Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Continuity mistake: When Angelica is about to tell Jack that she loves him, his position alternates back and forth between being perpendicular to her a meter away, to face to face at half a meter distance.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Jack has each foot on a different carriage, the left side driver's whip extends to the right carriage, yet disappears a frame later.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Angelica and Jack are drinking and talking about the past, the hair bang on her forehead swaps between loose and tucked under the bandana.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Jack is rowing the boat towards the island, Angelica's hair falls over her back, with a mere strand falling over her left shoulder. When the angle changes, all of her hair is now over her left shoulder.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: 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.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the mermaid is by the tree, the left part of the shirt's collar keeps changing positions, appearing and disappearing between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Philip carries the mermaid to the tree's root, kneels down and then stands up. When the angle changes he is in the process of standing up again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Philip opens the water tank, the mermaid raises her head reaching for air, and takes her right arm towards the edge of the tank. A frame later the arm is down, under the water.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Jack is on top of the carriage's roof, passes by a group of columns and then by two arched buildings. When the angle changes to a ground level of the carriage, it's still passing by the previous columns.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Blackbeard shows up and hangs Jack upside down, Jack falls on the floor with his hair messed up. As of then, his hairstyle changes between shots despite him not moving.

Sacha

Other mistake: In the mutiny scene where the cook is torched, the distance between the long boat and the Queen Anne's Revenge increases when the cook is only shown paddling away after the QAR turns towards it.

Continuity mistake: During the fight for the chalices, wounded Philip walks towards the mermaid, who is tied around a tree. Her right arm is straight, yet a frame later it's bent.

Sacha

Jack Sparrow: Captain, I wish to report a mutiny. I can name fingers and point names.

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Trivia: Stay until all credits roll. There is a clip with Penelope Cruz you don't want to miss. (02:15:35)

Tricia Webster

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Suggested correction: It's already common knowledge that ALL the Pirate's movies have a bonus scene after the credits. This doesn't count as trivia.

And how do things become "common" knowledge? By being listed somewhere such that people who don't know things can discover them. By your reasoning no trivia should ever be listed anywhere, because everyone should know it all already.

Jon Sandys

Actually, just because something may seem common to your or I, it might not be common knowledge to someone else.

Ssiscool

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Question: At the end of the movie when the mermaid offers to save the religious guy, why does it appear that she is just dragging him underwater to his death?

Answer: The difference this time is that she actually kissed him before pulling him under. Either she breathes for him that way, or there's some magical property to a mermaid's kiss. They mentioned earlier in the film how a mermaid's kiss can save a man from drowning. Also, once the end credits start to flash on the screen (background is under water), about the 4th set, the screen lightens, and you can see two "mermaid" figures/shadows swimming toward the upper right of the screen. This is most likely Philip and Syrena. He became a "mermaid/merman."

Phixius

Answer: The Mermaid said, "I can save you. All you have to do is ask." The man said, "All I ask, is for your forgiveness." That was close enough for the Mermaid.

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