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The Grinch: And they'll feast, feast, feast, feast. They'll eat their Who-Pudding and rare Who-Roast Beast. But there's something I just cannot stand in least... Oh no. I'M SPEAKING IN RHYME!

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - 21 mistakes

Directed by Ron Howard, starring Bill Irwin, Christine Baranski, Clint Howard, Jeffrey Tambor, Jim Carrey, Molly Shannon, Taylor Momsen (add more)

Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

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Continuity: After the Grinch stole all of the presents, Officer Wholihan gets into his police car and drags the mayor's bed from out of his house. When the bed smashes through the window it breaks the top off the middle post of the bed. Then when it comes back to the shot of the bed it's been fixed.

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Continuity: After the Grinch unscrews the light bulb in the town Christmas tree, all the lights in the town go dark and the Grinch starts to take off in his sled-thing. When they show a close up of him, the lights are on. Then a few seconds later, the lights are off again.

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Revealing: When the mayor has his head shaved by the Grinch, Clint Howard grabs the clippers and shaves his own head down the middle. His hair is yanked off of his head before the he even moves his hand. Even better in slow motion.

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Continuity: When Betty Lou watches Mathra May shoot the lights from her machine, she is holding a string of lit christmas lights. Then in the first shot when she leans over the roof, holding the christmas lights, the strings of lights is off and are then lit in the following shots.

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Visible crew/equipment: When the two boys are in front of the Grinch's front door, a big monster comes out of the front door, scaring them. The boys then jump off the side of the rocks, and a cable attached to them is perfectly visible.

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Continuity: When the Grinch is messing up the mail in the back room, he takes out a package and puts it in another one. When he takes his hand out the package falls out and lands next to the pile of presents. The mistake is when the camera goes to another shot, the package is not lying on the ground as it was before.

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Continuity: When the Grinch burns the christmas tree, in an overhead shot he isn't anywhere in sight, then in the following closeup he's back beside the ashes of the tree.

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Continuity: As the Grinch and Max stand by the 'Dumpit to Crumpit' pipe, Max is missing his collar. It's back on him after they arrive at the dump.

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Revealing: During several of the scenes on the mountain you can tell that the rocks are made of some sort of soft material because you can see them crumple when he gets near them.

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Continuity: When Miss Martha May is shooting the lights onto her house you see them lit as they are being feed into and coming out of the machine when the camera is pointing on her but when it's a far off shoot only the lights coming out are lit not the ones on the feeding wheel.

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Audio problem: When the Grinch and Cindy Lou are coming down the mountain on the sleigh, and nearly crash into Lou and the Christmas tree, when Cindy's mum goes to get her off the sleigh, you can hear Cindy say "Mommy", but her lips don't move.

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Visible crew/equipment: While The Grinch is returning to his home for the first time that we see and after he says "one man's trash is another one's potpourri" while he's entering you can see the shadow of the machine that holds the camera up high behind him and max.

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Revealing: When the Grinch is accepting the Holiday Cheermiester award, Jim Carrey holds up his hand and his palm is facing the camera and you can see the piece of his suit has been slipped over his thumb to make it green and furry.

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Continuity: In the post office scene, when Cindy is talking to her dad, you can see post box marked "Grinch" and it has nothing in it. Later you are shown a close-up of the Grinch mailbox and it has spider webs in it.

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Continuity: In the scene where the Grinch is talking to the town after he flips out during the Whobilation,the mayor in the background switches from facing inward to his assistant to facing outwards.

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Continuity: When the two woman who adopted the Grinch show him a plate of cookies on a santa plate when he was younger, one cookie with red icing on it falls off the plate. In the next shot it's back on again.

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Visible crew/equipment: After the Grinch takes the little car, in one of the shots you can see a stage light behind him.

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Continuity: When Max bites the Grinch in the mail room, and the Grinch starts spinning around, a pile of presents appears under the wall of mail slots between shots.

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Visible crew/equipment: The movie was filmed in a large set to recreate Whoville, but in the mayor's first appearance, if you look in Lou Who's glasses, you can see a stage light from the ceiling above.

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Visible crew/equipment: When the Grinch is building the sled as he is putting the tin sheets on it there is an overview shot where you can see the shadow of the camera.

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