Spy Kids

Continuity mistake: The small screen on the Super Guppy boat/sub which reads, "manual override engaged," "calculating escape solution - dive" and then, "autopilot re-engaged," in close-ups, all reflect Juni's bandaged fingers directly in front of it, though for example, when the autopilot screen appears, Juni is upside down in the previous wide shot. (00:23:15)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: After Uncle Felix turns the dial to the secret chamber behind the bookcase, the position of safe door, books and other items differ in the shots facing the long hallway and the shots facing the bedroom. (00:21:15)

Super Grover

Deliberate mistake: When Ms. Gradenko arrives at the safehouse, she uses a key to get in. This doesn't make any sense because when Carmen and Juni arrive, Carmen has to say her full name to get in; there is no sign of a key hole anywhere. (00:27:30 - 00:36:00)

Continuity mistake: While Juni and Carmen are in the Super Guppy, the top of boat, above the controls, actually differs within the sequence of shots on the water. Their heights differ as well. (00:23:00)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: The arrangement of Carmen's hair repeatedly differs in consecutive shots throughout the film, depending on the angle of the camera. (00:37:10)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When Carmen tells the four Fooglies, "We'll be back for you, fellow agents," she uses her arms to calm the Fooglies, and the band on her right upper arm is much higher up in the second shot. (01:02:15)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: The four Thumb Thumbs fall, after being zapped by Machete's Bubbles, yet in the following shots when Juni and Carmen descend, their bodies lie in completely different positions. (01:02:10)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: At Machete's Spy Shop, when Machete points his finger at Juni, with the World's Smallest Camera, his hair visible on the live video differs from the real Juni's hair. (00:51:15)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: During the wedding of Ingirid and Gregorio, the flowers in Ingrid's hair change, from the time she knocks the head off the ice swan through the following shots. (00:04:35)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: After their parents ascend into the ceiling, Carmen and Juni confront their doppelgangers, who run up the wall, flip over and land in the center of the 'water' outline on the floor. After Carmen exclaims, "Oh shi...take mushrooms!" when they all walk towards the 'water' outline to come face to face in the wide shot, the robots must walk towards the center though they were already there. (01:13:20)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When Carmen and Juni fly towards Floop's castle in the mini spy plane, the position of Carmen's arms around Juni changes over and over again in the side and front consecutive shots. (00:58:15)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: While Machete is asleep, Juni takes the map to Floop's castle and Machete grabs his wrist. As Carmen tries to loosen Machete's grip, in the semi close-up Machete has Juni's bare wrist in his tight grasp, but in the following close-up he holds the entire cuff of Juni's shirt within his fingers. The way Juni holds the map differs in both shots as well. (00:56:05)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When Gregorio and Ingrid land on the table in front of Floop, the items on the table directly in front of the two of them are quite different in the shots facing them and the shots facing Floop. Things on the table change throughout the scene. (00:31:45)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: After Carmen zaps the Thumb Thumb with Machete's Electroshock Gumball, she takes another wrapped one out to show Juni. In the wide shot, the wrapped gumball that she holds does not have a back sticker, yet, in the close-up she turns the gumball over to read, "Long lasting," on the back white sticker with the ingredients. (01:00:20)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When Carmen and Juni change from their uniforms to casual clothes in the store, Carmen is wearing a 3/4 length sleeved red top and a black jacket with matching cropped trousers, which she continues to wear up until they're at Machete's. But later on, when she and Juni ditch their wetsuits at Floop's castle, she's suddenly got a different top on.

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Continuity mistake: When the kids are being chased in the Super Guppy, Carmen's school socks are at different heights in various shots.

Continuity mistake: When Floop shows his clay model of Felix's face to Gregorio and Ingrid, he is wearing a black glove on his right hand. The shot then briefly cuts to Gregorio. When the shot returns to Floop, he is no longer wearing the glove.

Continuity mistake: As Ingrid and Gregorio are being led past the jailed Fooglies, when Ingrid says, "Characters from Floop's TV show," in the close-up the Fooglie with purple hands moves along the bars towards the center. However, in the next wide shot he simply stands back at the left corner holding the bars. (00:26:40)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: Carmen and Juni start to follow the robot children when they try to get to the dungeons undetected. The position of the braids/plaits on the robot girl in front of them changes over and over again in consecutive shots. (01:02:40)

Super Grover

Carmen Cortez: Spy work, that's easy. Keeping a family together, that's difficult. And that's the mission worth fighting for.

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Answer: When he told her that he knew about her still wearing diapers. He did it to get back at her for being so mean to him and they decided to call it even.

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