16th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: In her office, when Umbridge adds sugar to her tea, she places the spoon on the saucer. When Harry walks in and she says, "You're going to be doing some lines today," there is a close-up of the tea cup and the spoon is gone. After a brief close-up of Harry, the spoon reappears. (00:36:45)
15th Jul 2007
Audio problem: When Luna and Harry converse, as she posts signs for her 'lost' belongings, in the overhead shot of her dangling sneakers she says, "If not always in the way we expect," but her lips are not moving. (02:01:45)
15th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: After Harry enters the Gryffindor Common Room, when Seamus stands up his white shirt is untucked just a bit at his back. As he stands with his hands at his sides, in the next shot from behind Seamus, now the entire shirttail is untucked. (00:32:10)
15th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: At the Order's headquarters, after the 'bandaged' Mr. Weasley's return and the gifts are handed out and they are toasting Harry, the positions of things on the table differ between shots. (01:08:30 - 01:09:35)
15th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: Dumbledore wears a thin silver strand, with dangling silver balls, tied round his beard, and the position of this strand and height of the silver balls differ in consecutive shots, depending on the camera angle, throughout the film. For example, when Dumbledore stands before the Wizengamut during Harry's hearing. (00:20:30)
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: After the Pearl makes an interesting return to the Locker's shore, Jack walks toward everyone on the beach, leaving a trail in the sand behind him. As Jack speaks to them in one wideshot, his trail in the sand near the long boat disappears (not due to the water).
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: When Will is at Sao Feng's, the rope binding his wrists differs depending on camera angle.
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: During the mass hanging, in the close-up of the boy's fingers fiddling with the coin he has clean hands and long untrimmed nails, but in the wideshot the boy's hands are filthy and his fingernails are bitten short. (00:02:40)
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: The size of Beckett's wig curls change between consecutive shots of different angles, such as when he boards the Dutchman and speaks to Jones.
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: The position of Bootstrap's knife embedded in the deck rail changes, from the time Will slams it into the wood to when Bootstrap removes it.
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: Aboard the Dutchman, when Jones's crew shout, "The Admiral's dead," Norrington's black scabbard lies conspicuously at his right side, but when he stabs Jones the scabbard is gone.
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: After Will escapes the brig aboard the Pearl, as he stands on deck with Jack, the rope wound round the dead soldier lying atop the barrel differs depending on camera angle.
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: On the island with the contaminated water, when Pintel rolls over the dead body in the wideshot, his left hand is under the body's arm gripping the body, but when it cuts to a close-up, Pintel's left hand grips the body's arm.
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: In the Locker, before Governor Swann says, "Elizabeth? Are you dead?" in his close-up Elizabeth is seen in the background crossing the broken rail beside Jack, but two shots later she crosses that part of the rail again as she shouts to her father.
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: At Sao Feng's, when Pintel looks up under the wood planks, in the shots from below the husky fellow's toes are seen perpendicular to the floor boards and its gaps in between; however, in the shots from above, the floor boards run parallel to his toes/feet.
8th Jul 2007
Continuity mistake: At the mass hanging, when the singing begins, in one shot of the people (with the boy) standing at the gallows, the others down below, who wait at the head of the line, are also seen behind them singing. In a following shot, some at the head of the line differ.
18th Jun 2007
Continuity mistake: Elizabeth has a beauty mark above the corner of her right eyebrow which actually disappears in some of her close-ups. For instance, when she is with Norrington and asks, "Know what? Which side you chose?" and later, when he kisses her. Later, in the scene with her son, the beauty mark is gone in one close-up and then just reappears in the next one, as she glances at her son.
18th Jun 2007
Revealing mistake: After the military attack Sao Feng's residence, when Elizabeth is seen fighting amid the melee the black spandex-like shorts are visible under her robe as she kicks up.
18th Jun 2007
Continuity mistake: When Sao Feng is first introduced he has a red scarf tied round his pinky, and the way it is knotted differs between the following shots.
18th Jun 2007
Continuity mistake: When Jack begins to speak to Captain Teague, Teague's left hand is under the guitar frets, but in the shot facing Jack that hand rests atop the guitar, then when Teague says, "It's not just about living forever, Jackie," his left hand is under the frets again.
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