Corrected entry: When Napoleon is on a lunch break from his "job," he's eating a sandwich and less than 3 seconds/two shots later he has a glass of the "egg juice." There is no way he would be able to grab a glass, pour the drink, and get back where he was standing that quickly.
Corrected entry: When Napoleon is eating lunch with the farmers, the spoon in the drink changes from standing straight up to laying across the top of the jar.
Correction: I have watched this scene over and over again to make sure; the wooden spoon in the "mystery" drink is never laid across the top of the jar. As a matter of fact, it stays where it should from shot to shot.
Corrected entry: When Summer and Tricia are handing out "Vote for Summer" buttons to students in the school's hallway, there is one notable part where they don't give them out to a couple of nerds walking by. A few moments later, the same shot of the nerds is shown using footage from a different camera.
Correction: One of those two nerds walking by Summer is never seen again, the one with the red backpack. The other nerd is wearing the FFA jacket just like Pedro and Napoleon. A lot of people are wearing them in this scene.
Corrected entry: Watch the lady caught in a headlock during the Rex Kwon Do commercial. Presumably she was already a student when the commercial would have been filmed, yet she appears later as a prospective student at the introductory meeting attended by Kip and Napoleon.
Correction: You can't just assume she was already a student and count it as a mistake. For all we know Rex could have just picked some random lady off the street to do the commercial, and as payment offered her free lessons when the next class started.
Corrected entry: When Napoleon asks Don for one of the "Vote for Summer" buttons in the hallway, Napoleon turns to throw the button and there is a female classmate right next to Napoleon walking in the direction in which he is throwing the pin. As he starts to throw the button down the hall, the female extra is not there. Then, when Napoleon completes the throw, the girl ducks and reacts to Napoleon throwing the pin over her head.
Correction: If you look closely, you can see the girl coming down the stairs.
Corrected entry: When Napoleon begins dancing with Deb at the school dance, there is nothing hanging anywhere near his head. As they talk during their slow dance, they each barely move their feet, standing in pretty much the same spot throughout the whole song. After they have their conversation and continue dancing, the camera zooms out from the couple (just before the scene change) and now there is a large star-shaped decoration right above Napoleon's head. It touches Napoleon's hair a couple of times, even causing him to move his head.
Correction: No, the star is there the whole time.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Lyle (the farmer) is getting ready to shoot the cow, you should see a bus coming down the road because seconds later the bus pulls up.
Correction: You can't see the road when it cuts to the view of Lyle. All you see is bushes and shrubbery in the way.
Corrected entry: After Summer and her friends perform their "skit," the crowd is heard clapping, making whoops and whistling. However when the camera shows the crowd of kids, they are clapping but nobody is whooping or whistling. Several kids are chewing gum and one girl is laughing, the rest have their mouths shut. There are no fingers up to mouths to produce whistling sounds from the crowd.
Correction: The whole audience isn't shown in the camera's view. If you look carefully, you can tell there are more kids off to the sides of the auditorium. They could have been the ones who were whooping and clapping.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Napoleon looks at his watch while going to pick up Trisha for the school dance, it says July 17th; but, Preston High school is on summer break at the time (there wouldn't be a school dance in the middle of summer break.).
Correction: Obviously Preston High School isn't on summer break in the film, as half the scenes (both before and after the dance) take place at school. Many places have year-round school, which would account for them being at school in July.
Corrected entry: Watch the reflection on the picture hanging behind the couch when Uncle Rico is talking to Tricia's Mom. In the lower right hand corner of the glass, a reflection can be seen moving around, possibly from a crew or cast member waiting behind the camera.
Correction: It's actually the shadow of Uncle Rico's head.
Corrected entry: When Uncle Rico and Kip are at Big J's (both times), the position of the straw in Uncle Rico's milkshake moves almost every time the camera changes point of view.
Correction: Uncle Rico could have easily moved the straw or taken a sip, moving the straw.
Corrected entry: When Kip throws the bowling ball at the bowling alley, during his more private meeting with Uncle Rico, it bounces off the gutter blocking railings several times before striking the pins. In the next few shots, the bowling lane is visible behind Kip and Uncle Rico, as they each stand respectively during their conversation, but the gutter blocking railings are gone.
Correction: Bowling alley railing can be automatically raised and lowered for particular bowlers in a match - as such, they could easily appear and disappear over the course of a scene.
Corrected entry: Just after the cow is killed, there's a reaction shot from inside the school bus. The kids are all staring out the windows on the right side of the bus, but they should be looking out the left side where the shooting took place. (00:16:20)
Correction: The camera was in the front of the bus, so the kids would look out the right instead of the left.
Corrected entry: When the kids are riding in the school bus, they pass the farmer as he shoots his cow. If you look closely out the windows of the bus from the inside shot, you'll see that the bus is not moving.
Correction: By the time we get to the shot from inside the bus, the bus has already stopped moving.
Corrected entry: When Pedro goes off the jump with the bike there is a cinder block under it in order to keep it from breaking. When Napoleon goes off the jump and it breaks, there is no cinder block.
Correction: The cinder blocks are there during both jumps. During Napoleon's jump, they are simply stacked on top of one another to make the jump higher, with a steeper slope.
Corrected entry: When Napoleon is calling Pedro's house (and Pedro is the one that picks up the phone) he only dials 6 numbers.
Correction: Napoleon dials one of the numbers twice. So, he pushes six numbers on the phone but one of the numbers is done two times, making it a complete seven-digit phone number.
Corrected entry: When Lyle shoots the cow, Napoleon jumps just before the shot is heard.
Correction: That's because he knows Lyle is going to shoot the cow, a lot of people flinch before a gun shoots, even if they know it's going to happen.
Corrected entry: When Napoleon is asking Don for a "Vote for Summer" button, a group of students is standing behind him close to lockers. When Napoleon throws the button down to hall, the party is suddenly gone.
Correction: This scene takes place between classes, and people are constantly moving throughout the halls. The crowd has sufficient time to have departed while off camera.
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when Pedro is celebrating with his family that he got chosen as president, the cake displays the colors of the Mexican flag, but they made the cake red, white, green instead of green, white, red like it should be.
Correction: Character mistake not movie mistake.
Corrected entry: When Uncle Rico is proposing the deal for the 24 piece set, he takes out the "little extra": a ship that fits neatly into the box. But in the next shot the ship is suddenly bigger than the box and would not have fit in it.
Correction: It is quite plausible that the boat was in the box at an angle, so that it could easily fit inside.
Correction: The scene is like a montage; it's not supposed to be in real time.
Krista