Continuity mistake: When Paul Blart puts on his Hello Kitty bandaid on his arm in the next shot it has disappeared.
Continuity mistake: After Blart gets spray tanned, his shirt is a mess with the tanning spray. A few shots later, his shirt is white again. Then a few shots later, his shirt has got spray tan on it again.
Continuity mistake: When the bad guys are clearing the mall, the camera follows "Rudolph" as he clears an exit on his skateboard. As he starts to clear the exit a young man with a black jumper with a white top half can be seen on his feet moving away. In the next shot he is sitting down with a bag on a bench and then gets up to leave. (00:39:35)
Continuity mistake: When Paul puts the plaster on, a clean patch appears on his arm that wasn't there before. (01:02:00)
Continuity mistake: When Paul and the guy are fighting next to the air con intakes, the speed that the fan is spinning changes between the close and far shots.
Continuity mistake: When Blart applies the plaster, his sleeve is up. Camera cuts and it's down. (01:02:00)
Continuity mistake: When we see the dog chasing Paul, it is sunny. In the close ups of the dog, there are no shadows from the dog as there were in the previous shots. (00:06:50)
Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, Paul is putting peanut butter on his pie. The amount significantly changes from the point when he puts it on until the final scene. At first, there is a lot of peanut butter, then there is only a little.
Continuity mistake: When Paul hits the glass door of the shop, he gets thrown back and his walkie-talkie from his shoulder falls off. When he stands up again, it's back on. (01:03:10 - 01:04:25)
Continuity mistake: When Paul hides halfway in the air duct, his feet are hanging down when seen in the exterior shots. When seen from inside the duct, his feet are tucked up behind him.
Continuity mistake: In the beginning scene, as Blart passes out, another trainee gets off the rope and starts running. The camera cuts to Blart's face for a second, then back to the trainee starting to run. The trainee should have already been running.
Continuity mistake: The sweat stains on Paul's jumper at the start instantly change. (00:02:15)
Continuity mistake: When Paul leaves the pen full of balls, you can see people in the far left walking. This would not have happened if the building was "secure" as the robbers stated.
Continuity mistake: Blart crashes through a couple of glass doors to get to the birthday cards. There are a bunch of shards of glass in his hair. In the very next shot they're gone.
Continuity mistake: When Paul falls from the ceiling, after everyone else falls, his feet knock over two boxes and everything sort of settles. In the next shot, one of the boxes is back up and his legs are coming down on the boxes again, but nothing is knocked over.
Continuity mistake: When Paul is talking to Veck about pretending to have a gun, his right hand is by his hip. We see him stand up straight and take his hand off his hip. In the next shot, his hand is back on his hip.
Continuity mistake: As Paul Blart enters the tanning salon shirt is damaged with the left shoulder lapel broken, this remains throughout this scene but as Paul leaves the salon his left shoulder lapel has been fixed.
Continuity mistake: When Blart falls from the air conditioning duct, his position changes instantly. (00:50:00)
Continuity mistake: When Paul is chasing the mobility scooter, the trainee has Paul's coffee in his right hand, then in his left hand instantly. (00:11:30)
Answer: As security against having his airplane shot from the sky by law enforcement. Once he was safely in the Caymans, he could release the hostages without fear of being apprehended by the United States law enforcement agencies.
MovieFan612 ★