Best family movie revealing mistakes of 2005

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

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire picture

Revealing mistake: Aboard the Hogwarts Express, when Harry stands beside the open window and sends Hedwig off with the letter for Sirius, surely his hair and clothes would be wildly moving about, because of the strong wind from the fast moving train.

More Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire revealing mistakes
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 picture

Revealing mistake: When Tom joins Sarah and Eliot for the kneeboarding, after Sarah apologizes for Tom's interrogation Eliot says, "It's okay, my dad would've done the same thing." Two shots later, as Tom grunts in the water, this shot is flipped - the driver is now on the left and the kids switched sides.

Super Grover

More Cheaper by the Dozen 2 revealing mistakes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory picture

Revealing mistake: When Augustus is leaving the factory, he is wearing a brown colored glove on the hand he gnaws on. You can see the seams in the glove.

More Charlie and the Chocolate Factory revealing mistakes
The Pacifier picture

Revealing mistake: When Shane is fighting the two ninjas, they are armed with expandable batons, which are tubular hardened steel. During the fight sequences you can see the plastic batons bending repeatedly.

Ian Hunt

More The Pacifier revealing mistakes
More The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe revealing mistakes
More Are We There Yet? revealing mistakes
Nanny McPhee picture

Revealing mistake: In the scene where Nanny McPhee seems to suddenly "appear" to Cook, after the children have gotten sick, you can see Nanny stand up from behind the counter, if you watch closely through the red bottle as the camera passes. (00:34:05)

More Nanny McPhee revealing mistakes
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D picture

Revealing mistake: When Lavagirl burns the diary, it goes up in flames. However, if you watch Max and Sharkboy, they look at an unseen object falling to the ground. The unseen object is the diary, taken out in editing. Later, Max looks back at the diary on the ground.

More The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D revealing mistakes
Racing Stripes picture

Revealing mistake: In the scene where Stripes is looking in the water at his reflection, his body and the reflection don't quite match up. You can tell by his movements that his reflection is computer generated. (This is verified by the audio commentary.)

More Racing Stripes revealing mistakes
Sky High picture

Revealing mistake: When Will flies back in through the window and picks up Royal Pain, you can see that the back of Will's jacket is sticking up, which was where the harness was lifting him up. (01:24:05)

Hamster

More Sky High revealing mistakes
Herbie: Fully Loaded picture

Revealing mistake: When Herbie is being pulled from the truck at Crazy Dave's, Herbie goes into reverse and the camera does a closeup shot of one of the rear wheels reversing. If you look carefully, you can see an extra set of small wheels behind the tyre which are obviously propping the car up enough so that the cars proper wheels will only skid and not get any traction.

More Herbie: Fully Loaded revealing mistakes
Twitches picture

Revealing mistake: After Alex steps off the bus at the same corner as Camryn and Beth, some of the same extras keep walking past in quite a few of the following shots. Two examples are the woman wearing a striped top and black skirt, and the man wearing a plaid shirt and tan pants. (00:09:25)

Super Grover

More Twitches revealing mistakes
More Yours, Mine and Ours revealing mistakes
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit picture

Revealing mistake: As Lady Tottington leaves Wallace's home, the ivy between the windows on the left suddenly changes a bit- a portion gets squashed flat (about 2 bricks down and to the left of the house address numbers) as the area gets a bit blurry. The modelers must have not noticed bumping it while working with the doll. (00:57:15)

johnrosa

More Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit revealing mistakes
Life Is Ruff picture

Revealing mistake: When they are playing N64 look at the system, there is no game in it.

More Life Is Ruff revealing mistakes
Rebound picture

Revealing mistake: In the scene when the coach's friend (priest) also played by Martin Lawrence is praying with the team. Every time it shows the back of the coach's head in line with the front of the priest's head it has noticeably less hair than Martin Lawrence and you can tell it is a stand in.

Simpsonholic

More Rebound revealing mistakes
Corpse Bride picture

Revealing mistake: During the song "Remains of the Day", at one point, towards the end of the song, you can see metal wires in Bone-Jangle's wrists, revealing how the stop-motion character was kept together.

More Corpse Bride revealing mistakes
More The Sandlot 2 revealing mistakes
Son of the Mask picture

Revealing mistake: When Loki disguised as the delivery person grabs the baby, he's replaced by an obvious doll, with pale yellowish skin and lighter hair colour.

Sacha

More Son of the Mask revealing mistakes
Zathura picture

Revealing mistake: When Walter, Danny and the astronaut are in the kitchen breaking stuff to burn, the smaller boy tries to smash an old style broom on the table. He tries three times, on his final try the shank breaks in half, revealing where it had been sawn nearly all the way through in nice clean line, with only a splintery piece showing where it really snapped.

Deadlock

More Zathura 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.