Step Brothers

Continuity mistake: When Brennan rubs his nuts on Dale's drums, Dale comes in and starts fighting with him. Brennan doesn't have a chance to put "them" away but in the next shot his zipper is up.

Continuity mistake: When Dale tells Brennan he needs to hear him sing, Brennan has a sword and is swinging it around. After he sings, he gets up and the sword is shown on the floor in its scabbard. They flash to Brennan, then back to Dale and the sword is gone.

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Suggested correction: He places it down before sitting on the bed to sing.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Alice spells words with her food on her dinner plate asking to have sex, the very next view of her shows a smaller plate in front of her.

Continuity mistake: In the scene with the bullies, as the bullies are approaching and one says, "Hey, fag stick," Dale and Brennan are stationary next to a tree. When he says,"Long time no see," they are moving to the same position again.

Continuity mistake: When being attacked in the schoolyard, Dale and Brennan are in a different position relative to the big tree whenever the camera angle changes.

Continuity mistake: When Alice writes that she wants Dale to take her now, she places her wedding ring on her plate. However when she and Dale burst into the room the second time, she is wearing her wedding ring again.

stryker73

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Brennan is showing Dale his sword with Randy Jackson's name on it, his hands switch from having one hand on the hilt to both hands and back when the camera angle cuts to behind Brennan, and back again.

oddy knocky

Continuity mistake: In the step brother's bedroom, while Brennan is singing "Let's give 'em something to talk about" there is a Samurai sword on the floor in one shot. When they cut back to the same shot the sword is gone.

mattkurmas

Continuity mistake: When Dale and Brennan are in the bedroom after their parents just told them that they are selling the house, Dale is sitting on the bed with the mask on. In some of shots, his legs go from being crossed to different positions and sometimes they are flat on the bed. Also, as Brennan sings and Dale is on the side of his bed, his legs change positions.

aajonleet

Continuity mistake: In the first scene of Dale and Brendan climbing on to the gilded lady when it is in the tree, when they're climbing up the ladder and shout "pirate hats!" there's a man visible in the background, but a couple of shots earlier when they walked out of the house there's an overhead shot showing no-one nearby.

bircheyboy

Continuity mistake: When Dale and Brennan first meet at the mixer, a lady with a big blue hat keeps appearing and then disappearing in the background.

Continuity mistake: When Brennan is singing at the Catalina wine mixer, and Dale is on the drum set, you notice that the drum beat is not the same sound. It is offbeat. There are more beats than what Dale is producing.

Factual error: A video is shown of Derek Huff singing "Ice Ice Baby" at a school talent show that took place when his brother Brennan was 17. Robert states his desire to retire in "in two years," in 2010, making the movie's setting 2008. Brennan is 39 in the film, placing the talent show 22 years ago in 1986. The song "Ice Ice Baby", recorded by Vanilla Ice, came out in the summer of 1990.

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Question: During the end credits when they are fighting the school kids, and they do the slow motion kick with the doves/pigeons flying, are they paying tribute to John Woo or Charlie's Angels?

Answer: It was John Woo's trademark long before a Charlie's Angels film was made.

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