Continuity mistake: When Eric following the wet footprints outside, to the edge of the lawn, the footprints change in appearance drastically, between shots. (00:23:15)
Hamster
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Eric first talks to Debbie, as she stands on the balcony, the position of the bracelets on Debbie's right wrist keeps changing. (00:23:35)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: After the delivery guy puts Eric's TV down, it changes position in the following shot, and so do the cables on top of it. (00:20:30)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: After offering MAC the drinks of water, Eric pulls the drink away from him twice. (01:08:05)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Revealing mistake: A wire can briefly be seen on MAC, as he does the flips in the air, in McDonalds, in the teddy suit. (01:02:55)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Revealing mistake: When Eric is riding through the hills and fields away from the cops, with MAC in his lap, ramps can be seen to help him with maneuvering his wheelchair easily. (01:04:15)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When we see the two holes drilled through the wall, by MAC, there is nothing above the holes being made, yet in all the following shots a large painting is above the holes. (00:29:10)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When MAC is blown by the helicopter, he lands on a man's windshield, and the man has to start dodging traffic. Between shots the traffic he is dodging changes. (00:10:45)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Eric and Mike find the newspaper clippings and papers left on the table by MAC, to try and tell them about where he came from, the papers' positions change between shots. (00:47:35)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Revealing mistake: When the man's car swerves out of control after MAC lands on his windshield, a pile-up occurs. In this scene, it can be seen that the drivers are either absent, or dummies. (00:11:00)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Audio problem: In McDonalds, when the cops come in after MAC, Mike is getting pushed by them, as they try to pass, and he shouts "What's he done wrong." yet his mouth clearly says otherwise. (01:04:00)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Mike is getting ready to pick up Eric and haul him into the van as they flee from the cops, in exterior shots Debbie is leaning out of the window, but in interior shots of the van, she is sitting inside, and the van window is closed as well. (01:07:20)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Debbie's mum stops the car, as MAC speeds past them on a remote control car, she parks on the right side of the road. In the next shot her car is on the left, then back on the right. (00:51:00)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Eric and Debbie are looking out the window at the cops, Eric is lightly pushing down on the blinds. He is pushing the blinds down in the center of the window. In the next shot he is pushing the blinds down much harder at the bottom of the window. (00:55:00)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Debbie is putting Mac, who is hidden in a teddy suit, into the back of her mum's car, as her and Eric leave to go to Brittany's birthday party, the car window changes from halfway rolled up, to fully rolled up between shots. (00:57:55)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Eric wheels himself outside in his wheelchair, to follow the footprints, as he exits the double doors, he goes down a ramp. Later, when his brother walks through the doors, the ramp has vanished. (00:23:10 - 00:24:10)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: In the desert, after MAC communicates, he stands and points, and then Eric, Debbie and the others drive him away. However, in the shot where he stands and points, the outline of the puppeteers hand through the red shirt is very visible. It is also visible at other points as well. (01:13:15)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: When the MAC's emerge from the NASA craft in the lab, there a shot through the lab glass of the father MAC, with the reflection of a cameraman holding a camera in the glass. (00:08:55)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning, when the NASA spacecraft lands on the MAC planet, there are three silver antenne around the side of the craft which are absent in some shots. (00:02:15)
3rd May 2006
Mac and Me (1988)
Revealing mistake: After Debbie and Eric have captured MAC in the vacuum, it goes out of control, causing Debbie to get flung around the room. The track that goes up the wall, across the ceiling, down the other wall and across the floor is visible for this stunt. (00:42:20)
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