Hook
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Continuity mistake: When Peter recalls himself alone in the rain with a teddy bear by his side, the bear is sitting upright in the first shot, but resting against the baby with its head skewed in the following angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Jack removes his Hook-styled wig his hair is messy and caked. Then the fight starts and the next time we see him his hair is shorter, cleaner and perfectly brushed.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When a lost boy fires balls at the pirates, they slip and fall on the deck. Angle cuts back to the boy firing and the deck is suddenly spotless and empty, and the same pirates repeat the previous actions.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Pan is about to kill Hook and his daughter grabs his arm and says "Please daddy, let's go home", Pan's arm swaps from bent to straight between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Before the crocodile is about to fall on Hook, he is either lying on a shadowy place or a sunny one, depending on the shot, no continuity at all.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the clock falls on the ground and Hook trips over it, he ends up kneeled, head sunk, and starts to remove his cape. When the angle changes he is now lying down, face up, and removing the cape again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Peter is grabbing the mast trying to touch his kids' fingers, in the wide angle half of his body is stretching out towards them. A frame later, from another angle he is in a different position, totally crouched.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While Wendy shows Peter her Peter Pan book, one can see the tip of her right finger holding the page, but a shot later from a wide angle, her right hand is nowhere to be seen.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Wendy tells Peter about Neverland, the bronze elephant sculpture on the night table swaps from facing left to facing forward between angles.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Wendy tells Peter about Neverland, his fringe swaps from falling over his eyebrow to perfectly brushed by his forehead, between angles.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the kids have been abducted, Wendy tells Peter about Neverland. The pillows behind her swap from wrinkled to perfect between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In London, Liza grabs Jack by his scarf and drags him violently inside. When the angle changes, she is hugging him softly.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the plane, Peter's daughter shows a drawing with the plane burning. Depending on the angle she's either crouched next to the paper or standing away from the paper. This swaps back and forth.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: When Rufio brings the sword down on the rope holding the slingshot, you can hear the intended sound effect, but the rope is not cut. (01:05:20)

Knever

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[Tootles is searching under a cabinet.]
Tootles: Lost, lost, lost.
Peter: Lost what, Tootles?
Tootles: I've lost my marbles.
Peter: [To himself] OK.

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Question: 1. How did Hook travel to London to kidnap Peter's children? 2. How is it Hook can know with certainty who Peter's kids are, but he doesn't know that Peter Banning is supposed to be Peter Pan? Wouldn't he have to have been following or spying on the family for some time know who the kids are in the first place? 3. How is Hook not able to find where the Lost Boys are hiding when Neverland is a single island?

Phaneron

Answer: 1) Though it is never fully explained, the mystical way Peter Pan would come and go from Never land. 2) It was Smee who was doing the spying. When Hook asked Smee, "This can't be my great and worthy foe?" Smee replied, "I have all the information here." He had a file of paper work on Peter. 3) Hook knew where the Lost Boys were, When Peter asked, what happened to the Never Tree. Tinkerbell said, "Hook burned it when you didn't come back." He considered the Lost Boys not worth the effort. It was Peter, he wanted.

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