When Fat Bastard is gassing the guards at the Ministry of Defense, he seems to be unaffected by the gas despite not wearing any protection. [Such is the case with many people's gas: they seem completely unaffected by it even though it forces everyone else out of the room. Also: it's a joke.] Corrected by Phixius
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) - 41 corrections
Directed by Jay Roach, starring Heather Graham, Michael York, Mike Myers, Mindy Sterling, Rob Lowe, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Verne Troyer, Will Ferrell
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When Fat Bastard is gassing the guards at the Ministry of Defense, he seems to be unaffected by the gas despite not wearing any protection. [Such is the case with many people's gas: they seem completely unaffected by it even though it forces everyone else out of the room. Also: it's a joke.] Corrected by Phixius In the opening scene when Austin discovers that Vanessa is a fembot and she explodes, he picks up her hand. Even though they are married, she is only wearing an engagement ring; no wedding band. [It is not uncommon for a women to wear what looks like an engagement ring instead of a wedding band. My wife does.] When Felicity is in the gas chamber it takes 36 seconds from the time the gas starts flowing until the moment Felicity's heart stops. The second time around (when there are two Austins) they waste so much time with talking that it takes more than 45 seconds until Austin frees Felicity. [Simply explained by the not so simple "chaos theory." Austin changed something subtle by going back, and the gas did not affect Felicity as quickly.] Corrected by Phixius Throughout the film, during the 60s, the cars are shown with white rear number plates. In the UK, the cars had black plates with silver lettering, changing to white at the front and yellow on the back at the beginning of the 70s. [Actually, the newer style plates were in use from the mid 1960s, alongside the old black and silver versions until the early 1970s.] Corrected by Andy Benham Why didn't Mini me die when he was ejected into space? [In real life, of course, he would have. However, this is a movie. There are lots of things in this movie that do not happen (as far as we yet know) in real life, such as time travel. However, the directors still had a need for Mini Me in the next movie - so they shot the movie as they did. And, since they intended it that way, it is not a mistake.] Corrected by Zwn Annwn Felicity's flashback of Basil's saying "remember, by any means necessary" is different to how he actually said it. [Like any flashback how we remember a memory can differ from how it looked or happened.] Corrected by Lummie Some sounds of Mini Me's voice are squeaky. But in the part where they're singing and playing the piano, you hear that Mini Me's voice is deep. [I fail to see how this is a "mistake" since it was planned by the director. The joke is that Mini-me, who never talks in the movie but does "squeak" occasionally, has this one deep voiced line; notice the reaction of Frau and Number Two; how shocked they are. Remember the dramatic difference between what Jim Nabors, of Gomer Pyle fame, sounded like talking (Shazaam) and singing. About the same as Mini-me.] Corrected by Zwn Annwn The actor (Mike McDonald) who finds the penis-shaped ship on radar is the same actor who, in the first one, gets run over by the steamroller. [That is not Michael MacDonald. He appears earlier, as the guy who discovers Dr. Evil while watching Jerry Springer.] When Mini Me is first introduced and is sitting with Dr. Evil stroking Mini Mr. Bigglesworth you can clearly see he hands it to someone barely below the table line instead of all the way to the ground. [He doesn't hand it over to anyone, he just drops the cat under the table.] Corrected by Mortug Dr. Evil has a button pad on his meeting table. It is to get rid of anyone who is sitting in their chair, if they are "bad". When Mini Me is first introduced, he comes to the table. Scott makes fun of him, and Mini Me jumps to hit Scott's button. When you see his hand and the pad, the very bottom name you can see, is "Mini Me". If Dr. Evil did not know about him then why was his name already on there? If someone else put it there, wouldn't Dr. Evil have noticed it? Also, on the same pad, Dr. Evil's name is on there too. If it is for Dr. Evil's use only then why would his own name be on there? [Considering how wealthy doctor Evil is, he could have easily had a new button installed upon Mini-Me's creation. As for his own button, if Austin Powers ever tried to capture him he could self-terminate, or it could lead to an escape hatch.] As Felicity drives Austin away from his pad, you can tell that she is on a green screen because there are parts where she turns the wheel, but the car doesn't turn. [It is obvious this was done on purpose, to mock old-movies with bad blue-screen effects.] When Austin and Ivana Humpalot are playing chess, Austin starts choking on the chess piece. He spits it out and it hits the vase, but you can clearly see that the chess piece that he spit out starts to fall to the ground and then magically flies up to the vase and hits it. [This is partially true, however, there is no footage of the chess-piece "flying up into the vase." You simply see something strike the vase, and it appears to be at a proper angle, so technically, if Austin spat it out hard enough, it would work.] When Austin is fighting Ms Spitz, after the knife has been thrown in her back and before the machine gun fire, you can see she has more than one hole in the back of her dress. If she hadn't been shot yet, where did those holes come from? [She has been shot, as you can hear the gun before she gets picked up. You just can't see those holes exploding onto her back because they occurred off screen a split second earlier.] When the moon base self destructs, there is no debris visible at all where the moon base used to be. [This is impossible to tell, the camera pans up and fades out, so you cannot see where it used to be.] When Dr. Evil is negotiating with the President of the United States in 1969, one of the military officials is the exact same actor, at the same age, who played the general from "International Man of Mystery" (1997) who was in the scene when Austin was unfrozen. [Not an error, merely a coincidental resemblance.]
In the scene where Mini Me is first seen, in the shadow on the screen where he is projected as full size before Number Two says he is 1/8 the size. Mini Me is in a different stance in the shadow projection than when the screen lifts to show him to everyone. [He could have moved while the camera panned down to him. There was at least one second of spare time, which one can easily change position in.] At the end of the photo shoot with Rebecca Romijn (in a cameo) and Ivana Humpalot, Austin tells them to get up. You can see them begin to rise, and the camera cuts to Austin. Then it cuts back to Ivana who is standing up and smoking a cigarette. She could not have gotten up, taken out a cigarette, and lit it in the short time between these shots. [This is deliberately mocking the stereotype of Evil Russian henchwomen in movies, who are always standing tall, looking sexy, holding a cigarette, to attract the protagonist.] When Mustafa falls off the cliff he says, "I think my legs may be broken, let me try to stand up...yes THEY"RE broken" implying that both are broken. Then he continues to say, as if he only tried to stand on one leg before, "Let me try the other one...OW". [Well, you try making sense after falling down a cliff and breaking your legs.] Probably deliberate, but when they are in 1969, all the music you hear is actually from the 1970's. [There is nothing wrong with this. All the music is added for effect. It is not literally playing "In" the movie. And even if it is, Austin may have brought back some records and such with him.] When Austin and Felicity are looking through the binoculars at Dr. Evil's lair, the cord is round Austin's neck and Felicity keeps nearly strangling him. One time she yanks the cord and Austin is clearly pulled down into her lap, but in the next shot he's in between her breasts (when he goes "mummy, mummy"). [Austin goes out of camera, so you cannot see where his head ends up. Neither Felicity's breasts, nor lap, are visible in the shots, so this mistake is not valid, because you just can't tell.]