Bug Bites: An Ant's Life

Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)

23 mistakes - chronological order

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Revealing mistake: When Sal is eating on the leaf, the caterpillar next to him can be seen eating, but there is nothing in its mouth. He just appears to be mining the actions of eating. (00:00:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Sal is first seen on the leaf, he is shown eating part of a plant. A wobbling sound is then heard, and when it cuts back to Sal, the plant he was eating has disappeared. (00:00:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Thang, Rose and Didi walk up to Sal, the wide shot shows Thang and Sal to be mere inches apart when Thang stops walking. It then cuts to a close-up shot of Thang, where there is a gap to her left, and Sal is not visible in frame, even though they were right next to each other in the wide shot. (00:02:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Thang, Rose and Didi are talking with Josephine about building an ant farm not long after they first meet, the three are standing side by side. Rose is standing on the right, Didi is beside Rose to her left and Thang is standing beside Didi. At the end of the discussion, the four begin to leave the area with Rose leading the way. However, Thang and Didi have switched positions. Thang is behind Rose and Didi is behind Rose. (00:04:00 - 00:04:40)

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Revealing mistake: Just after agreeing to help Josephine with her ant farm, Didi mentions using Queen Michelle's old nest. It cuts to Josephine, where she says "Hmm", then cuts back to Didi where she says it was abandoned last Friday. It then cuts back to Josephine saying "Hmm" again. The two shots of Josephine are the exact same shot, though the second is reversed. This is noticeable as Josephine's movements and the movements of the plants appear the same, but reversed when shown the second time. (00:04:30)

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Continuity mistake: After the two geckos have lost track of Sal, the scene cuts to a wide shot of the four ants walking. Didi is at the front, Thang is behind, followed by Rose, followed by Josephine. Josephine then begins to walk around, and Thang and Rose have suddenly switched places. (00:06:50)

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Continuity mistake: When the four ants begin walking into the tunnel, Didi is standing ahead of the other three at the front. When it cuts to them inside the tunnel, Thang and Rose are now suddenly ahead of Didi. (00:07:15)

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Revealing mistake: When Sal is eating the leaf, nothing is ever shown breaking off it or going into his mouth. It just appears to remain intact whilst eating it. (00:08:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Thang and Rose approach Sal after searching the tunnels, the wide shot shows a large purple mushroom behind him to his left. Later on in the scene, after Gigi leaves, Thang tells him he's gotta be more careful, and it has disappeared. (00:08:25 - 00:09:25)

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Revealing mistake: When the geckos are threatening Gigi, there is a shot of the blue gecko walking around her. Two shots after this happens, the exact same shot is repeated a second time. (00:11:50)

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Revealing mistake: At the end of the scene where Josephine is thanking Thang, Rose and Didi for helping her, Josephine says it's all going according to plan and then it transitions to the next scene. Just after she finishes the line, the animation stops before it transitions. This is noticeable as Josephine freezes on the spot. (00:13:40)

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Revealing mistake: When Thang discovers Josephine's plan, she gasps. The exact same audio for her gasping is repeated on three different occasions in the scene. (00:15:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Josephine is explaining her plan to her newborns, she stabs through a seed using her antenna. She then throws the seed, but the seed is completely intact. (00:15:25)

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Revealing mistake: When the geckos are chasing butterfly Sal, there is a shot of Sal flying, followed by the blue gecko running towards him, followed by the green gecko running behind the blue gecko. Around two and half minutes later, the exact same shot has been repeated. (00:17:35 - 00:20:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Sal is being chased by the geckos, in one shot, the two geckos are chasing him with one behind the other. It then cuts to another shot, where the second gecko has suddenly disappeared. (00:20:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Sal lands on the spider's web, his position on the web changes between the shot where he first lands on it and the shot just after the spider notices him. (00:20:15)

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Revealing mistake: When the geckos are eating Josephine's children, there is a shot where three ants are shown walking one behind the other directly into the path of the blue gecko and being eaten. A couple seconds later, just before Josephine says "Turn around", the same shot of the three ants walking one behind the other into the blue gecko's path is repeated. However, this time the shot cuts after the first ant is eaten, but is repeated again two shots later where the two other ants are eaten. (00:22:30)

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Continuity mistake: When the geckos notice Thang, Rose, Didi and Sal attempting to sneak past them, the four are standing directly in front of the geckos. The geckos then begin to approach the four and there is suddenly a large distance in between them. (00:22:55)

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Continuity mistake: When the blue gecko says "Say goodbye to the trickster butterfly", Sal replies saying he is not a butterfly. Didi is seen standing behind Sal when he is saying this. It then cuts to a different shot, where Didi and Sal are now side by side. (00:23:00)

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