Home Alone 3 (1997) - 51 mistakes

Continuity: In the very first scene, a black car pulls up behind the red car. As the car swings round, only one barrel is visible from the long shot. When it cuts to the red car's POV looking towards the car pulling up, there are now two barrels visible, one very close to the red car.

Continuity: When Mrs. Hess gets off the plane to Chicago, in a wideshot as she places her bags down, her scarf hangs out of the bag, yet in the closeup of her taking out the scarf it is tucked in the bag.

Continuity: When Alex is making his project tip the fishfood into the bowl, between shots the goldfish in the bowl switches sides.

Continuity: Alex puts the present down to take off his hat and scarf, by the front door. Between shots the present moves a few inches closer to the bag next to it.

Continuity: Alex rings the bell to get his Mom's attention and the box's position changes between shots.

Continuity: Alex starts turning off Mrs. Hess' TV from the attic. The ornaments in front of the TV move between shots at least twice, in consecutive shots.

Visible crew/equipment: When Mrs. Hess' TV is off, if you look closely you can see the camera filming the shot and it's stand.

Audio problem: When the police are called for the first time, two officers burst into the house and are confronted by a dog. The alarm strangely stops three seconds after bursting in.

Continuity: At one point, the mother gets an audible page. When she looks at the display to see the number, you can clearly see that the pager is set to "silent."

Continuity: One of the criminals almost gets run over by Alex's mother while running with the dog. As she leans down to say "have a nice day," she places her hand on the roof of the car. The shot turns to Alex's mother, and the criminal's hand can be seen placed on the window, not the roof.

Continuity: Alex places Doris (in his box) down on the table in the attic. The phone and remote control are neatly placed on the edge. However the shot changes to show Doris placed in between the phone and remote, which have changed places.

Continuity: When Alex revs the toy car backward to drag the rug over the stairs into the other room, we can see in one shot the rug only reaches the bottom of the second step, whereas in the next shot of the car coming down the steps, the rug is now further down and you can see that a ramp has been put under it so the car does not fall over.

Visible crew/equipment: Alex fixes the TV to show a camera picture. The next scene when two of the criminals pull up in the car next to a mirror, a crew member is blatantly visible in the reflection, if you look closely on the left hand side.

Continuity: When the remote control car that was spying on Beaupre is found, the car goes off and spins on some water in the kitchen, and you can see the laundry basket with a pile of clothes in it. When Beaupre then runs into the room, the pile of clothes is now much different.

Continuity: The pile of clothes that falls onto the remote control car changes between shots.

Continuity: When Beaupre is approaching the pile of clothes that has the remote control car under, Alex rushes to the attic window and uses his remote control to turn the TV on in that house, to stall Beaupre. There is an item on top of the TV and in front of it too. These two items disappear as Beaupre approachs the TV.

Continuity: When one of the criminals confirms her position as "4th house, moving to the alley," the shot moves to Alex running from one window to the other, with nothing in his hands. He goes to push open the window and the shot changes again. Alex now has the car remote control as the window opens.

Continuity: When Alex gets his remote control car back, he lifts up the viewfinder of the camcorder, then pushes it back down and lays his hand on it. Then he opens the tape compartment of the camcorder, which is empty, and in this closeup the viewfinder is back to pointing upwards. Then in the next wideshot it is pushed back down again and Alexs hand is back on it.

Continuity: Alex opens the closet to get his mum's coat, and the big red boxing glove springs out. He then picks up a black pole from the floor in a closeup ... which wasn't there in the previous wideshot.

Continuity: When the villain with the long hair is being electrocuted by the wire outside the front door, in a close up shot his ski pants are on fire, then in a further away shot, they are not, then in another close up they are on fire again.