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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The aerial on Boba Fett's helmet swaps sides numerous times (flipped shots).
  
  
• Continuity: When Leia releases Han from the frozen carbonite, he falls forward to the ground, soiling his shirt and face. In the next shot he is clean. Fixed on DVD.
  
  
• Continuity: Han Solo falls off the skiff feet first in one shot, but head first in the next.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Luke kills the Rancor and Han is brought out, Han asks where Leia is, and an off-screen voice says, "I'm here." but it is not Leia's own voice. In fact, her lips aren't even moving. There isn't even any indication that she is speaking. It sounds as if it was dubbed in by another actress in another audio level afterward.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Matte lines are visible around the Executor as it collides with the Death Star.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Just before Luke is brought before the Emperor, octagonal matte lines are visible around the Death Star. Noticable both in old and a new version.
  
  
• Continuity: When riding on the skiff, after Luke tells Han he used to live there, Han turns to Luke when he says, "You're going to die here, you know. Convenient." But in the very next shot he is facing away from Luke.
  
  
• Continuity: After Leia tells Han that Luke is her brother and kisses him, she removes her hand twice from Han's neck. Also in the next shot, when Han kisses Leia back, his hand disappears from Leia's face.
  
  
• Continuity: In Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Han's shirt as he's being frozen is single-breasted, but when he's unfrozen, it's now double-breasted.
  
  
• Continuity: Lando can be seen wearing black gloves only when shown in close-up hanging onto the skiff over the Sarlacc pit.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chewie is presented to Jabba in Jabba's palace, C-3PO has slime from Jabba on his chest, face and shoulder in one shot and is perfectly clean in the next. (Slime still on C-3PO on Special Edition version.)
  
  
• Continuity: Lando's rank insignia swaps sides just before Han departs for the mission on the Forest Moon of Endor.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the shield generator explodes, a piece of shrapnel can be seen exiting the left side of the screen and then reentering because it bounces of the inside of the building the miniature was housed in.
  
  
• Continuity: When Luke leaps from one skiff to another, the long shot showing him making the jump shows the 'stunt saber' used. The saber is maybe 1/3 as long as the regular one, and the blade is not even glowing.
  
  
• Continuity: When Luke is explaining to C-3PO about the "magic", R2-D2 is (not) tied up. [Letterboxed version only]
  
  
• Continuity: As C-3PO is trying to get his friends untied, Chewbacca pokes his head onto the set before he is cut loose. (Letterboxed version only?)
  
  
• Continuity: In the rebel hangar, Lando's shoulder holster strap switches sides twice.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: There is one point in the climactic battle scene where a TIE fighter magically appears in the middle of the Falcon. This was fixed in the Special Edition. The old way of adding ships to a scene involved "cutouts." The cutouts of the TIE's can still be seen in older versions of EP VI.
  
  
• Continuity: Three disappearing TIE fighters flying past the Death Star after the battle on Endor's moon.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Right after Lando says, "Fighters coming in," at the beginning of the space battle, you can literally see TIE fighters in the background appearing out nowhere.
  
  
• Continuity: Han's hair is shorter when he is released from the carbonite than when he was frozen.
  
  
• Continuity: When Luke cuts Boba Fett's pistol by lightsaber, a muzzle begins to separate before the lightsabre touches it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Luke cuts a handrail with his lightsaber, we can see the small bump hiding the pyro charge.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Han is approaching Endor, he tells Chewie to "fly casual". The words are heard before he starts speaking.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the speeder-bike chase sequence, several shots are flipped so that Luke's black glove changes repeatedly from his right hand (where it should be) to his left hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When Luke swings a blow at the Emperor in the Second Death Star, Vader blocks with his light-saber. So his blade should be between Luke's blade and the Emperor. In the 2004 DVD release, the red of Vader's light-saber is clearly visible on top of the blue of Luke's blade, so it looks more like Luke has just defended the Emperor from Vader. I have just taken a look at this, and it could be that the lightsabres are interlocking.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Vader throws his saber at Luke who is hiding on the catwalk in the Death Star, Vader's saber blade is coming out of the butt end of the hilt - not the proper blade end.
  
  
• Continuity: When Vader is searching for Luke in the Emperor's throne room, he is holding his ignited 'red blade' lightsaber in his right hand, and another unignited lightsaber handle in his left hand. This is because of a deleted scene where Luke throws his lightsaber out to Vader.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Jabba's sail barge explodes, the heroes ride away in one of the skiffs, while the other is left behind. The abandoned one, which should appear to be floating, can be seen to be standing on stilts.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the speederbike chase, there are several shots where the support arms are visible holding the front of the bikes up.
  
  
• Continuity: Each time the camera returns to the Emperor's throne, the stars in the window behind it have reset to the same position.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Luke jumps off his speeder bike during the chase, you can clearly see him bounce on a pad or cushion when he hits the ground.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Emperor and Vader trying to make Luke change to the "Dark Side", Darth Vader's helmet is alternately clean/dusty between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: During the battle on Endor, Leia is shot in the shoulder. However, later on, we see Han applying a bandage to her bicep. Her shoulder wound seems to have disappeared.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Leia points the cannon at the deck, she runs to Luke who says, "Come on!" but his lips do not move.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Han throws the piece of equipment at the Imperial Officer (the one that says, "Freeze!") inside the Shield Generator, the officer begins his 'fall' (in actuality, he jumps) over the bars before it even comes close to him. Fixed on Special Edition and DVD version?
  
  
• Continuity: When Wicket wakes up Leia in the woods, his spear is alternately on top of and underneath the bottom of his hood/bib, and this garment also changes length within this scene.
  
  
• Continuity: After Vader saved Luke and the two are in the hanger, Luke is holding the fallen Vader. A tear is visible traveling down Luke's right cheek as the camera is zoomed out. In the next shot, is cheek is dry.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Han is running away from the shield generator and yelling "Move!" when he says the second "Move!" he casts a reflection on what looks like a Plexiglas panel, apparently used to protect the actors from flying debris.
  
  
• Continuity: Jerjerrod is a Moff, however his Imperial rank insignia suggests that he is of a considerably lower rank.
  
  
• Continuity: Just after landing on Endor, the rebels spot some storm troopers in the forest. You can see a close-up of Luke and Leia. The left side of Leia's helmet has a large round dent in it. During the speeder bike scene there is a shot of the left side of her helmet and there is no dent.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Luke hits one of Jabba's guards into the monster pit, he disappears just as he gets to the monster's mouth.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Luke and Han are meant to be thrown into the pit with the monster in it, they attack the guards and Luke hits one with his lightsaber. The man reacts as if he has been hit with something hard like a piece of wood, rather than a lightsaber, which would have sliced through him.
  
  
• Continuity: The Executor is at the front of the Star Destroyer squadron during the combat scenes of the Battle of Endor, but is in the middle of the squadron in the view from Palpatine's tower.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the scene in which Luke tells Leia that Vader is his father, he claims he can sense Vader on the planet. Vader's shuttle does not arrive on Endor until the next scene. This is possibly a deliberate mistake by Luke to convince Leia that he needed to go.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Luke and Leia are on the speeder bikes, Luke says, "You take that one I'll take these two" telling Leia which enemy to attack. When he says this, his lips don't move with the sound at all.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: The background behind the Imperial officer who says "freeze" is clearly visible through his torso. Also the stuntman jumps before being hit with the pack.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: After C3PO gives himself up outside the bunker entrance in preparation for the Ewok ambush, the commander shouts "Bring those two down here". Both the current and subsequent shots reveal that he could only possibly have know that C3PO was there as R2D2 was completely out of view to the Imperial forces.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When C3PO walks down the stairs entering Jabba's residence, R2D2 does not follow. The next moment R2D2 is following again downstairs.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the desert Jabba pulls Leia towards him telling her she will learn to appreciate him. Jabba's face is mirrored.
  
  
• Continuity: During Luke's message where he offers C3PO and R2D2 to Jabba the Hutt, when the scene switches to Jabba, then pans down to the small creature sitting in front of Jabba, the bubbles in Jabba's pipe and the smoke behind him can be seen floating down instead of up, indicating the scene was played backwards.
  
  
• Continuity: Luke removes only Vader's helmet and face mask during the unmasking, clearly he is still wearing the chin section of his mask (visible in every shot) yet right after Vader dies, Luke leans over him and the chin section is now missing.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the Battle of Endor, Wedge sends a message to pilots in Red Squadron, yet the pilot who responds to the message is clearly an A-Wing pilot with Green Squadron.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Special Edition where young Anakin appears as a force ghost, he is wearing the Jedi robes Obi-Wan wears during episode IV, V, VI. Anakin never wore these style robes before his conversion to Darth Vader & are not worn by Obi-Wan until episode IV.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At 01:07:50-52 the Ewoks are bowing down and one of the faces is seen from close up. You can clearly see holes in the mask revealing the wearers face where the eyes should be.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Leia is shot, the burn mark is visible on her poncho.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In several scenes where the window behind the Emperor's throne is shown, the stars are moving indicating that the Death Star is rotating. However, the shadows cast by the window separators are not moving - they should be since they are from light outside the DS.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When two ewoks got shot by the AT-ST, you can see the line on one of the costumes very clearly.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: In translated versions of the movie, Bib Fortuna still responds to Luke's order in English: "I will take you to Jabba now." Also, you can hear some of Jabba's lines in English: "Jedi mind trick."
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Max Rebo, the guy that looks like a blue elephant, is clearly made out of nylon.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the end, when an ewok hits some stormtroopers helmet to make music as if they were drums, we hear metallic sounds. Stormtroopers armor and helmet are clearly made out of plastic, so they can't produce any metallic sound like this.
  
  
• Continuity: As Boba Fett is aiming at him from behind, Luke can be seen throwing a kick at a henchman (with a "WW2 German style" helmet) that misses by a mile and has no effect. While Boba Fett flies by him after being hit by Han immediately afterwards, Luke throws yet another kick at the same henchman, missing again - yet this time the guy throws away his blaster and jumps overboard.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Death Star 2 dogfight, a TIE interceptor is destroyed by "Grey Leader" of the Y Wing squadron. However, Wedge ("Red Leader") acknowledges the hit by saying "Good shot, Red 2".
  
  
• Continuity: When Lando Calrissian requests all wings to report, the leader of the B Wing squadron does not respond. Also the B Wings do not appear in the battle - they are never to be seen again after the formation flight before the battle.
  
  
• Continuity: When Luke enters the death star 2 he has no glove on his right hand then during the fight with Darth Vader and the emperor the glove appears on his hand.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Endor is repeatedly referred to as the "Forest Moon" or "Sanctuary Moon" throughout the entire movie, yet in the scene when the Rebel Fleet comes out of hyperspace, you see Endor and the Death Star from a distance, but there appears to be no sign of the planet the Endor moon is orbiting. However, the novelization clearly states that the planet has been destroyed "of unknown cataclysm and disappeared into unknown realms."
  
  
• Plot holes: When Luke and Leia talk briefly on Endor before Luke leaves the planet to turn himself over to Vader and the Emperor, he asks her about her mother and she says she has some memory of her, that she was always sad, and Luke replies that he has no memory of his mother. However, at the end of Revenge of the Sith it is shown that Padme dies right after the babies are born, therefore giving Leia no chance to have memories of her mother.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene of Luke and Yoda talking; this is where Yoda is dying, look closely behind him and you can just see a small, white light bulb and light fixture recessed into the ceiling.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Vader stands up after being kicked down the stairs, you can clearly see the shadow of the stunt light saber on the floor.
  
  

• Plot holes: SPOILER: When Luke asks his sister what their mother was like, she says "I don't remember much, she died when I was very young", this would indicate that the princess would remember something of their mom. But their mom died when she was giving birth, so not only, as twins, would they remember the same things, but who can remember anything from when they were born?
  
  

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