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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) - 52 mistakes

Directed by Rob Marshall, starring Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane, Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

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Deliberate "mistake": When Jack fights the impostor, they are roughly the same height, but when the impostor is revealed to be Angelica, she is suddenly much shorter than him.

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Continuity: The Spaniard extends his arms and throws the chalices away, yet in the close-up they're lying by his tiptoes.

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Factual error: In the courtroom scene, the Judge uses a gavel (the small wooden hammer). These are not, and have never been, used in British courts.

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Continuity: When Jack and Gibbs are coming out of the carriage by the palace, a soldier tosses a little bag with money to the carriage driver. In the next shot, you see the soldier tossing something to the driver again.

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Continuity: When Jack first wakes up on Blackbeard's ship in the hammock, the bone and trinket on his bandana is one way round. In the next shot, when he falls on to the floor, it changes sides.

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Continuity: Jack grabs one of Blackbeard's six guns and shoots it after saying "They ain't loaded". After the explosion, he lowers his head in awe and raises it. A frame later, from a different angle, his head is lowered and he is in the process of raising it again.

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Revealing: When Blackbeard threatens Jack with a pistol, he is heard cocking it, but when he holds it up to the camera we can see that it is only on half-cock. A pistol cannot be fired in the half-cock position, nor can it be loaded in the fired position, implying that either it is not loaded, or a technical error has been made by the film makers.

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Factual error: None of the British army officers is wearing the gorget, which was an officer's insignia at this time.

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Factual error: Barbossa addresses one of his officers as "lieutenant-commander". This rank was not introduced into the Royal Navy until 1914.

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Factual error: Captain Barbossa's ship has a modern Union Jack flying on the stern. The film is set in the reign of George II (1727 - 1760). The flag shown includes the cross of St Patrick, although Ireland did not become part of the United Kingdom until 1801, and the Union Jack at the time of the film would have comprised only the crosses of St George (England) and St Andrew (Scotland).

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Continuity: After Blackbeard shows up for the first time, Angélica is shouting at him. The bangs around her face change between frames.

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Continuity: When the mermaid is resting on the pirates' boat about to sing a song, the amount of hair on her arm swaps from a couple bangs, to a lot, and is either on the shoulder, further down or next to the elbow, between shots.

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Factual error: The soldiers chasing Sparrow in London have red cockades on their hats. They should be wearing Hanoverian black cockades, as George II was the second king of the House of Hanover.

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Continuity: When Captain Jack is chained to the chair in King George's quarters, his first action is to try to snatch a cream puff from a plate on the table. There are two pastries on the plate when he first sees them, but by the time he slides the chair over to the table, the plate suddenly has about half-a-dozen puffs on it.

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Continuity: When Philip asks the mermaid to give him back his life, the position of her hands keeps changing between shots.

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Continuity: While standing on both carriages, Jack's feet are on the edge of the roof. A frame later, from a different angle, the left one is on the middle part of the roof.

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Continuity: Jack is on top of a carriage which makes a right turn and encounters a second carriage, which drives parallel to it. For a brief second, there's an aerial shot of Jack with the guards chasing him and the second carriage disappears, only to reappear a frame later.

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Continuity: During the trial, Jack's hand swaps back and forth between raised in the front shots, to lowered in the back shots.

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Continuity: When the mermaid approaches the pirates' boat after being threatened with a knife, her arm is uncovered in the shot from behind, but covered in hair in the front shot.

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Continuity: Jack strands Angelica on an island and tosses a gun on the floor. The gun swaps from laying on an 11 o'clock direction, to a 1 o'clock between shots.

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