Spider-Man 2

Continuity mistake: During the bank robbery, Aunt May cries "Don't leave me!" and the distance between her head and the bank worker's swaps from close to far between one frame and the next.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Spidey runs out of web and plummets on some metal tubes, he lands with both arms up. A frame later one is up and another by his side.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When aunt May places flowers by her husband's grave a green plant suddenly appears on the left side, between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the bank, when Dr. Ock is throwing bags with coins at Spidey, a bunch of folders on the right appear / disappear randomly depending on the shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the cafe scene, Mary Jane's hair on her left side is stuck under her hat. When the angle changes, it's not.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Dr. Ock punches the yellow cab, the cabs on the left disappear, only to reappear seconds later.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Dr. Ock points at the chip with his finger on his nape, but when the angle changes the finger is away and is approaching the nape again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Dr. Ock flies through the bank window and crashes against a cab, next to a metal cabinet. The cabinet changes positions between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Dr. Ock is thrown out of the bank he breaks a shop window, leaving no glass bits standing out of the frame. A second later there are glass part all around the window.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Spider-Man falls on a puddle and looks at the wall in front. There's a window to his right, barely a metre from the floor, and an emergency staircase on the left. When he starts climbing, the staircase disappears and the window is now 10 metres above the ground, on the left side.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Before Spider-Man saves the kids from being run over, they're running and are inches away from the road. Five seconds later, after several flying scenes, they've moved 5 metres behind and are running towards the road again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Peter crosses the campus, its avenue is almost empty, but in the close-up it's filled with people.

Sacha

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

Sacha

Mr. Ditkovich: If promises were crackers, my daughter would be fat.

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Trivia: In the scene where Peter drops his books on the college grounds and bends down to pick them up, a black bag comes by and smacks Peter in the face. The person carrying the bag is director Sam Raimi.

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Question: What exactly does Aunt May mean when she says, "What do you mean 'we'" after Spider-Man tells her, "We sure showed him"? Is she just being modest?

Answer: She's actually being funny because she thinks that she did all the work, instead of Spider Man.

Allyson

Answer: I later found out it could have been a reference to a Spider-Man comic. In the comic, after he rescues a girl from a bad guy, she says "We sure showed him!" There is a thinking bubble by Spider-Man's head saying "We?" It's like the conversation in the movie but in reverse.

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