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Matilda (1996) - 41 mistakes

Directed by Danny DeVito, starring Danny DeVito (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

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Continuity: When Ms. Trunchbull throws Amanda Thrip over the fence, her trousers get all dirty. And then in the next scene where Ms. Honey is doing Amanda's hair, her clothes are clean again.

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Continuity: When Matilda makes the chalk write the message on the blackboard, the writing changes. Watch the "Agatha," especially. The handwriting changes and the comma changes length, as well as most of the message changing. Also at the end of the message Matilda "writes" two long lines under it, which cross over. Yet later when Miss Trunchbull flies off the globe you can see there is just one line under the message, not two.

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Continuity: In the scene halfway through where the FBI agents are searching the garage, the door on the camcorder opens twice. Once before he turns around, then once more as he turns around and the tape comes out.

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Deliberate "mistake": When the Trunchbull is drinking from the glass with the newt in it, you can easily see that she doesn't actually drink anything, as the water level stays exactly the same. Logical, as the newt is real, but its still very obvious because she drinks for about 15 seconds.

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Visible crew/equipment: Two wires can be seen attached to Lavender (because light shines on them) as she floats back to the ground after the Trunchbull charged towards her. This is only visible on video, and has been taken out of the DVD, although you can (barely) see the shadow of the equipment letting her down on the wall behind her.

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Continuity: In the mistake when the chandelier falls, yet disappears later, not only does it disappear from the floor - it also reappears on the ceiling.

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Continuity: When Matilda is trying to use her powers, she looks back at a thought when her mom said "I think there's something wrong with that child." You can see Matilda in the backround when in reality, when her mother had said that, she was not.

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Continuity: When Harry puts Million Dollar Sticky on the TV, between shots Zinnia puts her sunglasses on twice.

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Audio problem: At the end, when the Wormwoods are leaving on a permanent vacation, Harry says, "Get in the car Melinda." Matilda corrects him and Harry says, "Whatever," but his mouth does not move.

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Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, you see that the baby Matilda's eyes are brown, yet they change colour to blue when she's in the car. I know that eye colours can change as people get older, but surely not in about half an hour.

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Continuity: Near the end of the film, when Matilda is having tea with Miss Honey, Matildas mum comes to the table and tells her to come with her, and she grabs a plate of cookies, puts them in a bag, and puts the plate on the table. Yet in the next shot the plate has gone.

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Continuity: When Harry puts baby Matilda in the back of the car, in her baby car-seat, in one shot she is wrapped in a pink blanket with blue straps over her, but under the blanket. Yet when the car jerks, the blue strap is suddenly over the blanket.

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Visible crew/equipment: When The Trunchbull lifts her car back to her house and gets frightened by a black cat, a camera is reflected in her car on the left side of the screen for a moment.

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Continuity: When Miss Trunchbull notices that the chocolate box lid isn't on, the lid is on a different angle to when Miss Honey put it on the box.

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Continuity: When Matilda is talking to her mum about her first day of school, and her mum is on the phone, Matilda holds her books against her chest, and between shots (both of her arms are against the books) her arms go from, the left arm being above the right, to vice versa then to back.

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Continuity: When Miss Trunchbull walks out of the school doors, on Matildas first day, the doors close twice. Once in an overhead shot and then again in a close view of the Trunchbull's feet.

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Continuity: In some shots of The Trunchbull swinging Amanda Thrip by her pigtails, Amanda's arms are spread out. In others, they are down by her sides.

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Other: In the beginning of the film in the first close up scene of Matilda's face you can see that the left eye is green while the other one is brown.

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Continuity: At 1:03:33 It seems Matilda's hair is sweaty/wet at first but in the next shot when she and Ms. Honey crawl away from the Trunchbull's house, it's back to normal.

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Continuity: When Trunchbull teaches the class for the first time, the clock above the chalkboard reads 10 minutes to the hour. After approx. four minutes of filming, the clock now reads 10 minutes after the hour. There is no chance that the scene, depicting a single continuous event, would have taken 20 minutes.

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