Continuity: At the beginning, when the NASA spacecraft lands on the MAC planet, there are three silver antenne around the side of the craft which are absent in some shots.
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Mac and Me (1988) - 76 mistakes
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Continuity: When the MACs' are sucked into the NASA spacecraft, an explosion occurs, causing a grey cylinder capsule to fly off. In the next shot the capsule is attached to the craft again.
Continuity: In the panning shot of the NASA lab, the clock's minute hand can be seen on the half hour mark, yet in the close-up of the Professor, the time reads eight twenty.
Visible crew/equipment: When the MAC's emerge from the NASA craft in the lab, there a shot through the lab glass of the father MAC, with the reflection of a cameraman holding a camera in the glass.
Continuity: After the father MAC smashes the panel of glass at the science lab, there is more glass missing in the second shot, although no further breakage is heard nor seen.
Visible crew/equipment: MAC is grabbing the electric fence, being blown backward by the helicopter. When he releases his grip, wires can be seen attached to his hands.
Continuity: When MAC is blown by the helicopter, he lands on a man's windshield, and the man has to start dodging traffic. Between shots the traffic he is dodging changes.
Visible crew/equipment: When the man's car swerves out of control after MAC lands on his windshield, a pile-up occurs. In this scene, it can be seen that the drivers are either absent, or dummies.
Visible crew/equipment: In the pile up scene, due to MAC covering up a man's windshield, a huge truck swerves and flies over a car, only the big black ramp used for the stunt is rather visible.
Continuity: When Eric is playing with his remote control car, he stops and takes the battery out. In the next shot, when MAC touches the car, the car is now in a different position.
Continuity: After the delivery guy puts Eric's TV down, it changes position in the following shot, and so do the cables on top of it.
Continuity: When Eric wheels himself outside in his wheelchair, to follow the footprints, as he exits the double doors, he goes down a ramp. Later, when his brother walks through the doors, the ramp has vanished.
Continuity: When Eric following the wet footprints outside, to the edge of the lawn, the footprints change in appearance drastically, between shots.
Continuity: When Eric first talks to Debbie, as she stands on the balcony, the position of the bracelets on Debbie's right wrist keeps changing.
Continuity: When we see the two holes drilled through the wall, by MAC, there is nothing above the holes being made, yet in all the following shots a large painting is above the holes.
Audio problem: When Eric's wheelchair goes out of control, and he starts to roll down the hill, Debbie cries out "Eric" but her mouth doesn't move.
Visible crew/equipment: After Debbie and Eric have captured MAC in the vacuum, it goes out of control, causing Debbie to get flung around the room. The track that goes up the wall, across the ceiling, down the other wall and across the floor is visible for this stunt.
Continuity: When Eric and Mike find the newspaper clippings and papers left on the table by MAC, to try and tell them about where he came from, the papers' positions change between shots
Continuity: When Debbie's mum stops the car, as MAC speeds past them on a remote control car, she parks on the right side of the road. In the next shot her car is on the left, then back on the right.
Continuity: When Eric and Debbie are looking out the window at the cops, Eric is lightly pushing down on the blinds. He is pushing the blinds down in the center of the window. In the next shot he is pushing the blinds down much harder at the bottom of the window.
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