Continuity mistake: When Eric washes up on the beach, he is either laying on a very small and narrow beach, or in a vast wide area, depending on the shot. This keeps changing back and forth.
Sacha
20th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
20th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Sebastian escapes from the dip, the sauce has a white colour. When he throws the bowl over Louis' head it's changed to brown colour.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: After the shipwreck, when Ariel sings, moss suddenly appears on the rock right below her hands.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Grimsby walks Eric away from the beach, and Ariel sings, the rock where she stands changes from a slim pointy rock, to a squared bulky block between shots.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: Eric's ship sails swap from plain to striped when the storm breaks.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the storm breaks, in the wide angle showing how a lightning lights the side of the ship, Ariel and Scuttle have disappeared, only to reappear in the following close-up.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: On the boat, Eric steps by the window where Ariel is peeping, yet when the angle changes he is several meters to the left, where the rope ladder is.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: While human-Ariel is showing her dress, Eric's dog comes running, Flounder panics and dives in. Thing is, the scenery keeps changing in every single angle.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ariel takes Flounder out of the porthole, a broken log forming a big crack suddenly appears above him.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Eric's dog comes running on the beach and scares Ariel, Flounder, Scuttle, and Sebastian, all the stuff around them (logs, barrels, iron parts) disappears.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Scuttle examines the fork, Ariel's bag suddenly disappears, only to reappear when he blows the pipe.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Flounder gets trapped in the porthole, from the angle outside there are two wooden beams 20 cm away from each side. From inside the ship, the distance has increased to a meter.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the film starts, Ariel sets eyes on a sunken ship with a basement access on the deck, and a broken and skewed door on it. When she swims towards the boat, basement and door are gone.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: The mast onto which Ariel rests when the film starts, shrinks to a third of its size in the close-ups, plus a rope suddenly appears in front of it.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When we first meet Ariel, she is grabbing a mast and resting on the far right side of it. When the angle changes she's on the far left.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: When we first meet Max, his front paws swap from white in the front angle, to grey in the angle shot from behind.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: During the Sebastian and Louis scene in the kitchen, all the stuff on the tables around keeps changing (appearing, disappearing, reappearing) between shots, with no logic whatsoever.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: In the chef's kitchen, there's a big recipe book. Its page marker changes styles when Louis is about to chop the fish.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: A brown pear appears in the fruit bowl on the dinner table.
16th Apr 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Continuity mistake: During dinner, the fork that Ariel is about to grab swaps from having a round bottom part, to crafted petals.
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