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Anachronisms (1) |
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Continuity (9) |
Miscellaneous (1) |
Plot holes (1) |
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Anachronisms
At one point in the movie, we hear one of the characters announce that it is the 14th century. At a later point, we see fireworks being set off. Fireworks were not used for entertainment until the 16th century.
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Audio/visual unsynchronised
When Aurora is singing in the forest and when the little blue bird "kisses" her on her cheek, we hear her voice start singing a split-second before her mouth moves.
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When the fairies change into peasant clothes, Merryweather does not speak the first half of her line, "And we can use our magic to help us."
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Character error
When Fauna was trying to make the cake herself, she read that she needed two eggs to go into the cake mix, and yet when she used her magic, three were put in.
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Continuity
After King Hubert attacks King Stefan with a fish, he sheaths the fish in his belt. In the next shot of King Hubert, seconds later, the fish has vanished.
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Flora closes the drapes to the tower bedroom Aurora sleeps in, but throughout the rest of the movie, the drapes are open.
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While preparing for Briar Rose's birthday party, the three fairies lock the front door. When Briar Rose returns from picking berries, she opens the door easily.
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The tiara given to Aurora by the three fairies has no jewels, but later on, when Maleficent shows the fallen figure of Aurora to the fairies, the tiara has rubies in it.
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During his revelation of the living palace he has had built for Aurora and Phillip, King Hubert places a bottle of wine at the end of the buffet table behind an elevated bowl of food, but when he and King Stephan proceed to the center to share a laugh, they separate to reveal that the bottle has disappeared from the end of the table to the center.
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During the song "Once Upon A Dream" in the forest, Briar Rose places her shawl and picnic basket on the log. When it goes back to the log, they both disappear.
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Throughout the film Briar Rose's eyes are brown. However when she awakes in the tower her eyes are bright blue. Afterwards they return to brown.
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Flora's eyes change from green to brown and back to green during the movie, and this was not corrected for the DVD or Blu-ray release.
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When Flora and Merryweather are changing each other into blue and pink, respectively, with their wands, they forget to block the chimney. When the crow arrives, he looks down the chimney, out of which pink and blue magical streams are shooting. He gets hit with both, however does not change from his natural black color.
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Miscellaneous
The opening credits has Charles Perrault version of Sleeping Beauty credited as the basis of the film. However, the film is much closer to the Brothers Grimm version of Sleeping Beauty.
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Plot holes
The spinning wheel that put Aurora to sleep was not real, but a shadow of one. Technically, because of that, it shouldn't have activated the curse, due to its false properties.
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Continuity
After Maleficent transforms into the Dragon, we see Prince Phillip charge at her at full speed. When he his knocked off his horse, the horse charges towards Maleficent, and disappears. Seconds later Maleficent destroys the bridge, and somehow the horse is back in the thorn bushes.Share this
