Best animated movie revealing mistakes of all time

Please vote as you browse around to help the best rise to the top.

The Nightmare Before Christmas picture

Revealing mistake: The stick used to make Jack's dog levitate is sometimes visible, for example when Jack is alone on the mountain.

Dr Wilson

More The Nightmare Before Christmas revealing mistakes
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift picture

Revealing mistake: When Scrat removes the giant acorn in Scratlantis the city is immediately flooded. Everyone in the background is blown away by the sudden rush of water. However, both Scrat in the background and Scrat's host (slightly off-camera) in the foreground don't move and don't seem to be affected by extremely strong flow. (01:18:50)

More Ice Age 4: Continental Drift revealing mistakes
The Lion King picture

Revealing mistake: When Nala tells Simba that she is taking her bath, Sarabi (Simba's mother) tells him "And it's time for yours," and picks him up in her mouth. Her head was animated but not the rest of her body (which remains in a sitting position) so her neck appears to stretch a few feet to reach Simba.

More The Lion King revealing mistakes
The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie picture

Revealing mistake: When SpongeBob is telling King Neptune how much of a jerk Mr. Krabs is, when SpongeBob says, "I am 100 percent man," he leans back and you can see his hat is just floating there. (00:22:25)

himan

Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.

Suggested correction: If you mean that it stays on his head, you do realise that they are underwater? It would stay on his head.

Even though they're underwater, everything else stays on the ocean floor level. Therefore, the hat shouldn't stay on Spongebob's head. It should fall off it and hit the floor.

EnderCube

More The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie revealing mistakes
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase picture

Revealing mistake: When the monsters approach The Cyber gang outside the arcade, Cyber Scooby (who wears the red color) is seen in a blue color in one of the shots facing the arcade.

biglee1901

More Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase revealing mistakes

Hop (2011)

Hop picture

Revealing mistake: When E.B. Is drumming along to Dynamite at the "Hoff Knows Talent" audition there is an audible bass drum beat but via several overhead shots you can see that E.B.'s feet do not reach either the bass drum or hi-hat pedals.

More Hop revealing mistakes
Kung Fu Panda 2 picture

Revealing mistake: When Tigress is hatching a plan to escape Gongmen Tower after they have been trapped, she looks out over the wall. But take a close look at the archers: they all move in perfect sync, indicating the same animation models were used for all of them.

Friso94

More Kung Fu Panda 2 revealing mistakes
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron picture

Revealing mistake: After Spirit gets his second wind when the Colonel is attempting to break him, he breaks the girth/cinch strap by catching it on the fence. At one brief point, the pole of the fence actually appears to pass between Spirit and the girth of the saddle.

More Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron revealing mistakes
Cats picture Cats mistake picture

Revealing mistake: The film was rushed to theaters, leaving a few mistakes which Universal fixed. In the original cut, toward the end, Judi Dench's human hand is visible, complete with her wedding ring. This was fixed for the re-release.

manthabeat

More Cats revealing mistakes
Animalympics picture

Revealing mistake: When Bolt Jenkins lands right into the Gekko Flakes commercial, the whole scene shifts for a bit. Obviously, the cells got a bit messed up during layering while making the scene.

More Animalympics revealing mistakes
James and the Giant Peach picture

Revealing mistake: At the end, when the NYC children are rushing toward the peach to scoop out a piece to eat, you can see one little girl running with a piece of peach already in her hand.

More James and the Giant Peach revealing mistakes
The Rescuers Down Under picture

Revealing mistake: When "Krebbs" the koala is discussing with his other friends in the cell. If you look closely, you can notice a blink in the outline in the "Krebbs" nose. It's a clear ink & paint mistake of the blur line.

More The Rescuers Down Under revealing mistakes
The Care Bears Movie picture

Revealing mistake: When Tenderheart Bear confronts Nicholas in the Cave, the light of fire Nicholas has lit casts a shadow of Tenderheart Bear on the wall of the cave. However, when Tenderheart Bear moves his arms, the shadow stays the same.

Hamster

More The Care Bears Movie revealing mistakes
Pinocchio picture

Revealing mistake: When Pinocchio gets in bed with Gepetto and Figaro, Gepetto puts out the light of the candle. If you watch closely, the light goes out a split second early.

More Pinocchio revealing mistakes
How to Train Your Dragon picture

Revealing mistake: In the beginning scene when the dragons are attacking Berk, it shows several sky torch things being raised into the air. As one closest to the camera is rising, a Viking throws a burning stick at it to ignite it. If you watch it closely, you can see the torch starts burning first to the far left, well out of reach of the thrown fire. Even allowing for fumes igniting, the fumes nearest the flame should light first.

Quantom X

More How to Train Your Dragon revealing mistakes
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island picture

Revealing mistake: After Littlefoot and Cera's fight, Cera's dad says that each herd is on its own. This shocks the little dinosaurs and they gasp. Notice in this shot that though the dinosaurs move, their shadows don't. Petrie doesn't even have a shadow.

More The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island revealing mistakes
The Chipmunk Adventure picture

Revealing mistake: When the chipmunks and chippettes and getting ready for the balloon race, Jeanette walks up to Simon and asks him what route to take to Bermuda. Pay attention to Theadore; he's supposed to be in front of Simon handing the chest of dolls to Alvin who is in the hot air balloon. After handing him the chest, he dusts his hands and moves his head a little while doing it. If you look at his head, it seems to cross behind Simon's even though Theadore is supposed to be in front of him. Simon's face may have needed to be seen, but still a mistake.

More The Chipmunk Adventure revealing mistakes
Aladdin picture Aladdin mistake picture

Revealing mistake: When Gazeem is standing in front of the Cave of Wonders, he leaves no footprints in the sand.

More Aladdin revealing mistakes
The Polar Express picture

Revealing mistake: You can see Hero Boy putting the ticket in his pocket after getting it punched the second time, before finding his seat on the return journey. However, the ticket slowly evaporates in the air as he is about to put it into the pocket. His hand thus enters the pocket ticket-less.

More The Polar Express revealing mistakes
Open Season picture

Revealing mistake: Just after Boog breaks the dam and the deer herd is bounding across the dry riverbed, at the moment they realize they are going to be swept downstream by the wall of water, their legs disappear - just left out of the animation cell. Very obvious; no slow-mo needed to see.

Brenda Elzin

More Open Season revealing mistakes

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.