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• Continuity: In the near end of the film, while Peter Parker/Spider-Man is on top of the large crane, he is in a prone position; and we see a rip in his outfit along the top part of his left thigh. Moments later, the camera re-cuts back to him, and the rip is now on his right thigh.
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter jumps across the table to save Mary Jane from the car coming through the window, her chair falls over as he grabs her. In the next shot we see him lift her out of her chair without toppling it.
  
  
• Continuity: The wheels on the car Doc Ock throws through the cafe window are spinning as it flies over Peter and Mary Jane. But when it lands moments later, the wheels are stationary.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When Peter is talking with Aunt May while she's loading boxes out of the house, you can see the shape and bulge of his microphone and wire under his shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: The car thrown by Dr. Ock comes through the window sideways, yet when it flies over Peter and Mary Jane, you can see by the position of the wheel that it's flying straight. It lands sideways again.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When we first see Aunt May in the movie, she's speaking while kissing Peter but her lips are not moving.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dr. Ock walks out of the hospital and flips the taxi that's coming toward him, the oncoming traffic changes between shots. You can see that the car is going to land on its hood in the middle of the street and there are no cars parked, yet in the next close-up shot, it lands on its wheels and over a parked taxi, pointed on the wrong way.
  
  
• Continuity: When the man enters Jameson's office to deliver Spider-Man's suit, he is holding the phone against his chest. In the next shot it is clearly seen that he isn't holding it there anymore.
  
  
• Continuity: When Henry - the little boy helping Aunt May pack ? says, "Hi" to Peter, he is standing by the driveway, yet in the next shot when Peter tells him "You're getting tall", they both are standing several feet away, right in front of the garage door. The same switch takes place when Aunt May tells Peter "Everybody loves a hero".
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter saves Mary Jane when she is captured by Doc Ock, the upside-down "U" scar that is normally on Peter's right cheek is shown on his left cheek.
  
  
• Continuity: Spider-Man's right eye-piece is burned during his fight with Dr. Octopus on the train, necessitating its removal. When the mask is returned to Spider-Man, the burned eye-piece is clearly visible. However, when Dr. Octopus delivers a bound and unconscious Spider-Man to Harry Osborn in the next scene, Spider-man's mask is undamaged.
  
  
• Continuity: In the train fight sequence, Spider-Man's left sleeve is ripped but, in subsequent shots, isn't.
  
  
• Continuity: In the zoomed-out shot of Spider-Man stopping the train, he's not holding onto the webs, nor are they anywhere to be seen. In all immediately-previous and immediately-subsequent shots, they are clearly visible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Spiderman is carried back into the train one of the hand rails wobble, indicating that it is made of rubber.
  
  
• Continuity: When Spider-Man is trying to stop the train, the font left window of the first car shatter, we can see that the handrails are on each side of the door, (pointing toward each other). The next shot shows the suit on his left arm ripping, and then the handrails are now pointing forward. A couple of shots later, when the right window shatters, the handrails are again pointing toward each other.
  
  
• Continuity: When we first see the "Spider Man No More" newspaper, the normally red part of the costume appears green. In the next shot of the papers, the costume is red again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter and Mary Jane kiss at the end of the movie, as they're going in for the kiss, their heads are both tilted to their left. When their lips touch, their heads are both tilted to the right.
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter Parker arrives at the theater playhouse to see Mary Jane's play, he is driving the car of the criminals whom he had just bagged as Spiderman. In the first wide shot, the car's windshield is intact. However, the subsequent shots show the windshield ripped off at its base. This is because the preceding chase sequence originally included the car driving underneath a semi-truck, but once that part was cut, CGI artists went in and replaced the windshield for the establishing shot.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Peter tries his "I'm back" jump, he is moving in a parabolic curve until his jump fails and he drops straight down into the alley. Physics states that he would have continued on his parabola, causing him to hit the wall at some point.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the first battle scene with Doc Ock fighting Spider-Man, Spider-Man, who has strength proportionate to a spider, hits Ock plenty of times, not only with his fists, webs, and feet, but with a desk and a window, too. All of these times Ock barely flinches with the blows. And yet, at the end of this scene, the elderly Aunt May clubs Ock over the head with an umbrella hard enough not only to make him back off but to break his sun glasses which were previously unscratched. It has been well known that Peter pulls his punches to refrain from dealing damage to his enemies which my not be able to take the full blow of one of his hits.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dr. Ock and Spider Man are fighting and fall on the passing train, they start rolling, leaving huge dents on the top of the first car, as seen by the passengers inside, yet in the next shot the train appears undamaged.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the burning building sequence, wires supporting large falling debris disappear and reappear between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Spider-Man saves Mary Jane and has her suspended in a web on the crane, the first shot shows her on the very edge of the right-hand side. In the following close-up shots you can see plenty of web to her right, making it look like she is in the center.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious aircraft cable running through the "web" Peter crawls across to talk to MJ, especially during close-ups in their conversation.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Peter is in the Pizzaria, his boss tells him to deliver the "deep dish pizzas". Later on when the pizzas are on the balcony, and the box is opened, they are revealed to be thin crust.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Spidey takes off his mask, revealing his identity to Octavious, when he removes the physical mask his hair is messed up. In the next frame, his hair is perfectly combed again.
  
  
• Continuity: At the pizza parlor in the beginning, the clock behind Peter goes through the same second and minutes twice.
  
  
• Continuity: At Joe's Pizza in the beginning of the film, as Mr. Aziz is speaking with Peter, a man sitting at a table behind Peter is drinking from a cup labeled Dr. Pepper. In the next shot, the man has an empty 20 oz. Dr. Pepper bottle next to his cup which subsequently disappears again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: You can see a long cable when Spider-Man saves the two kids running in the street.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Aunt May is yelling during the first fight sequence with Doc. Ock, her mouth doesn't match her yell to Peter/Spider-Man.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Peter and Aunt are at the graveside, it's supposed to be a windy day. But the leaves are only blowing in the fore and mid ground. The background is completely clear.
  
  
• Continuity: When Aunt May is moving her things out of the house and Peter comes over, she gives him a hug. The first shot shows Aunt May's head resting on Peter's right shoulder, but in the next shot, Aunt May is resting on Peter's left shoulder.
  
  
• Continuity: When Aunt May is falling, after the bank scene, her purse is over her right shoulder. When Spiderman catches her, her purse is over her left shoulder.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the party at the planetarium, the saxophone soloist's fingers are not going along with the music that can be heard.
  
  
• Continuity: When Aunt May is outside her house packing her things into boxes with Henry Jackson, she hugged Peter after saying 'I love you, Peter.' When she first hugged him, her head was to Peter's left shoulder. But when the view changes, she has her head to Peter's right shoulder. When the view changes again, her head is back to Peter's left shoulder.
  
  
• Factual errors: Near the end of the movie, when Octavius' fusion reactor starts to go out of control, they decide to cause it to go into the ocean. Doing so would create enormous amounts of steam, yet none is created.
  
  
• Continuity: Flopped shot: when Mary Jane runs to meet Peter at the end, her hairstyle is a mirrored image.
  
  
• Continuity: When Octavius' fusion reactor starts sucking in nearby objects, necklaces are ripped from the necks of women, but their earrings stay put.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the bank, when Doc Ock throws the vault door at Peter and Aunt May and they slide to either side of it, you can see the cables under Peter's chair used to pull it. (Corrected on the DVD.)
  
  
• Continuity: As Peter is walking along the top of the building, about to do his "I'm back" jump, he is about three quarters of the way past a skylight on the roof. Then the shot changes, and he is just walking up to it.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry is held upside-down by Doc Ock, his tie is tacked to his shirt partway down (so it doesn't fly in his face). A couple seconds later, on the balcony, Harry's tie is not tacked.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Spider-Man "steals" his costume back from J. Jonah Jameson, Jameson is heard yelling "he's a thief, a criminal" etc., however, in the shot where Jameson is standing next to the web/note left by Spider-Man, his mouth is not moving.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Peter is in the burning building, and is trying to get out, three big chunks of the floor collapse. Before they do, you can see lines pre-cut in the floor so it breaks the way it does.
  
  
• Continuity: When Spider-Man falls off the front of the train, he is caught by passengers. One hand comes over his right shoulder and grabs him on the chest, but in the next shot the hand is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter Parker saves the child from the burning building, she is old enough to stand and help him up. However, when he hands the child to the parents after exiting the building, the fake bundle he hands them is the size of the infant.
  
  
• Continuity: After Doc Ock kidnaps MJ he takes her back to his lab and has got her tied up behind him while he works on his machine. Her arms are almost vertical and straight in the close-ups but she has bent elbows in the long shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter is first seen running with the pizzas, he is carrying eight boxes. In the next shot he is carrying seven, and Spider-Man only leaves seven on the balcony. When Peter delivers them, there are once again eight boxes (two have been crushed together, but this does not account for the changing number of boxes).
  
  
• Continuity: During Peter's talk with MJ in the back yard, he shakes his head "no" when viewed from behind but he's steady in the front view.
  
  
• Factual errors: The sticker for the pizza parlor on Peter Parker's helmet says "Bleeker Street". The street in lower Manhattan is actually Bleecker. It's often spelled wrong, though.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After the cemetery scene and before Peter confesses about Uncle Ben, there is an establishing shot of Aunt May's house. The way her yellow car is parked in the driveway leaves no way for the doors to open. The space between her house and MJ's Parent's house is too narrow. Obviously the car was rolled in to obtain the shot.
  
  
• Continuity: The platform that holds Doc's arms before he first puts them on changes positions between shots. At first it is facing right, away from the crowd then it is facing the crowd directly in a second shot.
  
  
• Continuity: During the car chase, the criminal in the passenger seat first fires a shotgun at the police, and then when he notices Spider-Man, he pumps the action, but begins to fire some form of fully automatic weapon (a shotgun is not an automatic). In the next shot of the car, he is still holding the shotgun, but continues to fire it like an automatic.
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter makes his pizza delivery the clock behind the woman's desk shows it to be about 2:06. When Peter gets to her desk a few seconds later to drop off the pizzas, the woman looks at the clock on the wall and the time is 2:03.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Octavious introduces his four arms, and as he turns to have the device attached to his back he says, "They are impervious to heat and magnetism." As he turns his lips are not moving but we hear him speaking.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the police car rolls during the chase, the driver is wearing a stunt helmet.
  
  
• Continuity: As Doc Ock is kidnapping MJ, he climbs up a building and one tentacle hits a sign which falls down. A few shots later, when Peter takes his glasses on and off, the sign is back up.
  
  
• Continuity: After Spider-Man loses his powers for the first time, he falls in a puddle which soaks his hair and leaves one part of it sticking up. As soon as he attempts to climb the wall, though, his hair is not only slightly wet but it is perfectly combed.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the fire scene, Peter falls through the floor and the girl helps pull him up. As she rises to her feet doing so, kneepads can clearly be made out beneath her pajamas.
  
  
• Continuity: In the warehouse, during the climax of the movie, when Spider-Man is on the ground and Dr. Octavious grabs him, there is a chain on the ground next to Ock's legs.. Ock's machine is supposed to attract metal. However, the chain is not being attracted at all.
  
  
• Continuity: Ursula asks Peter if he wants a piece of chocolate cake; however, in the next shot you see Peter finishing off a white sponge cake.
  
  
• Continuity: After fighting outside of the bank, Doc Ock is carrying no money bags. There are many shots showing all his free hands and even when they leave the bank initially there is nothing in his hands. Then when we see Doc Ock leaving there are two money bags in his tentacle.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Mary Jane is lowered a great distance from the crane after being saved by Spider-Man from Doc Ock, she looks sideways to him when she should have looked up.
  
  
• Continuity: The scene after Spider-man defeats Doc Ock, he and Mary Jane are talking on a giant web. When the camera is on Peter's face, look at the webbing behind him, you can easily see through the clear web-like matter and see the metal wires that make up the web.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The scene when Spider-man is fighting Doc Ock for the first time in the bank behind Doc Ock are the windows of the bank that he will crash into later. When you look in the windows you see a White bus with a orange line in the middle that says "Metro Bus". The Metro Bus only runs in Los Angeles and not in New York.
  
  
• Continuity: In the bank fight scene Doc Ock grabs some money bags to throw at Spider-Man. A little while later he grabs the same money bags again.
  
  
• Continuity: In the pizzeria when Peter is being fired, there are words at the top and bottom of the clock behind him. Halfway through the scene, there are only words above the clock. The words at the bottom are gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Doc Ock grabs MJ at the café, her left arm is clearly inside the grasp of the claw, as the shot continues, her arm comes out of the grasp.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious pre-rigging of Spider-Man's costume in the trashcan, presumably to match the famous comic book image of the same scene, which indicates it's a different one than in his hands. He then drops straight down which means it'd miss the can since the can is several feet to the side!
  
  
• Continuity: In the "Horror Hospital" scene, Dr. Octavius is prone on the operating table with his head supported by a Mayfield horseshoe in all shots except the one from underneath the table looking up at his face where his head is held in place by a Mayfield skull clamp (a.k.a "Crown of Thorns").
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter runs down the alley to change in to Spider-Man, his costume has a low neckline to hide beneath his shirt. When he removes the mask after falling on to the rooftop the neckline is higher, indicating that it is a different costume.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When Peter has delivered the pizza and is untying the rope, the shadow of the boom mic is visible behind the wall.
  
  
• Factual errors: Parts of the lower side of the construction in which Doc Ock has set up his second experiment are also made of metal. This means that when the experiment fails again, the base of the building would be sucked into the tritium sphere as well. This in turn would cause the structure to collapse so that the sphere would fall into the river. There would be no need for Doc Ock to make this happen himself.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the "El" sequence, the train says Bay Ridge in the destination window on the front of the train. All MTA trains in NY have a letter or number designation on the first and last cars.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Peter is untying the ropes holding the pizza delivery together at the secretary's counter, near the end of the shot you can see the secretary holding up a bottle of water with a straw in it, and drinking out of it. However, the straw never touches the water.
  
  
• Factual errors: Many times when Spider-man uses his webs, there is nothing that they would attach to.
  
  
• Continuity: When Spidey falls after trying to climb the wall, he reads the newspaper and we see his bare hand. Then we see him in his Spidey outfit again with his hands covered.
  
  
• Errors in geography: There are no elevated trains in Manhattan running near skyscrapers or between high-rise buildings. The longer shots of the train exterior look rather like Chicago "L" lines, and in fact, the ‘making of’ reveals this footage was shot in Chicago.
  
  
• Continuity: During the clock battle sequence, Doc Ock's tentacles throws one of the the clock's hands at Spiderman. But when the two fall onto the passenger train, both hands are intact.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Harry Osborne is preparing to confront Spiderman he picks up a large sheathed dagger. As he does this, the sound effect is of a blade being unsheathed. We hear the same sound effect a second time when Harry actually unsheathes the dagger just before unmasking Spiderman.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end of the movie, in the scene where Doctor Octavius starts his second fusion experiment, Spider-Man pulls out the plugs to stop the machine. But a few camera shots later when Spider-Man takes off his mask in front of Octavius, you can see the plugs behind him perfectly intact.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene when Spider-man is about to fall off the mono-rail, but the passengers grab him, you can clearly see his muscles flatten underneath the hands. This makes it obvious he is wearing a muscle suit.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the burning building scene, after Peter misses the jump and he's hanging over the fire, he throws the little girl onto the ledge to save her. A dummy is obviously used because of how hard she was slammed against the floor and how she doesn't react to the slam.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the wedding, John Jameson should be in uniform. He is an astronaut, but he's wearing a tuxedo.
  
  
• Continuity: In the end of the first movie during the graveyard scene, Uncle Ben's grave is surrounded by other graves, but in this sequel his grave is not surrounded by any others.
  
  
• Factual errors: Tridium is actually a gas isotope (Hydrogen - 3) and as such would not be a solid at room temperature.
  
  
• Continuity: When Otto Octavius is demonstrating the fusion experiment to the group, Peter Parker is standing right next to Harry. In another shot, Harry is by himself. In the next one, Peter is back next to Harry.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dock Ock is climbing the building right after the bank heist, we see from inside the offices how the tentacles crash though the wall - the pincers are closed in their "spiky" form and penetrate the wall completely. However, when the view changes to outside we see the pincers open and "grabbing" into the masonry, not going through the wall but only into it enough to hold on.
  
  
• Continuity: When Doctor Octopus exits the hospital, two of his mechanical arms pick up and throw a taxi, while the other two brace themselves on the street. But in the scene where he rips off the bank vault's door, he uses all four arms. This would be impossible unless his biological legs and back had the strength to lift the vault door.
  
  

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