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Fred Claus (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Miscellaneous: In the end credits, the promotional note for the soundtrack album is misspelled "sountrack."
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: A trip to the North Pole in mid to late December would be in the dark. Fred's first and second arrival and the arrival of Mr. Northcutt all happen on bright sunny days.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fred is attacked by Santa's Secret Service upon his initial arrival to the North Pole, a patch of snow remains stuck to his face. Not only does this not melt any from his body heat, but the patch changes places several times during subsequent shots.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: The first snowball Santa throws during his snowball fight with Fred has clearly been "pre-rolled" for him to grab quickly in the fake snow.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "intervention" scene, after he has broken free of his wrapping paper and tape bonds, the amount of gift wrap still stuck on Fred varies. Specifically, a piece appears and disappears on the left breast pocket of his shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fred is in the workshop watching them make the bicycle the little girl wanted (orange with banana handlebars), the bicycle they make for her and put in the box is indeed orange, but has short white handlebars, not banana color or shaped ones as she asked.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While traveling at a very high rate of speed in the sleigh, neither Fred's nor the elf's clothing or hats are moving at all in the wind that should have been created.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Despite being set during winter at the North Pole, no one's breath can be seen in any of the outdoor scenes.
  
  
• Errors in geography: After Northcutt kills the power, and Fred and Willy are "flying blind", Willy consults a map and says they're near "longitude 38.25..." and shouts for Fred to "take a left!" When Fred takes the left turn, they're in Tokyo. The Longitude of Tokyo is 139 degrees, 46 minutes East. 38.25 East is the Longitude of Matui, Tanzania.
  
  
• Continuity: Fred slowly brings his arm down while doing karate moves à la Elvis at the workshop, but his arm is gone in the next shot.
  
  
• Plot holes: Willy tells Fred that they have 10 hours to deliver the presents. Based on the world sunset/sunrise times on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day, they would actually have up to 29 hours, the points closest to the North Pole being in darkness the longest. Moreover, the sequence has Fred traveling to spots that would not be in darkness at the same time.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In one shot during the fight on the snowmobile, the background is painted and clearly fake.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fred tells Nick that he will fly the sleigh, Nick has a pink slip in his hand. When we cut back to Nick after Fred leaves, the pink slip is gone.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The background in the scene where Nick gets a present from Fred is clearly fake.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the Siblings Anonymous meeting, Roger Clinton explains that he got upset watching footage of his famous brother Bill on the History Channel making his 1993 State of the Union Address to Congress. There was no State of the Union address in 1993 as Bill Clinton had just become President and the traditional speech never takes place during an inauguration year.
  
  
• Continuity: Fred hits one color on the "Nice" pad, but the "Nice" stamped on each report is multi-colored.
  
  

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): SPOILER: When Mother Claus quizzes Fred on what he "wrote" on the card that came with the gift he "sent" her, Fred sarcastically responds: "Happy anniversary, I hope you choke on your meal". As the Claus family became immortal when Nick became a saint, Mother Claus cannot die, much less, choke.
  
  

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