Continuity: When they dig up the chest and Will arrives, there are long shadows. Yet, when Jack, Will and Norrington duel, they have very short shadows directly beneath them. The large chest's shadow changes as well.

Continuity: When Tia Dalma holds the tray with two candles and a mug (the others were given out), as she asks if they would be willing to do anything, the position of the mug changes between shots.

Continuity: When Cutler Beckett enters his office and places the lantern on the desk, the handle is down. However, when Elizabeth walks out of the shadows, the lantern's handle is upright, then down again in a later shot.

Continuity: In the scene when Captain Sparrow, Elizabeth, and Norrington dig up the chest and open it, we can see that there are documents filling the chest all the way to the top. The shot changes, and now you can see that there are fewer documents in the chest, even though they haven't started pulling them out yet.

Continuity: In a close-up, just as Jack is freed from the hole in the water wheel, we see the axle’s circular wood frame with its spinning bars, above and behind him, as he runs the wheel. At the end of this close-up, Jack’s happy facial expression gives way to a look of dread, as he supposedly sees an approaching metal bar about to make contact with his face. This is impossible, since the bars are spinning behind him. After a close-up of the actual bar, in the next shot as Jack’s face makes contact, he stands farther back and is now at the center of the circular wood frame, so as to be in perfect alignment with those spinning bars.

Continuity: When Elizabeth, Pintel and Ragetti fight Jones's crew, Ragetti tosses Elizabeth the sword which she catches in her left hand, as she holds another sword in her right hand. She then tosses the sword from her right hand to Pintel, as she holds the other sword in her left hand. Next shot, when Pintel catches it, the sword in her left hand has disappeared – note her empty open hand, only to reappear in the next shot.

Continuity: During the second attack on the Pearl, the Kraken visibly destroys the ladder from the 2nd deck to the top deck. Later, after the Kraken has been blown up, Cotton and Gibbs climb up the same ladder.

Revealing: When the fruit from Jack's "kebob" land next to him, they gently plop to the ground intact, despite having fallen from a great height. Although Jack also lands intact, his fall was cushioned by a number of obstacles—the multiple wooden bridges, the bamboo pole catching between the rocks, the unwinding rope, etc. With the exception of the pineapples, the already-damaged fruits (from being speared) are too thin-skinned or the rinds too brittle to have survived an impact from the height, speed, and angle shown. These are the SAME fruits (papayas, mangos, and melons) that easily splattered into pulp when thrown at Jack by the native women with far less force, a slower speed, and at a close range.

Continuity: As the pirates get dragged through the large castle doors, you see four pirates hanging in metal cages, all the way up to the castle doors. When the castle doors close from an above shot, no hanging pirates are in view.

Factual error: At the bar in Tortuga, one of the three musicians is seen playing the 'concertina', but it was not invented yet. Sir Charles Wheatstone, an English physicist (b.1802 - d.1875), invented the 'concertina' around the mid 1800's. The 'concertina' is a small musical instrument like an accordion, with bellows and keys.

Continuity: At Tia Dalma's, the key cloth is placed on the table, and in following shots the things such as the cloth, bones and jewelry scattered on the table change position.

Continuity: When Elizabeth demands, "What are the charges?" the guard is just putting the shackle on her left wrist, with the right off as well. However, in the previous shot the left shackle is already on and the right is being put on.

Visible crew/equipment: After Will is captured, when Jack first opens his make-up laden eyes, the white square reflections of the reflector shield is visible in his eyes; as it is in other characters' close-ups as well.

Continuity: When William is talking to Cutler Beckett after being arrested, a fishing ship is seen out on the ocean, not moving. In the next shot, the ship has disappeared.

Continuity: When Pintel and Ragetti argue over the pronunciation of "Kraken" whilst rowing, the loose end of Jack’s red bandana changes position and jumps from his back to over his shoulder between shots more than once.

Continuity: Right after James, Jack, and Will engage in sword fighting, Elizabeth runs after them shouting and angry. As she looks at them initially, the background behind them is tropical forest and mountains. The scene cuts back to Elizabeth, then returns to the fighting men but the background for the rest of the scene is ocean and beach, with no mountains to be seen.

Continuity: During Jack's escape, as he attempts to flee from the cannibals, when he enters the hut there are silver objects, such as tea pots, etc, on the table, which change position in following shots; and the cup and saucer disappear in the shot facing the table.

Continuity: When Will has been rescued from the Flying Dutchman and they go up on deck just before the kraken attacks, Will is on deck. A moment later he is seen on top of the mast, with no time to have got up there. The others who had come up from the cabin had only just emerged.

Continuity: Right after the monkey knocks Jack's hat off, there is a shot of the monkey on the rigging. The moonlight is shining on him, but he looks completely normal. Shouldn't he be cursed? It's not dawn, the next shot is a time lapse, as evidenced by the fact that the Pearl had moved far enough away from Jack's hat that the other ship didn't see it.

Deliberate "mistake": When Shishka-Jack falls, the rope is tied round his left ankle. When the pole gets stuck, in the second close-up of Jack spinning free the rope is actually tied round his right ankle (his spinning loose of the rope is also the opposite way).