Cats & Dogs (2001) - 29 mistakes

Continuity: As Buddy walks out into the street at the start of the movie when the cat is playing dead, you can see several parked cars on the street behind him. When the van backs up to 'catnap' buddy, there are no parked cars. Then as the van drives off again, there is a different bunch of parked cars in the street.

Continuity: It is clear throughout the movie that the dog that plays the character "Lou" changes from a male to a female. You can tell in different scenes when Lou is standing up, it's a male dog, and when Lou is laying on his back, belly facing up, it is a female dog.

Continuity: When the cats drive into the factory the same hubcap falls more than once from the car.

Continuity: When Mr. Tinkles starts the room on fire at the end, parts of the room that are nowhere near the fire, are on fire.

Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, a woman takes a pie out of the oven, leaving the oven open, and then gets hit by the cat flying through the window. As she falls back, the oven has magically shut.

Continuity: At the very beginning of the movie, as the 4x4 draws up outside the house, a woman (Carolyn) jogs past. However, in the next shot, the same woman has now moved back along the road, and jogs past the 4x4 again.

Continuity: When the kid is home after the soccer tryouts and he does not get in he kicks his soccer ball and misses the goal. Seconds later he kicks another ball, despite not having one there.

Continuity: In the scene where Lou has just met the other dogs and they are talking, after the jogger has passed, there is a shot from the ground where the dogs' heads are close together. It then cuts to a shot from above where the dogs aren't close at all.

Factual error: The "Russian Blue" isn't a Russian Blue at all. Russian Blues have pointed faces and green eyes. The flat faced, orange eyed kitten is a British Shorthair AKA British Blue.

Other: When Butch says "Welcome to HQ", his mouth isn't being animated.

Deliberate "mistake": Whenever we see the computer generated Lou, he never has genitals.

Continuity: When the boy is playing with Lou he rolls around in the mud, seconds later there is no mud on his knees or his bottom.

Continuity: When the cats are having a meeting and the maid comes in, she picks up Mr Tinkles. She goes to put him on her left shoulder. The camera quickly cuts and he is on her right shoulder. When the camera changes angles again the cat is on her left shoulder.

Revealing: When the cats are driving Mr Mason into the factory you can see skid marks on the ground from previous takes.

Continuity: In the shot of a jogger running past, the camera cuts to a different angle and the same person goes by again.

Continuity: When Mr. Tinkles is telling the housekeeper that he can talk, in one shot he is sitting down, then the camera cuts and he is now standing up.

Continuity: When the video of Mr. Tinkles threatening to 'put the Brody family to sleep' is seen in the background at HQ, it is noticeably different to when the dogs saw it first time. This is easier to verify when Mr. Tinkles says, 'they will be put to sleep.'

Factual error: When the Russian Blue is in Luke's house, there is a shot where Butch is tangled up in the telephone wire but it should actually be mirrored since it was the reflection in the cat's eyes.

Other: When Mr Tinkles & Co are in the car outside the flocking factory, you see them speeding around the corners wildly, but if you look on the floor there are already treadmarks from previous takes.

Deliberate "mistake": When the Russian cat sets the bomb on the big metal door, it is set for one minute. Yet this one minute seems to take three minutes to count down. I know it would be boring if it really was one minute, but why didn't they just make it so the cat set it to three minutes?

Continuity: When Lou walks knocks the door into the burning room where the kid and his parents are, you can see that Lou has a circled chain. However, in the next few shots it appears as a bone shaped chain and then it changes back to the circled chain.

Continuity: In the scene in the flocking factory when Jeff Goldblum's character is being confronted by the cat leader (Mr. Tinkles) another cat (Calico) is on Goldblum's shoulder. When the shot changes to an angle behind Goldblum, Calico disappears only to immediately reappear when the shot changes back to the angle facing Goldblum.

Continuity: The lawn goes from established grass to freshly laid sod back to established grass. In the daylight scenes you can tell that the grass is growing, probably 4 inches tall, not mowed recently. During one of the night scenes about half way through the movie, you can see that the grass is kind of sickly looking and you can also see the lines around the strips of sod. The next day while the kid is doing his soccer stuff, the grass is back to green and uncut.

Continuity: When Buddy is chasing the cat through the house at the beginning of the movie, there is a shot where the cat is sitting down at the end of a corridor. The shot changes and gets in closer to the cat, which is now standing up.

Continuity: When Buddy the Bloodhound is chasing the ginger cat through the womens' house at the beginning, you see a shot of the cat from Buddy's point of view which shows the cat sitting down. Yet in the next shot that zooms in on the cat, it is standing up.

Continuity: In the same scene as above, the kid's dad comes out of his lab with a bunch of wires all over him, and a mask on. When a camera shows an outside view and you can see the parents' shadows on the curtain, you can see his dad has no wires on him, and no mask.

Continuity: When the Russian Blue gets hit by the door he drops the remote control, and when the door shuts he drops it again.

Continuity: When the mother (Mrs. Brody) brings home Lou, and her back is to her son, the juice bag is on his right side (the left side of the table - looking at it). When she turns around to show him the puppy, the juice bag is on the far end of the table.

Revealing: When Lou looks up at the bone floating down, you can see the camera crew including the mic boom reflected in his eyes.