Best comedy movie continuity mistakes of 2016

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Continuity mistake: When Jane has just found out she had been accepted into the school soccer team it's clear that on the soccer list it shows Jane is 9 years old, but when her moms speaks to her a minute later when Jane starts to worry about getting into college, Amy states that Jane is 12 years old. (00:06:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Max runs in the bathroom to complain about Duke, the bathroom door opens into the bathroom against the tub, but when she pushes Max out of the bathroom the door suddenly is on the other side of the door frame opening outwards into the living room. (00:12:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the car-chasing scene with the Jaguar, the pursuer drive three different cars, In real-life they drive BMW e92 M3 coupes, in game-graphic BMW M4 coupes. And that one which crashes right into the Volvo is a BMW e46 coupe. (00:54:00 - 00:56:40)

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Continuity mistake: A group of people are in the copying room taking turns taking pictures of their butts on the copier. When one of them sits on the glass part of the copier, the glass part breaks. When he gets up, it's not broken.

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Continuity mistake: Shortly after the start of the film, the heroine meets with the Mother Superior of the orphanage that she is staying at, and just behind her is the cockeyed supervisor, M. Luteau. During the scene he disappears abruptly to allow for a pan out of the property, far too fast for him to have merely walked away.

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Continuity mistake: When Chaz leaves the house telling Jesse that she has just 2 weeks to pack, in the close-up when she says "Bye..." her hair is all in front of her shoulders as opposed to the rest of the scene. (00:08:40)

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Continuity mistake: When Michelle gets catapulted onto the wall and begins wailing, her right arm is straight, semi-parallel to her shoulders. Next shot and it is bent, hand up to the level of her face. (00:22:55)

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Continuity mistake: While Eddie performs "Hot Patootie", he's seated on the motorcycle with Columbia for a bit, and when Eddie stands up he's holding the mic in his left hand, but as he walks up the steps it's in his right hand, then next shot when he's facing Frank-N-Furter the mic is in Eddie's left hand, and next shot it's back to his right hand again.

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, the hunter is looking for his dog. The rifle on his shoulder keeps changing position, being upside down or not - which is easy to spot because of the big scope. (00:01:30)

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Continuity mistake: The old man in the hotel lobby pulls the flowers out of the megaphone and calls the protagonist. She lowers the headset to talk to him. The left speaker is all the way across the opposite side of the neck in the first shot, less shifted to that side in close-up. (00:04:00)

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Continuity mistake: Eric Bana is listening to the police radio frequencies at the beginning of the movie. He does it in close-up with his left hand on the money, by his right arm, but in the next shot his position is different, since his hand is holding the right forearm. (00:00:50)

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Continuity mistake: The protagonist is on the couch with his girlfriend in Fresno. He mumbles worried about her dad "knowing"; his hands are joined with different placement (left on top, right on top) between shots. (00:13:15)

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Continuity mistake: The protagonist is fondling his pregnant wife in bed when she pinches his nose. Between the two shots the blanket covers /uncovers the baby bump, and her hair is bunched on the pillow in entirely different ways. (00:01:40)

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Continuity mistake: When Justin Bieber takes out his phone after being shot, the time on the phone is displayed as 1:48AM, but seconds later, when the camera pans down on the phone before the scene ends, the time displayed on the phone is now 1:51AM. Three minutes did not pass during this time.

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Continuity mistake: Conner is back home, but his publicist drags him out and they go to a club, with Conner wearing a ton of makeup. They turn around hearing some loud riff; Sarah Silverman has her glass of wine on the counter in the first shot, held up in the reverse. (01:02:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the 3 wheeled vehicle, Bennie is driving and Conner says "Women do not go for that whole constipated Debbie Downer look." A shot shows Bennie's hair blowing wildly in the wind, then cuts to a view from Conner and suddenly Bennie's hair is straight and still, then cuts again and once again his hair is blowing. (00:39:45)

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Continuity mistake: Mother and son run towards the store window as the Ford Galaxy is burning in the parking lot. At the end of the shot from behind, a woman with a lilac top and long brown hair comes into frame and leans against the vegetable stand. After the cut, with Jamie and the mom by the window, the same woman walks in again. (00:01:30)

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