Night at the Museum (2006)
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Character error (10) |
Continuity (18) |
Crew or equipment visible (1) |
Factual errors (3) |
Incorrectly regarded as goofs (3) |
Revealing mistakes (6) |
Spoilers (4)
Boom mic visible
When Larry and Rebecca were talking outside, you can clearly see a mike drop down in the shot, bob up and down and then taken out of the shot. At the end with career day at school the mike appears again.
Character error
Dexter the Capuchin monkey "speaks" like a chimpanzee.
(at around 46 mins) Sacagawea wasn't a tracker, she was only a guide and translator. Her husband, Charbonneau, was the tracker on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
(at around 51 mins) Larry refers to the Neanderthals as the first people to build fires. In fact, Homo erectus achieved this before the Neanderthals.
The "Museum of Natural History" has exhibits of modern historical figures and events.
(at around 46 mins) The Hall of African Mammals includes both Dexter the Capuchin monkey (from South America) which is a mammal but not African, a snake which is a reptile, and an ostrich (bird) which is African but not a mammal.
Attila the Hun's statue is of average height. The real man was very short.
On the posters for the movie, the T.Rex has three fingers on its hands. T.Rex had only two fingers per hand.
Theodore Roosevelt was known for wearing a certain type of glasses that clipped across the bridge of his nose rather than having arms to go over his ears. "Teddy" in the film has glasses with arms over his ears.
(at around 46 mins) The day after Larry's first night, Rebecca tells a children's tour that the lion is the "king of the jungle". The lion lives in plains and open grassland, and is unsuited for either hunting or concealing itself in jungle or forest. Its true appellation is "king of beasts".
(at around 1h 12 mins) Rebecca mispronounces "capuchin"; she says [ka pu' shin] but the correct pronunciation is [cap' u shin].
Continuity
(at around 1h 2 mins) The amount of fire extinguisher foam on Larry's face changes frequently.
(at around 1h 12 mins) When Larry is telling Rebecca that the museum comes to life, she has no coat on. But right as she is leaving she has a coat on. She is still wearing it when she gets outside.
(at around 12 mins) Cecil shuts the bottom half of the security office door when Larry enters. When Larry leaves the office, the door is open.
(at around 35 mins) In the miniature people scene, after Larry breaks free from his upper body restraints, the roping around his ankles is still in place. In the shot just before the Romans attack him with fire balls, the ropes are shown around his ankles, still in place. However, after the Romans begin to attack him, Larry is able to get up and run away with ease - there is no shown attempt to break the restraints around his ankles.
(at around 15 mins) After Cecil scares Larry with the voodoo attire, Cecil removes the headpiece and his hair is messy. A second later without a break in conversation, Cecil's hair is neatly groomed.
(at around 8 mins) When Larry and Nick are in Central Park at the beginning of the movie, the building with two towers is visible behind Larry. When they turn to leave the park, the building is still behind Larry. However, in the immediate scene following, the same building is now in front of Nick and Larry.
(at around 23 mins) The T-rex picks the desk, and drops it. It falls vertically. But when we see the hall in full, the desk is lying near the wall, on its side.
(at around 48 mins) When Larry and Rebecca go for a walk, you see them outside the park, then well inside the park and then walking through the entrance in successive shots.
(at around 53 mins) When Larry sets Jed and Octavius down on the bench, they are closer together in the next shot.
The cut on Larry's lip changes places in one scene near the end of the movie.
(at around 55 mins) When Dexter tries to steal the keys for the second time and ends up with plastic toy keys, Larry puts the real keys in his shirt pocket. In the very next shot they are back hanging on his pants.
(at around 32 mins) When the Mayans attack Larry by shooting poison darts at him, the darts leave two very large welts on his face that also appears to have caused him to lose feeling there as well. But as the camera scene cuts to him trying to defend himself from a second, larger attack the welts are gone from his face and he takes about a dozen darts in his hand, this time with no apparent effect.
(at around 1h 5 mins) When Larry notices the caveman's footprints leading to the open window and goes to investigate, the footprints are gone in the next shot.
(at around 1h 12 mins) When Larry is trying to convince Rebecca that the exhibits at the museum come to life at night, they stop to talk directly in front of the Neanderthal exhibit, but when Rebecca walks away, they are next to Theodore Roosevelt.
(at around 5 mins) When Erica raises her glass of water to drink in an early scene, in the next shot her glass is back down.
The epaulets on Larry's normal jacket disappear and reappear between shots
(at around 33 mins) When Larry is 'tied' to the railway tracks, the tracks to his left appear complete and incomplete between shots.
(at around 50 mins) When the night guards meet Larry while clocking out for the last time, Larry isn't wearing a necktie, but when he turns around to greet Cecil, it suddenly appears.
Crew or equipment visible
When Larry is trying to convince Rebecca that the museum comes to life at night, a crew member is visible behind her.
Factual errors
(at around 25 mins) When Attila the Hun sticks his head between the elevator doors, the mechanism of the elevator would force the doors to open, rather than continue to close.
The plot depends on sunset occurring late in the evening (well after the museum closes) and sunrise occurring early in the morning (long before most of the city awakes for the day). But it's winter in New York, so sunset and sunrise would be during morning and afternoon rush hour.
(at around 1h 30 mins) The stagecoach wheels are shown skidding in the snow, although the horses were stopped by command and the brakes would not have been applied.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
Theodore Roosevelt was known to have a high-pitched, squeaky voice due to being a severe asthmatic. However, Teddy explains that he is a wax figure of Roosevelt designed to appear very heroic, so it makes sense that he'd have a deeper, more resonant voice, not unlike Robin Williams.
The correcting spelling and pronunciation of the name Sakagawea/Sacagawea/Sacajawea are unknown, hence the wide variety used in this movie.
Anything relating to what the magically-enlivened museum pieces can or cannot do. Since they are fantasy beings, they can do whatever the writers say they can do, even when the logic appears contradictory (e.g. Teddy knows he is a mannequin, while Sacagawea does not).
Revealing mistakes
The tablet was supposed to be made out of 24k gold (100%). But the weight of pure gold is 19.3 kg/liter, and Larry's son wouldn't be able to carry the tablet as easy as he does.
(at around 30 mins) When Dexter bites Larry on the nose there aren't any bite marks and no blood either.
(at around 35 mins) The Roman troops shoot flaming arrows at Larry, but his clothes show no burn marks.
(at around 41 mins) During one of the sunrise scenes, there's a pan shot of Teddy and his horse after they've frozen. The horse blinks.
(at around 50 mins) When Reg is in the security office copying Larry's house keys, the pad he uses has the imprint of a key on it before he uses it.
(at around 17 mins) When Cecil hands Larry his "torch" on his first night, he hands it to him lens side down, when Larry takes it it is lens side up (flipped).
Spoilers
Continuity
(at around 1h 40 mins) In closeup, Teddy and Sacajawea are on horseback at the dance; however, in the wide shots, they are dancing in the foreground.
Errors in geography
(at around 1h 40 mins) Near the end when Doctor McPhee is flipping through the TV news, it shows a local Fox station broadcast with a logo from Washington D.C., not New York City.
Revealing mistakes
(at around 1h 35 mins) When Octavius and Jed come back to the museum after surviving the car crash, you can see the reflection of the green screen in Octavius' helmet.
(at around 1h 40 mins) In the closing sequence when the museum characters are dancing and playing soccer, the cavemen are still marveling at fire, making noises, you can obviously see one of them has a filling - something neither a wax figure or a genuine caveman would have.
