Directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Dan Aykroyd, David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott
Continuity: During the scene in the mall when the girl is in the dressing room, she keeps putting on more layers of clothing. But as they are shooting different shots she will have a hot pink shirt on, then it is back on the hanger, and then back on again. It switches back and forth many times.
Other: At the very beginning of the movie, when the guy throws the match into the house, it doesn't enter through the window. The match crashes and bounces back, but the fire inside the house still occurs.
Continuity: In the scene where Dan Akroyd's character is discussing the aliens with the military the digital clock behind him reads different numbers each time they show it.
Continuity: During one of the final scenes in a laboratory, some of the characters are talking about finding 500 gallons of selenium to help stop this evolution. When they ask, "Where are we going to find 500 gallons of Selenium at 2 o'clock in the morning?" there is sunlight coming through the trees outside the window.
Continuity: Opening scene - meteor smashing into the car and you see the windshield flying out. Next day, character is driving the car and viola the windshield is still intact.
Factual error: At the end of the film, when Duchovny and Jones are on the ladder truck shooting the head and shoulders, they are yelling "go go go". They slide down the ladder and the next shot is the fire truck speeding away. Movie elapsed time 5 seconds. It is a physical impossibility for a fully extended ladder to be lowered, retracted and bedded in a span of less than 4-7 minutes. Even if the hydraulic lines are cut, the ladder would remain upright and not collapse/retract.
Continuity: In the department store scene, on the bridge, Ira cocks the shotgun before the alien gets to him. When the bird arrives, he cocks it without firing a shot, and then shoots. A shell doesn't leave his gun when he cocks it the second time.
Factual error: When Ira is first examining the blue fluid under the microscope, he switches the objective from a lower power setting to a higher power setting, but the image does exactly the opposite - goes from a higher magnification to a lower one.
