Best animated movie continuity mistakes of all time

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Looney Tunes: Back in Action picture

Continuity mistake: When Yosemite Sam is chasing everyone through Las Vegas he drives the race car through a souvenir stand. This puts a large dent in the front hood of the car. This dent disappears when the car is shown next.

Greg Weisgerber

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Watership Down picture

Continuity mistake: The rabbits have a close encounter with some rats in a shed on the cemetery. A spade falls over. In the next shot the spade lays in a wheelbarrow.

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Quest for Camelot picture

Continuity mistake: When Garrett is jumping on the bobbing things, we look down on him from above. He has one more thing to jump on before he reaches the other side. Then we see him from a different perspective and he has to jump 5 more.

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Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix picture

Continuity mistake: When Ben and Gwen are fighting off aliens on Incarcecon, right after the tetramand destroys the hoverboard, the Omnitrix is missing from Ben's wrist.

Piemanmoo

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The Great Mouse Detective picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Dr. Dawson and Olivia are seeking Basil's help at his house, Basil sits down and starts playing the violin, holding it in his right hand and having the bow in his left. When Basil the stands up in another shot, he is holding the violin in his left hand (like it's supposed to be) and the bow in his left.

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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within picture

Continuity mistake: Right after Aki saves Gray and turns around to pick up the canister containing the plant off a table there is no table or ledge. If you watch the movie with the commentary one of the members involved with the movie says that it is floating on nothing. (00:16:50)

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Garfield's Pet Force picture Garfield's Pet Force mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Garzooka goes to Garfield's house, he pounds on the door and it appears as big as him. But after he breaks the door open, the doorway is thinner. (00:17:05)

JesseRoxII

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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown picture

Continuity mistake: When Charlie Brown holds the door for Snoopy before the gang leaves to trick or treat, his costume doesn't have all the extra holes in it like it does in the scenes before and after.

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Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation picture Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Before diving down to see the underwater volcano, Dracula, Mavis, Dennis, and Johnny are walking on the deck in their scuba gear. They are walking side by side, but in the next shot they are suddenly single file. (00:36:55)

Quantom X

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Foodfight! picture Foodfight! mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Dex is being interviewed in the park, he is holding the basket of baby kittens that he rescued. He is never shown handing the basket to anybody else, but just seconds later, as everyone leaves and Dan arrives in the scene, the basket of baby kittens has suddenly vanished. (00:04:30)

Casual Person

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Escape from Planet Earth picture

Continuity mistake: Towards the beginning of the movie, Gerry's son spills hot coffee all over Gerry's shirt. He is wearing a white shirt/vest for his uniform. There is no stain or even wetness left behind.

Quantom X

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Hop (2011)

Hop picture

Continuity mistake: When EB is young and is in the factory for the first time, he picks up some sweets off the factory line. The amount of sweets in his hand then changes between shots.

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The Sword in the Stone picture

Continuity mistake: When Arthur is out hunting in the woods, Arthur is lying on a tree branch. In one shot, his pants leg is coloured brown, whereas, in the next shot, it is skin colour (as if he isn't wearing any pants). In the next shot, the brown pants leg has returned.

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Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World picture

Continuity mistake: When Meeko is running to Pocahontas on the ship you see the railing of the ship is not solid behind her, then you see Meeko vomiting over the side of the ship but the railing is now solid. Then when Pocahontas picks up Meeko and turns around the railing behind her has returned to a state that is no longer solid.

Disney-Freak

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Meet the Robinsons picture

Continuity mistake: During the scene where Lewis is first on the roof-top, and Mildred comes up to speak with him, the box he is sitting next to is plain wood on one side, and tallied on the other. When there is a close-up of Lewis' legs and the torn paper, when he's ripping the pages out of his book, the box has stencilled writing that is upside down. (00:06:25 - 00:18:30)

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Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase picture

Continuity mistake: At the end level, when the gang are in the arcade, the phantom virus makes one of the videos games grab Fred. Some of the wires are red, but when the wires curl around Freds legs, they are all green.

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8 Crazy Nights picture

Continuity mistake: When Davey Stone is running away from the police while singing, after he says, "But I'll give this old lady's melon's a squeeze.", he swings around a street pole. The garbage can lid he is riding on has no handle, but when he slides down the hill and jumps over the front of a snow plow, the lid has a handle.

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