Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

Factual error: During the movie, characters may use lingo that would not be understood easily in the time period of their counterparts. April for instance uses the word "cool" in the modern sense, and nobody questions that, but you could assume that they don't understand every word and infer nonetheless the meaning from the context. Walker however when he's about to fire his cannon uses an idiom "Try this on for size" that was coined in early XX century. (01:19:40)

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Factual error: Raphael tells Yoshi that being a kid, he shouldn't think about war but rather fly "one of those things." He is pointing at kites who have artwork (kabuki-ish makeup with the modern japanese flag) that looks out of place for 1603. (00:56:40)

Sammo

Factual error: The movie feels the need to justify the fact that everyone in 1603 Japan happens to speak English (something most kid movies just gloss over) by explaining that they are trading with Great Britain, and therefore the locals picked up the language. That's real cute, but also blatantly false. Trade with the British empire was rather sparse, mostly with Dutch mediation, and knowledge of the English language was practically nonexistent - here, any peasant and even kids are practically bilingual.

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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