The Road to El Dorado (2000) - 54 mistakes

Continuity: When the sailor unrolls the map to show Miguel an Tulio, the stone symbolizing the gods is to the left of the skull. But when Miguel is reading it and says "Look, look" the stone is directly under the skull.

Continuity: When Miguel and Tulio first arrive to the island, they bump into a skeleton. When Cortes arrives at the island later in the film, there's only a skull. The bones that were there earlier have vanished.

Continuity: During the song "On the Trail We Blaze" Miguel and Tulio pass by a rock shaped as an animal with its mouth open and there are vines hanging over it. Later in the film, Tzekel-Kan leads Cortes and his men to this rock, and the vines hanging over it are different.

Continuity: After the ball game, there is a cut over Miguel's eyebrow. Right after this scene, the cut has disappeared.

Continuity: During the sacrifice scene, Chel throws out petals from a bowl. You can tell the bowl is almost empty, but a second later the bowl is much fuller than it previously was.

Continuity: When the two men are climbing over the fence to get away from the bull, you can see that the the part of the fence they're climbing is made up of 15 planks, but in the very next shot it's made up of 9 planks.

Continuity: The number of natives holding onto the ropes to prevent the giant statue from falling keeps changing in the final scene. There are usually several huge rows of them, but in some shots there are no more than 15 or so.

Continuity: When Altivo the horse jumps out of the boat he has normal horseshoes, then after Cortes leaves he reveals his golden horseshoes, then when Chel stirrups him he is back in normal horseshoes.

Continuity: When the two men are running away from the soldiers, they see two water barrels and there is no board underneath them. A second later, the men jump into them, and now there is a board underneath them.

Continuity: The color of the weapon Tzekel-Kan uses to punch the victim into the whirlpool, changes from brown to white to brown again.

Continuity: The armor of the soldier Tulio bumps into in the beginning goes from being shiny enough to see his reflection in it, to not shiny at all, to really shiny again.

Continuity: When Cortes comes to the El Dorado island, he sees that Miguel and Tulio's footprints lead directly from the boat to the jungle. But this is not what happened. Miguel and Tulio arrived to the island, bumped into two skeletons, ran back to the boat, walked around the beach for a while, and THEN went into the jungle. This is what the footprints should have shown.

Continuity: When the men first arrive at the El Dorado island, their boat constantly changes position.

Continuity: At the start of the film, when Miguel wins the map, he rolls it up vertically. Later in the film, when they first arrive at the El Dorado island, he takes it out of his shirt and unfolds it horizontally.

Continuity: When Miguel kisses the skull after arriving at El Dorado's island it is facing towards the ocean. But when Cortes arrives later on, it is facing away from the ocean.

Continuity: At the start of the ball game Tzekel-Kan puts the ball down on a flat surface, shouting "Play ball.' But in the next shot there are a couple of tiny pieces of rock near the ball.

Continuity: As Miguel kisses the sand he bumps into a skeleton. The skull is the first part he sees. However when the camera rises over the skeletons, you can see the skeleton's arm is stretched out. It wasn't there earlier.

Continuity: When Miguel and Tulio jump out of their rowboat yelling "It's land." you can tell there's nothing on the beach. But then they kiss the sand and a skeleton has appeared.

Continuity: When the two men are under the deck planning an escape, Tulio has a black eye. A little later, when they are escaping by boat, the black eye is gone. A black eye would have taken longer to heal.

Continuity: When Tulio puts the dice into his vest, he puts them into the right side. When he's scooping up the gold and the dice fall out, they fall out of the left side.