Factual error: During their transatlantic boat trip, on their way to Athens, the American athletes are having fun naming various foods from back home that they already miss. One of them claims he misses chocolate chip cookies. Oops. That particular cookie didn't exist until Ruth Wakefield invented it in 1930.
Factual error: When the crowd and sheriff are waiting at the GA/TN state line we see a road sign that says GA. Hwy 16. GA. Hwy 16 runs east to west (Tennesee is north of Georgia) and is approximately 150 miles south of the state line. (01:34:45)
Factual error: When Rob Lowe first arrives in Oxford he is driving down a street taking in the sights. Most of the sights he views are actually scattered throughout the town and not on any one street. This is especially true for Radcliffe Camera (part of the Bodlean Library) as it is in a cobblestone courtyard completely surrounded by buildings and cannot be viewed from any street.
Factual error: When the TV store is closing at Bloomingdale's, The Richard Simmons Show is shown on the monitors. In 1984, when the film is set, this show was broadcast only in the morning and was not released in syndication. The show would therefore not have been playing on a television channel in New York City in the late evening.
Factual error: The scene during Lonette Mckee's rendition of Ill Wind, where coins are poured onto a glass table, appear to be from a later time period. (01:16:00)
Factual error: In the scene with Tempest (the video game in the cinema's foyer), Regina is annoyed to find the tag 'DMK' shown in the scoreboard, which she otherwise dominates, and she sets out to remove it. After completing a game which scores higher than 'DMK', she overwrites his name on the scoreboard and her name is both above and below. If this had been a real video game, his score wouldn't have been removed from the list, it would have just dropped down one place. She would have needed to play several games, bettering the 'DMK' score every time in order to own the board again. She would just keep knocking DMK down the list, she could only overwrite the last place.
Factual error: When Andy and Charlie have caught a cab (allegedly in Manhattan), and the agents are running after the car, we see green letters reading "Manor", which is a movie theater in Wilmington, NC. (00:03:19 - 03:26:00)
Factual error: None of the "Colombians" speaks with a Colombian accent or uses Colombian slang.
Factual error: Throughout the entire movie, the SBD Dauntlesses they are working on have the national insignia with the red ball in the center. This was discontinued in May 1942.
Factual error: The tigers used here are Indian Bengal tigers and this is set in Africa. Plus zebras can't be ridden as Sheena's able to do.
Suggested correction: The only striped animals in the movie are zebras, not tigers. A tiger did appear on some of the DVD covers, which is an error on the covers. For a fantasy movie, riding a zebra falls under artistic license. In any case, the zebra Sheena was riding was a small horse with makeup to make it appear to be a zebra.
Factual error: In the scene where the convoy is on the way to the Eldridge, the trucks used are M35 deuce and a half dating from 1949, the jeeps used are M151 mutt dating from 1959 (horizontal grills) . (00:05:55)