0:00:25 > 0:00:28Welcome along to Great Movie Mistakes.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32This show blows a hole in the carefully constructed veneer of Hollywood perfection.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36Our team of continuity experts or geeks
0:00:36 > 0:00:41have locked themselves away in the archives to track down the best howlers on the silver screen.
0:00:41 > 0:00:47So here are those mistakes, the ones that have made all that hard work very nearly worthwhile.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Braveheart, and here's some angry Scots
0:00:52 > 0:00:55indulging in their traditional national sport...slaughter.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57Mel can't make up his mind what weapon to use, though.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Here, he's got a small pickaxe.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Now it's disappeared.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18Beg your pardon, it's a large sword. Sword.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20No, it's a pickaxe again.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25My mistake. It's a sword.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28God only knows what he's going to use by the time he gets there.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Here's Mel again, frolicking through woodland like what people did then.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Then all of a sudden, whoa!
0:01:37 > 0:01:39There's a sword in his hand.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44No. You're not drunk. Well, Mel might be.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47It just magically appears. Watch.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Weird. Still, at least he's got something he can cut his hair with now.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00- Thank you, Colonel.- This is Valkyrie.
0:02:00 > 0:02:05In which Tom Cruise tries to boost his flagging popularity by playing a German. Hmm.
0:02:09 > 0:02:14Cruise's character Stauffenberg hands Herr Hitler the revised version of Operation Valkyrie.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18See how Hitler grabs the folder with his right hand and in the next shot,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21he's holding it with his left hand.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Come on, Hitler. Ah!
0:02:23 > 0:02:24Rewind.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31See? A sloppy error from one of the most reviled men in history.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35And just to be clear, I'm talking about Hitler. Not Tom Cruise.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43This is Hairspray, and the tubby girl you can see is John Travolta,
0:02:43 > 0:02:47dressing like he does whenever his wife goes out.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Keep your eye on the road outside Mr Pinky's.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52There's no sign of a car, and then wallop!
0:02:52 > 0:02:55There's a pink one right next to them.
0:02:55 > 0:03:00Then it's gone again. Now it's back. And it's gone.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Like John, I'm deeply confused.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton loves a bit of fantasy.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Except what he calls fantasy, others call lies.
0:03:14 > 0:03:19Watch here. They should get thrown backwards, not forwards.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Yeah, let's see that again.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Get your actors to dress up in funny clothes and make-up by all means,
0:03:29 > 0:03:33Mr Burton, but please don't tinker with the basic laws of inertia.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40Next, The Devil Wears Prada.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42And that's Anne Hathaway picking up her early morning bagel.
0:03:43 > 0:03:49And as we now enjoy some shots of ladies in swish outfits, something very odd is happening to that bagel.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52# She's got the power to be, the power to give, the power to see
0:03:52 > 0:03:56Yeah, it's turned into a pair of brown leather gloves.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Or was I dreaming that?
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Because the bagel's back again.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04The moral here, never fully trust a bagel.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10And finally, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13or TLTWATW as I like to call it.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17Here's Mr Tumnus, famous for having hooves where his feet should be.
0:04:17 > 0:04:22But look, those hooves are leaving great big man-shaped footprints in the snow.
0:04:22 > 0:04:23Just look at 'em.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Tumnus' footprints are even more dodgy than him
0:04:30 > 0:04:33inviting a defenceless young girl into his home for dinner.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Honestly, Mr Tumnus.
0:04:37 > 0:04:44Sex And The City was that funny old time in the TV schedules when men everywhere would mysteriously find
0:04:44 > 0:04:47themselves stood in the kitchen gazing listlessly into the fridge.
0:04:47 > 0:04:54But for their better halves it was a chance to dip into the lives of four women who were spunky, kooky, sassy
0:04:54 > 0:04:57and other words that don't really mean anything.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00The characters think nothing of spending thousands on clothes and shoes
0:05:00 > 0:05:02to look their glamorous bests.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05Shame the makers of the film didn't bother to do the same.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Watch these errors.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13You have to eat a little breakfast.
0:05:13 > 0:05:14Sex And The City, the movie.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17I've loved SJP's long, long face ever since her movie debut
0:05:17 > 0:05:21in the Godfather, when she played that horse's head left in the bed.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24In this scene we've got teapot problems.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26It's Art Deco,
0:05:26 > 0:05:29then the next second it's normal.
0:05:29 > 0:05:34Then we go back to Art Deco, and you've guessed it,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37there's just time for it to go back to normal.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42The irony is that Carrie doesn't even like tea.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Her preference would be for Tizer.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49SHE SCREAMS
0:05:50 > 0:05:55Similar balls up here with the napkin in Charlotte's hand.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56It's not there.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Then it is.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01..She just got engaged. And she has been going out with the man...
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Then it's not.
0:06:04 > 0:06:05APPLAUSE
0:06:05 > 0:06:09And it's back again. Stop applauding her error, you dimwits.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14In this dressing-up scene,
0:06:14 > 0:06:18Carrie's kind but ageing friends are out on the lash.
0:06:18 > 0:06:23But when she emerges in her iconic ballet outfit, watch the door behind her.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Is it open or is it closed?
0:06:25 > 0:06:30Because it can't be both, as that would be then clopen, and that's not even a word.
0:06:35 > 0:06:41In the film Spider-Man, Peter Parker gains his powers because he's bitten by a spider,
0:06:41 > 0:06:46which apparently is a realistic way of conferring abilities. A similar thing happened to me.
0:06:46 > 0:06:51I was also recently bitten by a spider, but all it gave me were the powers of a 37-year-old man.
0:06:51 > 0:06:56And not a very good one. As well as the onset of nasal hair and a faint midlife crisis,
0:06:56 > 0:07:00it's given me the powers to pick out continuity errors in films.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Like so.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10In this scene, Peter Parker shoots a web and smashes his lamp up
0:07:10 > 0:07:11like some arachnid vandal.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13< Peter?
0:07:13 > 0:07:18- His busybody aunt comes to check. on him.- What's going on in there?
0:07:18 > 0:07:22And embarrassed by the state of his teenage bedroom, he refuses to let her in.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26- You're acting so strangely, Peter. - OK, thanks.
0:07:26 > 0:07:31But when she leaves, the lamp is back where it started.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33That mars an otherwise perfectly believable film.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Harry! >
0:07:37 > 0:07:41We're about to see an extra that loves Peter Parker so much,
0:07:41 > 0:07:45it's disturbing. Look how much she's hanging around.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47She walks past there...
0:07:47 > 0:07:51Harry says you're a science whiz. I'm something of a scientist myself.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54I read all your research on nanotechnology.
0:07:54 > 0:07:55..and there...
0:07:55 > 0:07:59- Yes, I wrote a paper on it. - Impressive.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04..and there...and there.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09Thank God she's gone. I was beginning to worry for Peter's safety.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16No, there she is! Deeply sinister extra.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18She belongs in a secure ward for stalking behaviour.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Here's Spidey and MJ swinging through New York
0:08:25 > 0:08:27like some sort of urban Tarzan and Jane.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31No wonder MJ loves him. But hang on...
0:08:34 > 0:08:37..that's clearly a lifeless mannequin.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41Look, OK, maybe mannequins dressed in Lycra are her thing. Kinky.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48We all know that newspapers never make mistakes.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49So how do we explain this?
0:08:49 > 0:08:53In the left column, there's a quote from police spokesman John Young,
0:08:53 > 0:08:55"We've heard of Good Samaritans,
0:08:55 > 0:08:58"but in 20 years, I've never seen anything like this."
0:08:58 > 0:09:01And then, on the right, he says it again.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02"We've heard of Good Samaritans,
0:09:02 > 0:09:05"but in 20 years, I've never seen anything like this."
0:09:05 > 0:09:07I don't know what to say about that, I really don't.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Although I have a fair idea of what John Young would say.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Here's a tip. Never play cards
0:09:17 > 0:09:19with James Jameson, the editor of the Daily Bugle.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Check out his sleight of hand.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Watch the third picture. Got it?
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Now see what happens when he puts it down.
0:09:29 > 0:09:34It's a different picture. Who's the real superhero in this film?
0:09:38 > 0:09:42Here's Peter being rescued by an infant.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44But what's this under her jim-jams?
0:09:44 > 0:09:48Looks like kneepads to me - the only sure fire way to stop anyone
0:09:48 > 0:09:51kneecapping you as you sleep. Clever girl.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Now for some errors that are only for the truly eagle-eyed.
0:09:57 > 0:10:02Sure, some people might say it's nerdy or geeky or sad of the team even to have spotted them.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Is it sad? Is it sad to strive for perfection in movie-making?
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Is it sad to want to enjoy that one true error-free film?
0:10:10 > 0:10:15Is it sad to rewind and replay every scene of every film you ever watch in the hope of spotting any error
0:10:15 > 0:10:20and then writing it down in your special book just to crow about it on BBC 3?
0:10:20 > 0:10:21Oh, it is?
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Right.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28BELL CHIMES
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Now then. Big Ben would only chime like this on the hour,
0:10:32 > 0:10:38but as all you sighted viewers will appreciate in this clip from sci-fi flick Jumper,
0:10:38 > 0:10:39the clock reads half past,
0:10:39 > 0:10:42which is as far from on the hour as you can get.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45I know all that because I learnt it at school!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Forrest Gump.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Listen to the day he says she died.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56'You died on a Saturday morning.'
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Saturday.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Now look at the gravestone.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02It says March 22nd, 1982...
0:11:02 > 0:11:05which as any diary fans will know was a Monday!
0:11:05 > 0:11:08Jenny's dying is very sad, Forrest,
0:11:08 > 0:11:12but lying about it won't bring her back, and believe me, I've tried.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18The Shawshank Redemption now.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20One of the all-time great movies about redemption
0:11:20 > 0:11:22and about Shawshanks, probably.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32But if this is the hole that Andy Dufresne escaped through, how can he have reattached the poster?
0:11:32 > 0:11:36If he was inside the tunnel, it would be impossible to stick the poster to the wall.
0:11:40 > 0:11:45Unless he broke back in, stuck it back up again and jumped over the wall to escape a second time.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48Yes, yes, that's probably what he did. Yeah.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57Set in 1957, this movie somehow shows us a country, Belize,
0:11:57 > 0:12:00which didn't exist until 16 years later.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02It should be called British Honduras.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09It feels wrong to have a go at Hollywood for this, though. When it comes to showbiz archaeology,
0:12:09 > 0:12:14they gave the world Indiana Jones, and we gave it Time Team. Boo.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20The same Indy film here. Set, you'll remember, in 1957.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24But have they invented digital readouts in 1957?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Our survey says...
0:12:27 > 0:12:29UH-UH!
0:12:35 > 0:12:39The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and here's one for super-nerds.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43As Cal and Dave play video games and cast aspersions
0:12:43 > 0:12:48on each other's sexuality, there's a clanger to be spotted.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50..I kind of want to get back out there, but I think I like guys...
0:12:52 > 0:12:54That's right. They're playing Mortal Kombat Deception
0:12:54 > 0:12:57and Cal's using a Nintendo 64 controller.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01But that game was only ever released on PlayStation 2,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Game Cube and X Box! Oh!
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Austrian fashionista Bruno now.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12And here he is with the latest celebrity must-have.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15TRANSLATION FROM GERMAN:
0:13:18 > 0:13:22When Bruno takes baby OJ out of the box, the subtitle reads:
0:13:27 > 0:13:30But as anyone who took GCSE German will have noticed,
0:13:30 > 0:13:32there's just been a translation gaffe.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Listen, Bruno says "vierzehn".
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Which means 14, not 13.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46Call the fashion police now.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Email subtitling@bbc.co.uk