Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: When Queen Clarisse is getting ready to mattress "fly", we see Asana, Lilly and Princess Mia lined up front to back from the post at the top of the slide to the back which has Mia near the doorway by Queen Clarisse, just as Asana asks, "Is she really going to do this?" Then as Queen Clarisse jumps on mattress, we see a shot of Asana, Lilly and Princess Mia lined up across the view, with Asana on the stairs and probably down a step, Lilly mostly behind the balloons and Princess Mia between post and the Queen, almost where Asana was before. After the Queen successfully reaches the bottom standing, the trio are back to their previous position, cheering the Queen.

Sheri Hartman

21st Aug 2006

National Treasure (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Ben and Riley go down the smuggler's hold in Charlotte, Riley's bag gets set on fire, the flap side. But in any of the following shots where we see his bag, it is not burnt.

Sheri Hartman

21st Aug 2006

National Treasure (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Riley and Abigail are running through the tunnel, trying to get away from Shaw and Viktor, we see Riley running into people and getting knocked around and held up. We see a lady in a red suit go by and then there are two men in suits, the one closest to the camera has a medium brown suit on, over the collar salt and pepper hair and glasses whilst the man farthest from the camera has a medium gray/blue suit on and very short brown hair. The next shot shows Riley trying to go between these two men only now, the one nearest the camera has a very dark charcoal suit on, short white hair and no glasses whilst the other man is wearing a black suit, has greyish brown hair and is much older than before.

Sheri Hartman

21st Aug 2006

National Treasure (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Sadusky has Ben handcuffed across the desk from him, there is nothing on the desk directly between Sadusky and Ben except Sadusky's coffee mug, a gray thing that is about mid-way between Ben and Sadusky, and a white spiral notebook to the right of the coffee mug. Then Ben says, "Ian still ended up with the Declaration of Independence," and as the shot switches from Ben to Sadusky saying, "Because of you," we see the glasses Ben found at Independence Hall appear on the desk in front of Sadusky between the gray thing and himself. Then as Sadusky says, "Someone's got to go to prison, Ben," and Ben says, "Yeah," two short stacks of papers appear on the desk in front of Sadusky and the glasses changes position as well.

Sheri Hartman

21st Aug 2006

National Treasure (2004)

Continuity mistake: When we see Ian's men pull up over the grate that they are going to go down through to get to the National Archive, we see the street wet so it had to have rained, been hosed down, etc. But when one of Ian's men drops a large bag down, it whirls up a huge cloud of dust when it lands. This shouldn't have happened because there was nothing over the tunnel but a grate and some water would have gone down the tunnel, wetting the dust.

Sheri Hartman

21st Aug 2006

National Treasure (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Abigail runs down the aisle trying to find a hiding place from Shaw and Viktor, she jumps over a small space between some meat display coolers. In that shot the "butcher lady" can be seen behind a large roll of brown paper to the right of the scene. To the left of the space, behind a roll of white paper, is a second butcher. This second butcher is right next to where Abigail lands and is sitting when the first butcher lady says: "If you're not a steak, you don't belong here." But there is no one near Abigail when the camera show her sitting there, talking to the butcher lady.

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: During the parade scene, there is a man with a full beard/moustache (sort of a reddish brown) with a black hat, white shirt and black jacket that I believe we first see handing Genovian flags to Charlotte before she tries to get Viscount Mabrey to wave one. This man then goes to stand behind the head of the black man sitting next to Viscount Mabrey. Next, after the parade starts, we see Elsie and Miss Genovia at a table and right above and a little to the left of Elsie's head we the same bearded man. We see some parade shots and then another shot of Elsie with the bearded. Then we see Carolina shots and the parade being stopped. The next shot is of Andrew, Nicholas and Viscount Mabrey and just above and a little to the left of Mabrey's head is our bearded man. Then Elsie ends her commentary with the bearded man's chest and flag in visible in the background. Unless he is a twin like our palace guard, he certainly gets around very fast.

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: After Princess Mia says, "That's enough flaming ones for now", Brigitte and Brigitta nearly get hit by another arrow. Then when Nicholas shows up, they are holding fire extinguishers, even though Princess Mia are using regular arrows and has said no more flaming ones.

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: When Princess Mia is being crowned Queen, we see Charlotte at the top of the left set of stairs, the ones Queen Clarisse just descended. We see Charlotte's legs at the top of the stairs until they go out of frame as Mia turns around to stand in front of throne. The next shot is of Nicholas and CHARLOTTE. Wow, how did she get down there so fast?

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: When Princess Mia stops the parade and goes over to talk to Carolina, we see Carolina's hair from a back, side view and it is pretty messy. Then we see a front shot and her hair is very neatly tucked behind her ear with her braid hanging neatly by itself. Then we see a quick back shot as Princess Mia asks the boys' names that are messing with Carolina and we can't see her ear but the hair over it is very messy. Back to a front shot and it is neat again until Carolina tells Princess Mia that the boys were tugging on her braid and she demonstrates by pulling on her braid. (00:55:40)

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: After Nicholas has kissed Princess Mia in front of the fountain, we can see the front of his hair is messed up, probably from the brim of her hat. As they walk around the fountain, his hair is still messed up. As the scene angle changes as Nicholas says, "Maybe I am," his hair is now fixed and not messed up as in previous shots.

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: After Princess Mia and Nicholas fall into the fountain, we see Nicholas come up out of the water and he is just a little to the right of the statue and his tie is not over his shoulder. The scene switches to Princess Mia's head emerging from the water. When she looks over toward Nicholas, the shot shows him now way over to the right and his tie is now over his shoulder.

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: When Princess Mia is being "scolded" by Queen Clarisse in the Queen's suite, Princess Mia is reclining on a pillow the same color as the sofa and another pillow that is white/cream with fringe. The white pillow with fringe is partially up on the other, darker sofa pillow. Then we see a couple of shots of Princess Mia talking to her grandmother and the white, fringed pillow is flat down on the sofa under Princess Mia, not on the other darker, sofa pillow. After Princess Mia leaves, we see a shot of the sofa and the white, fringed pillow is now back up, partially on the darker pillow of the sofa.

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: When Princess Mia is climbing down "vine" to meet Nicholas, we see SG Lionel and SG Shades playing chess with a monitor showing video feeds from security cameras. The one that shows Princess Mia has her higher than the window she is supposed to be climbing out of (there isn't one higher), the window isn't open like it showed in previous shots and she has on a huge white garment of some type that is past her feet (Princess Mia's sweater is gray and comes to her knees). Obviously, the picture we see on the security guards' monitor is not the same one that Princess Mia is shown to have climbed out.

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: As Princess Mia is coming down the aisle of the church, she starts to hesitate about three rows from the back. As we see her from the front of the church, she is very near the back when she stops to address everyone. But as she hands her bridal bouquet to the gentleman, he is close to halfway down the aisle and we can see a woman in a pink hat next to (behind) him and a woman in a lavender hat right behind her (who is then right behind the bridal bouquet man). Behind them, down the aisle towards the back, is a woman in a blue hat and farther back is a woman in a pink hat. But the next shot is a long shot from the front and the man holding the bridal bouquet is very near the back and there are not enough rows to hold the women in all the different colored hats.

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: When Princess Mia goes to hold her baby brother Trevor, her mom has him wrapped up with the covers over his head; we can't see his head. When Princess Mia takes him from her mother his head is still covered. But in the next shot, as she turns around toward the camera, his head is uncovered and has a white knit cap on it. But then after they take a few steps and her mother talks to her, his head is covered back up.

Sheri Hartman

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Princess Mia and Nicholas duck into a closet to finish discussing the "lie-dance," we see Nicholas reach across to turn off the closet light. As he touches the light switch, we see he has a wristwatch on. But the very next shot is a close-up of him actually twisting the switch, and either he has no watch on or it is now under the sleeve. (00:33:50)

Sheri Hartman

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Princess Mia and Andrew are at the seashore, we see Andrew with two cameras; one around his neck and the second across one shoulder. When they are running after Princess Mia's scarf, we still see the cameras. But when they are flat down on the sand and Andrew wraps the now recovered scarf back around Princess Mia's neck, Andrew has no cameras. (00:27:05)

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: When Princess Mia is seeing her suite for the first time, we see her "closet" and in the middle is a red/orange tufted ottoman that has nothing on it. There is a second shot of the ottoman and there is nothing on it. But then we see Fat Louie on the ottoman pressing a second remote to open/close drawers.

Sheri Hartman

Continuity mistake: During the parade, Joe in seen riding on the back of the carriage that Queen Clarisse and Princess Mia are riding in. When Princess Mia stops the carriage, Joe gets off the back and is down on the street. We see several shots of Joe down on the pavement watching Princess Mia as she is talking to the orphans. As Princess Mia is telling them how to be a princess, you can see Joe in the background and he is up on the back of the carriage again. As the drum roll is announced, we see Joe get back up on the carriage, again.

Sheri Hartman

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.