High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) - 53 mistakes

Continuity: At the graduation, during the song High School Musical the staff members are standing on the stage while clapping along, but in the next shot the staff members are no longer on the stage, then they are back on stage.

Continuity: In the scene at the end when the curtain falls, Ryan raises his hands too early.

Continuity: At Riley's Garage, when Troy and Chad are about to rummage through the junk looking for the radiator cap, Troy raises his arms and his boxers are light grey, but next shot when he lifts the truck's hood his boxers are black. It's also noteworthy to mention that during "Boys Are Back," young Troy is wearing patterned boxers, though all other clothing is identical.

Other: At graduation, after Troy is handed the diploma, in the overhead shot the graduates on the left and right stand-up from their seats, then turn and walk towards each other. All their seats simply disappear between shots. Obviously done deliberately for the dance sequence, but a mistake nonetheless.

Continuity: When Tiara is at Sharpay's locker, she holds out the pink shopping bag with her left hand, but next close-up it's in Tiara's right hand.

Continuity: When Coach Bolton confronts Troy about Juliard, and then when Troy is at East High at his locker changing into his Wildcat jersey, he is wearing dark boxers. When Troy is on the stairs singing "Scream", before reaching the cafeteria, his boxers are light blue.

Revealing: After Gabriella and Troy convince everyone to stick with the musical, when Ms. Darbus asks everyone to line up she walks to stage left (viewer's right) and steps behind her white mark, on the otherwise clean stage floor.

Continuity: When Gabriella joins Troy on the roof, she places her bag on the step before she picks Troy's tux. The bag's position changes throughout this scene.

Continuity: When Taylor reads Gabriella's letter from Stanford University, the envelope in her hand is vertical, then horizontal and back to vertical.

Visible crew/equipment: The reflector screen is reflected in Kelsi's eyeglasses, in many shots throughout the film.

Continuity: On the treehouse, when Troy helps Gabriella up during their song, "Chad's" red cape, which is draped to the floor, and Robo Rob are visible behind them on the windowsill. In the next shot as Troy removes his sweatshirt, only a bit of the cape is draped over and the toy has moved farther away from the window's frame. When they turn the corner, we can see that more of the cape is draped on the inside of the treehouse again.

Continuity: Just as Gabriella and Troy walk into Gabriella's backyard, they put their belongings down on the table, with an Adirondack chair beside it and the second Adirondack farther away from the table, mostly out of frame. Next shot, when they sit on the hammock, that second Adirondack which was out of frame has moved forward, so the end of its arm rest is level with the table's corner. When Mrs. Montez comes out it's back to the way it was in the first shot.

Continuity: When Troy surprises Gabriella from behind he pulls her into the treehouse, and as they stand at the center holding hands, behind Gabriella is the brass bell (which is at the doorway they sat in front of earlier) and behind Troy are two model airplanes. In the next two shots as the ceiling opens, though the couple have not moved, now the airplanes are behind Gabriella and the brass bell is behind Troy, but they revert back to their original positions in the final shot inside the treehouse.

Deliberate "mistake": Troy and Chad drive into Riley's Auto Salvage and park the truck beside the trailer office (which Riley steps out of), near a tow truck. During "Boys Are Back", just after the shot with the female silhouette and the line "Save the girl," in the next shot Chad and Troy run past the trailer office, but Troy's truck has vanished. No worries, because the truck is back beside the tow truck after the song.

Continuity: Chad and Troy bring Zeke's dessert to Gabriella and Taylor, with orders to polish off the evidence, when the girls are working on the yearbook. The photos and papers on their desks change between shots.

Continuity: When Troy is focused on the game at the beginning, his hair is soaking wet due to sweat perhaps, but when he is in the locker room during half time, his hair is dry.

Continuity: In the musical number at graduation, Ryan's shirt un-tucks and re-tucks several times during the dancing.

Continuity: After their musical number during the show, when Troy hands Gabrielle the bouquet of roses, the white ribbon is either higher up in the close-ups or lower down in the wideshots.

Continuity: After Kelsi signs everyone up, and they stand around the piano complaining, in the shots facing Gabriella her hands are on the piano to the left and right of the notepad. In the shots facing Kelsi, Gabriella stands to the side of the notepad.

Continuity: When Gabriella and Troy are up in the treehouse, the three flower hair barrettes on Gabriella's right side form a triangle. Depending on the angle of the shot, the 'triangle' of flowers are formed with one flower at the top and two lower, or two flowers at the top with one lower flower.