Batman Returns

Batman Returns (1992)

170 mistakes - chronological order

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Continuity mistake: When Selina enters her apartment after going back to work, there is no wooden spoon in her sink draining rack, but one appears later when she puts the teddies in the sink. (00:29:00 - 00:29:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Selina arrives back home after being pushed out the window, she presses her answering machine button and brings her arm to her side. In the next shot her hand is on the machine again. (00:29:05)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Selina puts her soft toys into the sink, and begins to push them down into the shredder hole, between shots the positions of the teddies in the sink differ. (00:29:45)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Selina puts her soft toys into the sink, she grabs a wooden spoon and begins to stab a pink teddy down into the shredder. But in a closeup she is now pushing a soft toy monkey into the shredder. (00:29:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Selina puts the pink teddy down the shredder, it begins to spit and churn out stuffing and feathers. However in the next shot of Selina grabbing the frying pan, the shredding of the teddy has mysteriously stopped. (00:30:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Selina is wrecking her apartment, she grabs a frying pan and throws it at a small display case, smashing all the glass and ornaments. Between shots the glass/ornaments on the case shelves differs. (00:30:10)

Hamster

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Continuity mistake: During shots, before the shot of the two cats coming through the window and onto the table, the items on the table (lamp, snowglobe, glowing santa, etc.) change positions. (00:30:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: The positions of the cats on Selina's table changes instantly between shots. They swap places and are suddenly doing different things. (00:30:20)

Hamster

Revealing mistake: In the scene where Selina Kyle starts spray painting the wall and closet, you can see there was a previous line sprayed and then poorly covered with another thin coat of paint. (00:30:25)

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Continuity mistake: As Selina is about to make her cat suit, she grabs a pair of blue handled scissors, yet in the next shot they're pink. (00:31:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Selina is creating her Catwoman suit, the items she tips out from her sewing kit box change formation and position. (00:32:25)

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Continuity mistake: The position of the manhole cover, in relation to the manhole changes and the snow around it clears. (00:32:55)

Hamster

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Suggested correction: There's no shot of the baby's face or body that reveals he's a doll. When he's abducted it's a real baby we see. The clown then does some flips and quick movements where the baby's face or body aren't seen at all. (We "know" he is a doll, of course, but there's no visual proof of it).

Sacha

Revealing mistake: When the clown steals the mayors baby, he does a cartwheel down into the sewers via a manhole. As he falls down the manhole, the "brick" wall of the manhole clearly shakes as the clown jumps down. (00:33:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the penguin is going through the birth certificates in the library, he finds a certificate and begins to write. The name of the baby on the certificate is 'Peter Lindsey' but the penguin writes down 'Matthew Gruen.' (00:36:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Oswald is in The Hall of Records, it is snowing heavily. In the next shot of Batman coming around the corner in his batmobile, it isn't snowing. In all following shots it's snowing heavily again. (00:37:55)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the Penguin goes to visit his parents grave, the umbrella he drops before he walks up to it changes position between shots, alternation from beside / in front of the bush. (00:39:10)

Hamster

Deliberate mistake: When the penguin goes into the cemetery, he bumps a tombstone and it moves. Almost certainly a tribute to legendarily poor director Ed Wood, who Tim Burton later directed a biopic of - this exact thing happened in one of his films. (00:39:15)

Continuity mistake: When the penguin is at his parents grave, as he kneels, between shots the roses he holds change completely. In one shot one of the roses has a leaf on the stem, right under the rosebud. In the next shot the leaf has vanished. (00:39:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Catwoman saves the woman from the alleyman, she has high heels on, but after she says "I am Catwoman. Hear me roar." she starts doing backflips, and clearly has flat black shoes on. (00:41:45)

Hamster

Selina Kyle: Honey, I'm home. Oh, I forgot. I'm not married.

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Trivia: Harvey Dent, who would later become Two Face, was originally going to be in this film instead of Max Schreck. The plan was to have Catwoman turn him into Two Face the same way she ended up killing Schreck, except of course Dent obviously would've survived and become Two Face.

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Question: After she falls, what exactly makes Selyna Kyle go nuts? And what is she trying to do to her apartment?

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Answer: The film keeps it ambiguous. There are two ways to look at it. Scenario A- She literally died and is brought back to life by the alley-cats somehow, adapting some of their traits. Or... Scenario B- The trauma of falling and sustaining a head-injury, along with her paranoia after Schreck tried to kill her, has driven her mad, and she uses her connection with cats to build a new persona. (Which is supported by the fact that all the things she claims "kills" her with each of her "nine lives" wouldn't actually have killed her. Ex. Her one fall is broken by the kitty-litter truck. Max doesn't hit her in any vital organs when he shoots her. Etc.) Her destroying her apartment is her lashing out at all the things she used to hold dear- her vision of a normal life, etc. It's symbolic of her purging the past and embracing the future. (Plus, oftentimes when people throw fits, they'll smash stuff up).

Chosen answer: She just died, and came back to life. The shock drove her mad. She really isn't doing anything but destroying it.

MasterOfAll

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