Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

Continuity mistake: Kenshin loses his sword battling with the guards at the beginning of the movie. The sword gets stuck almost horizontally in a tree stump. Then one of the guards grabs it as he rides by with his horse, but the katana is now stuck in the tree at a sharper angle which makes it possible to reach for it and grab it on the fly. (00:02:35)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When the turtles jump over the table, the tablecloth suddenly becomes way shorter between shots. (00:04:01)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the introduction of the turtles, Michaelangelo's bandana goes from the back of the shoulder to the front and then both ends behind the shoulders between shots. (00:04:30)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: We first see Lord Norinaga in a close-up looking at his son's arrival. His helmet is tied under his chin, but when he walks in the helmet's cord is split above and below the chin. (00:07:40)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Walker's henchmen dump on the court Lord Norinaga's sentinels and walk away. They are already shown posing with evil smirks and all that in the next shot while Walker is doing his threatening speech. (00:08:55)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: The pattern of the fabric below the sceptre changes between the first and second shot. (00:09:41 - 00:10:07)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the scroll falls downwards, it is smooth, but from the immediate next angle it's got a big wrinkle. (00:09:54)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Kenshin throws a temper tantrum in a room with several statues. The doors open and a strong wind blows; the position of the scrolls on the table changes between shots; they are first closed by the edge of the table, then unfurl from a position much further behind. (00:10:10)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Leonardo shouts "He's a man!" when Kenshin appears in the Turtles' hideout; he is holding in the foreground with the right hand his book about katanas, but in the next shot it's on the table, under his left hand. (00:11:35)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: April materializes in the same spot as Kenshin; her headset is placed away from the collar of the kimono. She is still in the same position when she spots the priest, but the collar is underneath the headphones now. (00:11:50)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: In the sequence set in present time when the Turtles interact with Kenshin, once he faints seeing the giant Japanese-speaking rat the shopping bags on the table changed position - the blue bag the wind knocked on the floor is back, and the red bag is up and not horizontal. (00:12:00)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: April's walkman is very conveniently prone to play randomly. She puts it down on the floor, but it is, together with the headphones, positioned differently practically at every shot in particular when the guards start bashing it and everything is closer together in close-up than in wider angles. (00:15:30)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Walker witnesses the music playing and the guards wrecking the demonic machine; he constantly has his left hand held up in the air in the close-ups, but in the other angle he shifted that hand to lean against the door. (00:15:45)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When Michelangelo shouts "Woah! Good horsey! Good horsey!" the scepter goes from his left hand to his right between shots. (00:25:35)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When Michelangelo loses consciousness and his helmet, the helmet rolls on the ground above his head, but when the rebels are approaching to pick him up and haul him on the cart the helmet is by his shoulder. (00:26:10)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When the guard tells Norinaga about his honor guards; "They're coming! They're behind the wagon!", Norinaga's hand placement changes between shot and reverse. (00:28:15)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When the turtles go sliding down the ramp down into the sewer, watch the inside of the ramp before Raph comes out and you can tell where they stooped recording and restarted it. The shadows seem to change places. This also happens right before Leo comes out too. (00:34:00)

Continuity mistake: The Turtles are fighting the rebels by the springs. The first time we see Leonardo fight some of them off, his first action is hitting (with the side of the sword, we assume, or he'd slice it) the head of a guy, but the 'hit' is really a miss, since no contact is even remotely made. (00:38:20)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: April screams and squirms to free herself from the arrow that pins her sleeve to the tree. Her hand is in a different position in each shot. (00:38:30)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When Raphael meets Yoshi and talks to him about being a kid and having fun, if you look at Raph's wrists you'll notice that he is not wearing any wrist bands as he usually does as with the rest of the turtles. However, when Raph puts his hand on Yoshi's shoulder there is a close-up of Yoshi's head and shoulders. Look at Raph's wrist in the close-up and you'll see that a wrist band has appeared. When the shot changes back, his wrists are bare again. (00:56:50)

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Question: Does anybody know the name of the music when Kenshin kisses Mitsu? I know it's in several of the movies, but I can't find it.

Paulie Larson

Answer: It might just be incidental music, but it sounds more like a variation of "Yoshi's theme" (an original score for the film), which was meant to sound like traditional Japanese music.

Bishop73

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