Night at the Museum

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie, the taxi's windshield is completely clear in the outside shots, but covered in snow in the interior shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Nicky turns the stone, there's a close-up shot where a beam of light reflects on his face and he opens his eyes wide. A frame later, from a different angle, the beam is gone and the eyes are shut. Yet when the angle swaps to the previous close-up, the awe expression and light reappear.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Larry and Nick are talking to Teddy, trapped behind bars by the museum workers, Nicky is either above the iron bars or below, depending on the angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: A shot after Larry is bitten in the nose by Dexter, he drops the instruction manual on the ground in front of the metal bars. However, when Larry gets angry at Dexter a shot later, the instructions appear in Larry's hand. He never bent down to pick them up.

ryderpoints

Continuity mistake: After the caveman jumps out of the window, while Dexter is holding the keys, the key with a rubber protection around is in front of the remaining keys or behind them, depending on angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the T-Rex throws the bone at Larry, a stack of white papers suddenly appears under the yellow notepad by Larry's foot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Before Cecil escapes, amount of snow on the side of the van decreases between the first and second shot, from the Indian and the Roman's POV.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the caveman sees the open window, after he sees the homeless on the street, the amount of foam on his head and its position changes completely.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the T-rex tosses the bone and puts his nose next to Larry's face, Larry swaps from backing away from Rex, to kneeling towards him between one frame and another.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After being given the job, Larry makes a phone call and his watch moves further up his sleeve towards the cuff between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Larry "vanishes" the handkerchief and some is left on his thumb, after he says "vanishing" and holds the palms of his hands outward toward the Huns, we see a shot of the Huns, and we see Larry starting to turn his hands back around. However, a second later, when he says "into thin air", he is still holding the palms of his hands outward toward the Huns like before.

Plot hole: Christopher Columbus speaks Italian while the Huns supposedly speak their native language. Shouldn't Octavius and his Romans speak Latin? (00:34:50)

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Larry: This is so not worth $11.50 an hour.

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Trivia: At the unemployment office, when Larry Daley (played by Ben Stiller) speaks to Debbie he says that he felt a connection with her when he first walked into her office and with a deadpan face she quips back that she did not. Debbie is played by Ben Stiller's real-life mom, actress and comedian, Anne Meara.

Super Grover

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Question: If Cecil, Gus and Reginald knew that the tablet brought the exhibits to life, and could extend their own, then why didn't they steal it from the moment it was brought to the museum in 1952? Why wait after so many years?

Answer: The tablet did not extend life (the guys grew old there, remember), but gave more energy to those affected. As for stealing it earlier, that would not have been possible as they would have been the prime suspects. The best way to do the crime was to pin the rap on somebody new, like Larry, after they had retired.

Scott215

That's a seriously long waiting game.

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