly removed.

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When Scott Calvin is looking in the window at Charlie after he is not permitted to see him, you see his Scott Calvin's face, and it is snowing. The shot cuts to Charlie-in-the-window, and it's not snowing, then back to Scott Calvin, and it's snowing again. [It's snowing in every shot. It's difficult (almost impossible) to see the snowflakes when the camera is zoomed in on something. You can see the effect the first time we see through the window; you can still see the snowflakes, but just barely. After another zoom in, they essentially become invisible.]
Edit Corrected by Knever
At the beginning of the film, just as Scott Calvin takes over the Santa duties, he visits the house of a little girl named Sarah. Right before Scott rudely asks Sarah if she still wants the doll and flings it into her Christmas tree, Sarah asks Scott why he doesn't look like Santa, why he has no beard, etc. You can easily tell her two front top teeth are missing (loss of baby teeth). However, towards the end of the film and seemingly a year later to the date, Scott (now full blown as Santa Claus) visits Sarah's house again and he is now very kind to her. When she tells him that the milk she left him this time was soy milk, you can easily see her two front top teeth are still missing. Very unlikely a year later. [Already submitted and corrected - it's unlikely but it sometimes takes that long.]
Edit Corrected by littlestar
When the elves are tying up the security guard, one of the elves is holding his ribbon-sprayer, but nothing is coming out of it. [Watch closely. Three of the elves are spraying the police officer and one is standing next to Charlie watching and laughing. The three doing the spraying all have ribbon coming out of the guns.]
Edit Corrected by wizard_of_gore
At the soccer game, the activity behind the bench Tim Allen is reclined on changes. [This is way too vague. I have now watched this movie dozens of times and, since they are in a public place, naturally whatever is going on behind Scott changes from shot to shot. There is nothing unusual about it.]
Edit Corrected by wizard_of_gore
When Scott Calvin and Charlie have got in the sleigh and Scott has shouted 'Let's go', the sleigh flies off the roof and moves onto the road along side a truck. At first glance the sleigh looks like its moving on the ground, then in the next shot it looks like its off the ground, and then it goes back to moving back on the ground before flying off to deliver presents. [Scott cannot control the sleigh, so it makes sense that it's moving up and down and occasionally hitting the ground.]
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During the jail break scene, the ELF cuts the jail door hinges with tinsel. Then they lift the door out of the way. When they pull the door out, the bolt is flush with the door and was not locked. [The bolt is flush because it was cut too.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
When Scott and Charlie are at the North Pole, you can't see their breath. [Snow doesn't have to mean temperatures below freezing. We have a lot of snow where I live, but you don't always see your breath, even in December. It is not just a matter of cold, but also of humidity.]
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When Scott is looking at the huge list of names with "Armand Asante" on it, you can see that the second page is the same as the first. [The elves told him to check it twice that is why the page is the same.]
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In the scene where Santa is getting his new equipment for his run, the elf giving him the stuff is named Quentin. This is a reference to the James Bond films - the guy who issues Bond's equipment is named simply Q. [Without any evidence that the filmmaker's deliberately intended this, it could also just be a coincidence.]
Edit Corrected by wizard_of_gore
When Tim Allen shouts to Santa on his roof and he starts to fall, you can tell by the speed that he's falling that when they cut to the next shot (view looking down from the roof), Santa should be further down on the roof than he actually is. [The shots are showing the exact same moment, just from two views, which is a common filmmaking technique showing a single action from different angles. ]
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Near the end of the movie when Neal is hanging up stockings on the mantle, he only hangs one up for Charlie. In the next scene, there are three stockings hanging (one for each family member). [We only SEE him hanging up Charlie's stocking, that doesn't mean he didn't hang up the other two as well.]
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Santa's card said to put on the suit and the reindeer will know what to do. Scott did not put on the suit, but the reindeer flew him to another house. He was not yet bound by the Santa Clause, he was not yet Santa Claus, the reindeer should not have flown. [He said "Let's go.", so maybe the reindeer assumed that he meant to fly to another house.]
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When Scott shouts at Santa he falls off the roof because of the slippery snow. Minutes later both Scott and his son climb on the roof via a tailor 'presented' ladder and both have absolutely no problem walking on the slippery snow. [Santa was startled and lost his balance when Scot shouted.]
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The girl who left out milk the first Christmas and buttermilk the second Christmas for Santa had a tooth missing, pretty prominently in the front. The next year, everything is the same, including the missing tooth. Wouldn't it have grown back? [When my sister lost her front teeth it took her about two years to grow them back. Maybe this little girl took a while to get her teeth back, too.]
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When Scott Calvin hears something on the roof and he goes outside, he sees Santa on the roof. He calls to Santa, "hey you", and Santa turns around and slips. As he's sliding down the roof he's coming straight for Scott (and it shows that from Santa's view, he's going to hit him) but in the next shot Santa has landed way to the right of Scott and on a big pile of nice soft snow. [Scott was actually standing way out, away from the house. The angle of the roof at that height happened to be pointing directly at Scott, because that was where he needed to be in order to see on top of the roof. So from the camera view from the sliding Santa, he appears to be heading straight for Scott. But as Santa reaches the edge of the roof, gravity will pull him downwards, instead of making him head into Scott, making him land in the position as shown in the movie.]
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When Scott was at Denny's, he wanted to order egg nog, but when he was at the little girl's house, he said he was lactose-intolerant. [He told the little girl that he was lactose intolerant because he didn't want to drink the milk that she left for santa.]
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When Scott Calvin is wearing the Santa suit in the early part of the film, the coat has a strip of white fur down the front. However later, as Santa Claus in Dr. Miller's living room, when he gets arrested, the coat has two fur pom-poms down the front. And after he gets released and comes back to the house, there is only one fur pom-pom on the front of the jacket. [He may have changed the coat or had a new one made. It was a year later and they made other changes (sled, hat, fire-proof jump suit, etc...)]
Edit Corrected by Bruce Minnick