Best animated movie mistakes of 2001

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Shrek picture

Continuity mistake: Sometimes Shrek's front door opens outwards, at other times inwards, yet it can't be "two-way" because whenever it closes, it slams against the frame. (00:10:55 - 00:13:45)

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Continuity mistake: In the beginning scenes, where Milo Thatch is practising his proposal, he slides over (face forward, chest against the board) a chalk drawing of a map detailing the location of Atlantis. When he realises he wiped off the drawing, and sees it on his clothes, he stands in front of the blank part of the chalkboard, "filling in" the space with the map that rubbed off on his shirt - the only problem is, that the image should have rubbed off backwards as he was facing the board when it transferred to his clothes. He could not simply stand in the place of the missing map face forward and have it read properly.

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Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase picture

Audio problem: On the first level of the video game, after Velma brings up what she remembers what Eric said about the Scooby snacks in the game, you hear Daphne talking but you see Velma's lips moving. (00:01:00)

Aaron Chi Thomas

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Continuity mistake: When Sulley places the menu on the table he puts it face down (logo first), then when he lifts up the table, to quickly get Boo, the menu is face up. (00:26:05)

T1969

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Continuity mistake: Kamaji bangs the work surface, causing a chopstick to fall to the floor, but in a following shot both chopsticks are back in the bowl. (00:23:00)

Hamster

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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius picture

Continuity mistake: Nick's necklace is a string looped through a ring, but sometimes the string makes only one pass through the ring and sometimes two.

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Osmosis Jones picture

Continuity mistake: Look carefully at the brochure Frank has about the Buffalo Chicken Wing festival, the building pictured is the same building as his daughter's school (seen earlier in the movie).

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Suggested correction: While the buildings might look similar, they are different buildings. The school has 3 levels with rectangular windows with a pyramid top while the building in the brochure only has 2 levels of non-rectangular windows and more of a dome shape on top.

Bishop73

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Recess: School's Out picture

Continuity mistake: When TJ jumps in the dumpster at the school to hide from the guys in suits, he sees two guys and another who's dressed up like Principal Prickly in his normal shabby suit, but then a second later when he takes off his Prickly mask he's in a black suit.

mOnKeYmAn33

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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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Metropolis picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Rock is trying to destroy Tima and the factory, the side parting in his hair frequently changes sides.

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Barbie in the Nutcracker picture

Continuity mistake: Although Clara kicks her shoe at the Mouse King's head, when she gets down from the mantelpiece, it is back on her foot with no sign of her having retrieved it.

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Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tibira picture

Continuity mistake: In Session 24, Faye gets into her aircraft and Ed all of a sudden looks down at Faye, from on top of the roof, and starts talking to her. Look at the back of Ed's shirt, it falls up and goes past her neck and rests at her head, when the camera cuts to a front view, the shirt is above the shoulder line. (00:14:20)

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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie picture

Other mistake: When Spike is strolling through the city, at some point he walks by one of those posts pointing to various directions. One of the signs is written in cyrillic characters and, below, we can read the "English" translation: Ruccian Town.

Sereenie

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Other mistake: When showing "In Association with" in the English dub's credits, The Pokémon Company is misspelled as "The Pokeman Company." (01:15:37)

apikachu68

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys picture

Continuity mistake: In the shot of everyone chanting, "disco ball!" Hermey is seen in the background, but two shots later, Hermey has disappeared. (00:19:00)

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The Living Forest picture

Continuity mistake: The arc-shaped garden plant directed the protagonist to someone who can help him. A nasty human armed with shears walks by and starts his torture; he kneels by the plant, in a zone with no shadows, and in the next shot the whole section of ground is in the shade. (00:39:40)

Sammo

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Millennium Actress picture

Continuity mistake: When Chiyoko places the blue book as she is moving books around, a part of the pages of a brown one goes from white to brown and back to white.

apikachu68

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