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The School of Rock (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene, where the students are saying the pledge with their hand over their heart, one girl (Caucasian, blonde hair in braided pig tails), uses her left hand instead of right.
  
  
• Continuity: When Miss Mullens is walking down the corridor, you see her stop to talk to some painters. In the shot through the CCTV the painters have vanished
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When putting the drum kit away, the Hi-hat is Missing
  
  

• Miscellaneous: The reason Dewey wants to be in Battle of the Bands is to get some money. However he bought a full-working CCTV and got it installed. How he can afford it is beyond me.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dewey asks Zach what he'd tell a bully, the clock's hand positions moves back and forth between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dewey is eating the turkey sub, the arrangement of the plastic wrap as well as the pattern of bites missing varies between shots.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Dewey is explaining the diagram of the history of rock, "Siouxsie and the Banshees" is misspelled (as Siouxie).
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: While Dewey and the school band are practicing, Dewey's leg accidentally pulls the cord out of Zack's guitar, but the sound of the song they are playing is unchanged.
  
  
• Continuity: When the kids are pledging their allegiance to the band, the hand that Eleni is using switches between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dewey is climbing the stairs to go watch the kids in music class after hearing music from the bathroom, his shirt is half untucked. When he arrives at the door, it is tucked in completely.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dewey is removing his guitar and getting ready for his crowd dive at the beginning of the movie, one shot shows him still standing downstage with the guitar on.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When No Vacancy are playing at the start of the movie, you can see the drummer hit the crash, yet no sound is made.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When No Vacancy is playing at the Battle of the Bands, no one is playing the slide guitar part in the last chorus.
  
  
• Continuity: When Freddy and Lawrence come to get Dewey out of bed to go to the Battle of the Bands, Dewey's sheet is first halfway up his chest, but in the next shot it is down near his waist.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dewey and Miss Mullins drink their beer in the bar, there are two shots after each other that show the same waitress starting from her same starting position.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dewey mispronounces Rush drummer Neil Peart's last name as "pert" instead of Peart's preferred pronunciation of "peert". This is a very common mistaken pronunciation.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At the concert, the shadow of the camera falls on the amplifier in a close-up of Alex.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: While Zack is playing his newly composed song in the background as Billy and Dewey are discussing the band's outfits, you can hear the chords and notes change, yet Zack's fingering doesn't change for the last part in the shot.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Dewey and Miss Mullins go to the bar, Dewey is heard singing and snapping his fingers as he drives. However, you can see through the windshield that both of his hands are on the steering wheel and he is not snapping his fingers.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tomika speaks with Dewey after class, Dewey swings his hand out, and then repeats the move without first bringing it back in.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dewey is about to leave No Vacancy, he points his guitar over his shoulder. In the next shot his guitar is by his side.
  
  
• Continuity: Just prior to the band prayer, when the kids put their hands in the middle, in one shot Tomika is very quick to put her hand in the middle. In the close-up of the hands her hand is one of the last to be put in the middle.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dewey speaks to the battle of the band director, in one shot Summer is looking towards the director, in the next she is looking towards the band (just prior to Dewey throwing the chair).
  
  
• Continuity: The telephone cord switches positions after Dewey hangs up the phone and puts it on the coffee table.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie the middle of the blackboard is clear. But when we see Dewey assigning the band, we see a math poster in the middle of it magnifying the digits of the number one million.
  
  
• Continuity: After Dewey listens to Zack's secret song, during one angle switch, Zack's hand goes from on to off to back on the guitars fingerboard.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the Battle of the Bands performance two different guitars can be heard on the audio track playing at the same time, although for most of the song Dewey is not playing his guitar and Zack is the only other guitarist on stage.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: The title of the movie is "School of Rock". The only time it is referred to as "The School of Rock" is a neon sign at the very beginning. The directors commentary addresses the titling error and specifically states that the title is "School of Rock."
  
  
• Continuity: When they get to the Battle of the Bands, he tells the woman, "We are competing. We are the School of Rock." They were already on the bill, and then the name of the band happened later, and there didn't seem to be any time for the person backstage to have that name listed on her clipboard.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Following School of Rock's performance at the Battle of the Bands, Miss Mullins is stopped by security and then allowed access backstage by claiming, "I am principal of the school's band." In reality, she is principal of the band's school.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Towards the beginning of the movie, Summer clearly states that her parents pay 15,000 dollars a year for her tuition. When the angry parents confront Principal Mullins after parent night, Summer's mother shouts numerous times "I do not pay 15,000 dollars a month for my child...".
  
  
• Continuity: When "School of Rock" are on stage for their big show, Dewey enthusiastically plays the lead guitar break after the first verse, where he starts dramatically flailing and stomping around the stage. Looking closely you can see his feet getting dangerously tangled in the blue guitar cord used by Katie on bass. In the next shot from a different angle, however, that specific blue cord is nowhere to be seen on the floor near Dewey's guitar theatrics.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie when Jack writes "Mr. S" on the board, it is slightly scratchy and pointed, a few shots later, "Mr. S" is written on the board in more legible, rounded handwriting.
  
  
• Continuity: When Billy is showing off his costumes, Freddy Jones and the Posh Spice bassist are modeling them for Schneebly (Finn). They continue wearing the costumes when they are learning Zack's song, but later in the scene, they are wearing their school uniforms. When, where and how did they change their clothes - especially while they were having band practice?
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the end of the "Math Song" Dewey says about the number nine "And that's a magic number." The quote is a reference to the 1973 educational cartoon "Schoolhouse Rock!", though in the original series nine is "Naughty Number Nine" while "Three is a Magic Number."
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During one of the scenes when the band is practicing Zack's song, there is a shot where Freddy is seen sitting on the stool doing nothing, but the drum line is still being played.
  
  
• Continuity: When Summer is waiting for Dewey to arrive so she can explain her argument about not wanting to be a groupie, she's seen leaning against a tree with no lipstick, but when she approaches Dewey she's wearing bright red lipstick.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dewey and Ms. Mullins are sitting in the bar, the type of glass that Ms. Mullins' is drinking from changes from round to multi-sided.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Summer is writing the schedule, she only writes the times and not what they're supposed to be doing.
  
  

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