Dumbo

Dumbo (2019)

6 mistakes

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Continuity mistake: When Dumbo is born, Medici is taking a bath. The amount of foam on his arm changes between the front and back shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the first minute of the film before the title appears, we see the Medici Brothers Circus train leave Sarasota, Florida and head north into Georgia, touring the southern United States before arriving in Joplin, Missouri (where the first half of the film takes place). Upon arrival, the train's engine itself comes to a full stop directly in front of the Joplin depot. This shot immediately cuts to a frontal shot of the train engine coming to a full stop in open countryside with no sign of the depot or civilization anywhere, except for a fleeting glimpse of a rooftop about a hundred yards in the background.

Charles Austin Miller

Continuity mistake: After Medici gives Holt the prosthetic hand, the way he holds the cardboard box changes in every shot.

Sacha

Other mistake: The titular baby elephant gets his name from the sign on his cot malfunctioning - the "D" in "Our Dear Jumbo" flips over onto the second line, replacing the "J." The problem is that as shot, there's no way for that to happen - either the letter's glued on and should have fallen off entirely, or it's screwed on and became loose, rotating around the bottom screw - in that case the D would be backwards.

Factual error: The silhouette elephant weather-vane is incorrectly made and would never point into the wind because the elephants are too far forward.

Continuity mistake: When Holt's kids run to embrace him at the train station, watch the couple on the right (a man with a rucksack and a woman with a hat) are either standing still or walking away, depending on the shot.

Sacha

Max Medici: Never do anything I tell you, without checking with me first.

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Trivia: The mouse with the uniform is a reference to Timothy mouse from the original film.

oswal13

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