Revealing: When Mandy falls inside the Porsche, her stunt double is noticeable because she is way older than her.
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Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992) - 41 mistakes
Factual error: The baby is expanded to approximately fifty times his height, width and girth but retains his orginal mass. This means he will have the same volume as one hundred and twenty five thousand babies of his original size, but will weigh the same as before he was enlarged! That child is going to weigh much less than the volume of air he displaces. He's going to float away.
Continuity: Seconds before Adam falls to the floor, Nick and Mandy show all the stuff the kid has in his pocket, but as he falls down, there's a wide look inside it and it's empty.
Continuity: When Nick and his dad walk to the kitchen to see what happened with the baby, Nick leaves the newspaper sideways on the table. He and his dad run back screaming and hide behind the couch. Angle changes and the newspaper is now placed perfectly straight.
Continuity: After Wayne and Diane crash through the storage door, several metal parts get stuck on the van's roof. During all the escape, the parts keep falling and re-appearing back on the roof.
Continuity: While Wayne is on top of the yellow Porsche's hood, the driver is looking up all the time. The immediate close-up shows him facing straight ahead and it's not until a couple seconds later when he faces upwards.
Continuity: While Nick and his father are driving home with the giant baby behind (an obvious green screen projection), the baby breaks a tube from the car and throws it to the floor. Nick bends down to pick up a prop located offscreen, to add up for realism, but the problem is that he bends down before the baby throws it, so the whole trick is revealed.
Continuity: After Wayne calls Mandy to babysit, the baby bottle on the kid's table keeps appearing and disappearing between shots.
Visible crew/equipment: Stage light is reflected on a glass door when the family chases the giant baby inside the house.
Continuity: When the (green-screened) giant baby breaks a part of the car and Nick picks it up, though it's similar, it's not exactly the same one.
Continuity: When Adam breaks Nick's guitar, the baby swaps sides in less than half a second between angles.
Continuity: When Adam breaks Nick's guitar he leaves it next to the loudspeaker. In the next angle it's meters away.
Continuity: When Mandy is tied up and Nick comes to untie her, her pigtails is just covering the suspender on the right. When the angle changes it is covering the opposite one.
Continuity: The yellow rope around Mandy's chest moves closer or further to the neck between shots.
Continuity: When Mandy falls inside the Porsche, the Indian toy is facing an 8 o'clock direction, a second later it's facing a 6 o'clock one.
Continuity: When Nick and his dad are on the other side of the couch, hiding from giant Adam, the cushion keeps changing positions between angles.
Continuity: Whe Nick watches Mandy in the water park, the stuff on the trolley changes positions between shots in less than a second.
Continuity: During the scene where Nick unties Mandy, the TV in front of the kid swaps from being normal size to really tiny.
Continuity: Before the microwave waves hit the baby, the yellow bowl on his table keeps changing positions all the time.
Continuity: When the mother and daughter are about to get inside the cab, two joggers pass by in the background. There's a shot of the father and son chatting for a long while, and when the angle goes back to the women, the joggers are on the same spot as before, instead of several meters away.
Continuity: Nick spills milk all over Mandy's t-shirt, but in the next angle it's spotless.
Continuity: When Nick's mom faints, she is laid on the couch. Depending on the angle her head is either facing the right or the left side.
Continuity: When Wayne jumps on giant Adam and falls down his pants, when he lands on the floor Adam's shoes are clean but from the very next shot they are really dirty.
Continuity: When Adam is throwing toys, the chair to the left of the screen keeps changing positions all the time.
Continuity: Nick asks his mom is he looks like a nerd and combs his fringe. Immediately after, a different angle shows it messed.
Continuity: In Las Vegas, when the baby leaves the car its position keeps changing between shots.
Continuity: When Nick meets Mandy, the guy by her right has a towel on his shoulder which keeps swapping from thick to thin between shots.
Continuity: When the mother hands Adam the giant rattler, Nick swaps from being next to her to three meters to the right in a split second.
Continuity: Adam's shoe laces magically tie themselves up when he is walking around in Vegas.
Continuity: When Adam escapes through the window, the state of the blinds he breaks changes between shots.
Revealing: When Adam falls down to the floor in Las Vegas, Nick and Mandy from inside his pocket are replaced by two noticeable mannequins.
Continuity: While the family is chasing Adam around the house, the time on the cuckoo clock changes drastically in less than a second.
Continuity: Adam is throwing toys all over the room and makes the ceiling lamp swing violently. In the immediate close-up the lamp is still.
Continuity: Adam feeds Nick a sandwich stretching on his chair and totally looses his balance, lifting an orange cushion underneath and almost falling off the chair. There's an abrupt cut and the kid appears repeating the movement, though now he's sitting straight, and the cushion is gone.
Continuity: When Adam is watching TV, the stuff underneath, next to the white basket, keeps changing from tidy to messy between shots.
Continuity: When Nick's mom is chocking the father, his right leg keeps changing from in between her legs, to being to the side of it.
Continuity: When Adam is throwing things at his brother, a shot from the outside of the house shows the blinds totally closed, but they appear slightly open from the inside. It's not until 10 minutes later that the father shuts them.
Continuity: When Nick cries to Adam, "I'll fix you, you little punk" after he breaks the guitar, the scarf next to the hat changes from tidy to spread all over the sofa.
Continuity: When the four police cars are riding together along Las Vegas street, the rear shot shows then beginning at the 4 Queens hotel but the immediate front angle places them many meters away.
Continuity: When they are about to test the laser on the doll, they put glasses on everyone. But when everything goes wrong the black glasses are gone.
Revealing: In Las Vegas, when the baby is about to pick the car and throw it to the floor, the close shot shows an obviously inflatable arm and hand.
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