Goofs for
Horton Hears a Who! (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: When Vlad drops the clover, he drops it straight down. Horton shouldn't have had to be halfway out in the field looking for the clover with the speck, as the movie shows. Also, the clover with the speck wasn't growing, so Horton shouldn't have had to pick the clover.
  
  
• Continuity: At breakfast, when it's Jojo’s turn with his dad, 12 seconds start on the clock, but when the mayor starts showing Jojo all the perks about being mayor, the clock goes back to 12 seconds left when it should be at 5 seconds left.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The mayor explains to his son that the family has been in Whoville for centuries. A few scenes later we learn that the city is planning their centennial. Actually they are celebrating their one hundred years of happiness and peace, so his family could have been there for centuries.
  
  

• Plot holes: When the mayor is telling Horton about his family, he says "I have a beautiful wife, ninety-six daughters and one son." He doesn't mention his son's name. Yet later in the movie, Horton says "The mayor has one son named Jo-Jo." Unless he and the mayor have another conversation in the movie that we don't see, Horton couldn't have known Jo-Jo's name.
  
  
• Factual errors: In order to save the spec of dust, Horton quickly sucks up some water from the pond and swallows it. However elephants can't drink through their noses. They use them to squirt water into their mouths when they're thirsty.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where we first see Jo-jo, the narrator introduced him as "the smallest who of all." But seconds later one of his little sisters appears in the same shot and she is clearly smaller than he is.
  
  

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