Mac and Me

Continuity mistake: The position of the rags that Eric throws on the road, when escaping from the cops, differs between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When the aliens throw the pyramid of cans, some signs also fall on the floor, yet they disappear in the wide angle.

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Continuity mistake: Eric follows Mac's footsteps and opens the fridge. A bunch of glasses fall on him, none inside the fridge, but when he closes the door there's one in the fridge.

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Continuity mistake: When Eric is playing with the remote control car, there's a toy plane to his left, which keeps changing to a yellow truck and back to a plane all the time.

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Continuity mistake: When Eric's brother is leaning outside of the van to haul his brother, in the close-ups the baddies disappear from behind, only to appear in the next shots.

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Continuity mistake: During the vacuum scene, the hose keeps swapping from being over Eric's shoulder to under his armpit. This takes place in really short time lapses.

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Continuity mistake: During the windshield scene, a brown pickup truck smashes the back of a white car. Half a second later, the pickup is seen crashed against the front of the car, only to change to the initial position when the pile-up occurs.

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Continuity mistake: When Mac is on the windshield, one of the close shots shows that his hand is bent and up, yet on the immediate wide angle it's straight and along the glass.

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Continuity mistake: When Mac's on the windshield and the car is dodging traffic, the co-pilot kid appears and disappears.

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Continuity mistake: At the supermarket, a guard with the gun lifts his cap and places it up and loose, by the forehead, from the opposite angle it's still tucked in.

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Continuity mistake: Chased by the baddies, Eric is seen next to a blue car, but in the immediate close-up that car is many meters away.

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Continuity mistake: When escaping from the baddies down the road in his wheelchair, as seen from behind, Eric's hair colour changes to a much darker one, and he is thinner, revealing it's a stunt or dummy.

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Continuity mistake: Mac is being chased by dogs, among them a black one. From a different angle the black dog is gone, only to appear couple seconds later coming out from a house.

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Continuity mistake: When Eric is looking for her mum by the escalators, there's just her mum and a man and no one around, but half a second later an old man appears behind, and a second after a woman also appears, then she disappears.

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Continuity mistake: When Eric holds Mac against him in McDonald's, before the clown comes, Mac is either resting on his shoulder or bent forward, depending on the angle.

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Continuity mistake: The door of the gas tank from the white car bursts open when the van lands. A second later it is closed.

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Visible crew/equipment: When the MAC's emerge from the NASA craft in the lab, there a shot through the lab glass of the father MAC, with the reflection of a cameraman holding a camera in the glass. (00:08:55)

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More mistakes in Mac and Me

Janet Cruise: It's ruined. It's totally ruined.
Eric Cruise: It wasn't me, mom! It was a little creature! I saw it.
Janet Cruise: The house is totally destroyed.
Eric Cruise: What do you want me to say?
Janet Cruise: I don't want you to say anything.

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Trivia: "MAC" stands for "Mysterious Alien Creature".

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