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Step Brothers (2008) - 40 mistakes

starring Adam Scott, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Will Ferrell (add more)

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Visible crew/equipment: At the end of the singing car scene, when the range rover swerves around oncoming traffic, you can see a police officer stopping civilian traffic in the background of the shot.

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Continuity: After arriving to the new house, Brennen is seen in the car as Nancy and Robert talk to the neighbor (Don). Brennen's Arm is seen up holding the handle on the interior of the car near the window then down between each shot.

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Revealing: Brennan buries his brother, Dale. When Dale emerges from the ground you can see a blue material burst out as he emerges.

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Continuity: After Nancy and Robert ban TV for a week, Brennan throws the ice pack he was holding on the ground. The camera then cuts to Robert, and when it cuts back to Brennan again just a few seconds later, he has the ice pack again and does the exact same action as before.

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Continuity: When being attacked in the schoolyard, Dale and Brennan are in a different position relative to the big tree whenever the camera angle changes.

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Continuity: In the dinner scene where Derek is over, he is telling a story to Robert about fishing. During the whole scene if you watch Alice who is sitting beside Derek, her wine glass repeatedly jumps from her hands to back on the table instantly.

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Continuity: When Dale is questioning Brennan as to why he is sweaty, and again when he comes downstairs after examining his drum kit, the remote control Brennan has swaps which hand it is in a few times and his hands keep switching their position too.

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Continuity: When Nancy and Robert find the kitchen in a mess, after Brennan and Dale's sleepwalking episode, the mess on the floor and counter differs between shots.

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Factual error: In the film, the Catalina wine festival supposedly takes place on Catalina Island. Yet in a couple of shots you actually see Catalina Island in the background. That's because they are actually at Trump golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes and the island is 26 miles across the sea.

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Continuity: In the scene of the step brothers' first dinner together, Will Farell can be seen picking up a French fry, but in the next shot he is holding a half eaten chicken nugget.

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Continuity: In the first scene of Dale and Brendan climbing on to the gilded lady when it is in the tree, when they're climbing up the ladder and shout "pirate hats!" there's a man visible in the background, but a couple of shots earlier when they walked out of the house there's an overhead shot showing no-one nearby.

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Visible crew/equipment: After their argument in the car (after Brennan and Dale have shown their presentation), Robert rushes into the house. As the camera moves backwards, you can see a crew member reflected in the mirror on the wall.

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Continuity: When Brennan and Dale are in the tree house and Derek comes up to talk to them, the soda can over Derek's shoulder moves around between shots.

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Continuity: When Brennan and Dale are in the tree house and Brennan's brother comes up, Brennan has a magazine in his hand, and each time the shot changes, he doesn't. It alternates between the two.

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Continuity: Dale and Brennan receive their Chewbacca masks near the end of the movie while they are in their "treehouse boat". But earlier in the movie the two are having a conversation in their room and Dale is wearing the mask already.

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Continuity: When Dale and Brennan first meet at the mixer, a lady with a big blue hat keeps appearing and then disappearing in the background.

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Continuity: At the Catalina Wine Mixer, Brennan Huff's voice breaks the large glass/ice helicopter sculpture. A few moments later, his step father is clapping and the helicopter sculpture is visible behind him.

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Continuity: When Brennan is singing at the Catalina wine mixer, and Dale is on the drum set, you notice that the drum beat is not the same sound. It is offbeat. There are more beats than what Dale is producing.

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Plot hole: At the wine mixer, where Dale is working as a chef , there is a band playing on stage. The drum kit used is the exact same drum kit (chimes and all) as Dale's, as seen in the house. If a band was hired to play they would have certainly brought their own equipment, and there is no way Dale would have brought his personal kit to the event, for somebody else to play. Dale ends up playing this drum kit anyway, when the band walks off and Brennan sings.

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Continuity: When Brennan and Dale first meet and they are standing on the front lawn and they tell each other that they have to be called a certain nickname, when the camera is zoomed back, it shows them really far apart from each other. But when it shows from Brennan's or Dale's point of view, they are closer together.

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