Lake Placid (1999) - 11 mistakes

Continuity: When Kelly is on the boat with Hank and the soon to be headless deputy, her green vest (life-jacket) is fully unzipped. When we see her immediately after she's been knocked in the water, her jacket is zipped almost all the way up.

Continuity: At the end of the movie, Bridget Fonda's character is trying to get away from the crocodile in the water, which she eventually does, but right after that scene she is on land, and her hair is dry.

Continuity: During the scene where Hector finds himself with the 30 foot crocodile, he blows up a raft and leaps on board his helicopter and takes off to find that the crocodile has bitten down on one of the pontoons. The crocodile clearly bends the pontoon with its teeth. But when the helicopter finally goes airborne, the pontoon is fully intact, only the tarp covering is ripped.

Continuity: After Kelly has finished talking on the mobile phone at the lake she puts the antenna down then in the shot immediately following puts it down again.

Continuity: The Crocodile changes size in between takes and shots. Example: In the scene where Hector is swimming with it, from a top view, it's head is small. When it goes to view from underwater, it's head is bigger than Hector.

Continuity: After Jack shoots the dart at the crocodile trapped in the helicopter, it is visible in the animal's jaw. After the attack by the second crocodile, the dart has gone. A moment later it is back again.

Continuity: When Betty White's character is about to feed the crocodile, the second shot shows the cow with a smaller blindfold than the first one.

Factual error: If indeed a crocodile can/will not attack underwater, then why does the crocodile in this movie do so several times? Whether crocodiles actually *CAN* or *DO* attack underwater in real life is all fine and dandy, but in this movie, with this movie's rules of nature, how come Oliver Platt's character is wrong?

Audio problem: During the open sequence, when the fish and game officer is dragged across the water during the attack, you can hear him screaming, yet you can see the scuba regulator in his mouth.

Continuity: In the opening scene at the beginning of the movie, the Sheriff and Fish & Game diver are going to tag beavers. There is a clear shot of the diver under water at the beaver dam with a white oxygen tank. Shortly after he is attacked, part of his suit surfaces in the water with a black/gray oxygen tank, not white.

Deliberate "mistake": While Hector is in the water with the crocodile, he yells to the female officer to start the helicopter by turning the key. It takes a lot more than just the key to start a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter. Fuel shutoff valve, throttle, key, and the main rotor doesn't start rotating until the throttle on the collective stick is turned to a specific position.