Continuity mistake: When the henchmen leave after the fight behind the Wonderland Weather building, Steed notices a map on the ground. It moves by itself between shots, and there's no wind.
Dr Wilson
10th May 2007
The Avengers (1998)
9th May 2007
The Avengers (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Emma Peel and John Steed are fencing in the shop, Emma grabs John's fist at some point. His sleeve moves significantly in the next shot.
14th Jun 2006
The Avengers (1998)
Continuity mistake: When John Steed and the Invisible Man are talking, the man takes a folder and opens it, but doesn't moves the file in it. In the next shot, the file is open.
14th Jun 2006
The Avengers (1998)
Continuity mistake: When the mechanics attacks Steed in the first scene, they push the door open. It is locked when he has finished with them.
14th Jun 2006
The Avengers (1998)
Revealing mistake: When Peel is serving tea to Steed, the sunlight is so strong that you can see through the cups. There's no liquid at all in them.
14th Jun 2006
The Avengers (1998)
Continuity mistake: Right after the fight in the maze, John Steed's umbrella is going to fall on a bush. In the following shot, it lands directly in his hand.
19th Apr 2004
The Avengers (1998)
Other mistake: The shot of Big Ben destroyed by lightning looks strangely like the Big Ben exploding in the film "Mars Attacks" (1996).
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Suggested correction: Whether or not it is the same footage or just similar, it's not a valid mistake as there no continuity or factual errors involved, etc. It's trivia at best, if the two films can be tied together and there's documented reports of someone involved in the films admitting the footage was reused.
15th Sep 2003
The Avengers (1998)
Revealing mistake: Each time a robotic insect explodes in the forest, it stays in the air as if a thread retains them.
15th Sep 2003
The Avengers (1998)
Continuity mistake: When John Steed wake up in Emma Peel's apartment, there are fewer grapes in the bowl when she goes to the piano.
15th Sep 2003
The Avengers (1998)
Factual error: Each time somebody has snowflakes on them, they don't melt.
7th Jul 2003
The Avengers (1998)
Revealing mistake: In his castle, Sir August de Winter has a world globe with Newfoundland mentioned twice.
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