Spider-Man 2

Continuity mistake: When Peter bounces into Professor Connors, the passers-by behind are not continuous between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Peter stops his motorbike by a grocery store, a group of children suddenly appear out of nowhere.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Octopus's house is about to fall on Mary Jane, the box to her left swaps to being on the right side in the front angles.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Mary Jane runs in her wedding dress by a fountain in an empty park. A frame later it's packed with people.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Peter and MJ are in the cafe, before Doc Ock attacks, the same sequence of cars and pedestrians outside the window goes by several times. Pay particular attention when the taxi goes by.

wizard_of_gore

Continuity mistake: During the demonstration of the fusion reaction when Doc Ock is strapping the metal arms to his body, the pins that go in to his spine are shown going in twice from two different angles.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Peter and Aunt May visit Uncle Ben's grave, Peter's hair is blowing in the wind quite violently in the wide shot but is relatively still in the close up.

THGhost

Continuity mistake: During the train fight, Spider-Man is about to be run over by a passing train, and he leans against the windows to avoid it. From the front angle his body is leaning on two separate windows, but from the angle inside it's leaning on a single one.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Dr. Ock is showing his tentacles and says "Let the show begin" and walks by a round platform on his left. When the angle changes he is behind the platform and is walking past it again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Mr. Ditkovich takes a 20$ bill from Peter and his daughter throws a spoon on the burning stove. A frame later the spoon has turned 180ยบ around.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Dr. Ock's machine creates a tritium ball, and projects several light beams towards it. Just a frame later, in the close-up, the pattern of the beams is completely different.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After knowing that Mary Jane is to be married, Spider-Man falls on a puddle, but no water drips from his suit. Seconds later, he falls again and now water does drip.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: As you are listening to the bank guard tell Doctor Octopus, "Put your arms up! All of them!", look at the money cart inside the vault. It goes from just a few items on it at first, to having a multitude of items on it, as well as around it, in later shots of the scene. (00:48:15 - 00:49:05)

RLN

Factual error: Considering the brightness of the fusion process, Dr. Octavius has to wear special goggles to be able to see it. Yet no one else in the room is wearing such goggles or seem hurt by watching the whole process, just as at the end of the movie. When welding something, no one can look at the arc that's created, as it would hurt his eyes and burn his retina; presumably, the fusion process would be brighter and more powerful than that, and so should have some kind of damaging effect on everyone's eyesight (except Spider Man's, maybe).

Sereenie

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Dr. Otto Octavius: I finally got lucky in love when I met Rosie here. She was discussing T.S. Eliot, and I was discussing... I still don't know what she was talking about!

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Trivia: When J. Jonah Jameson is thinking of a name for Octavius, Hoffman shouts out "Dr. Strange" and JJJ says "Already taken." Dr. Strange is another Marvel hero who lives in New York. Director Sam Raimi would later go on to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness after original director Scott Derrickson stepped down.

T Poston

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Answer: While it's never mentioned in the film, the most likely explanation is that Harry, as a rich kid, grew tired of "slumming it" and decided to move back into his mansion.

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