Episode 7 Great Movie Mistakes

Welcome along to Great Movie Mistakes.

This show blows a hole in the carefully-constructed veneer of Hollywood perfection.

Our team of continuity experts, or geeks, have locked themselves away in the archives

to track down the best howlers on the silver screen.

So, here are those mistakes - the ones that have made all that hard work very nearly worthwhile.

First up, the haunting majesty of Mamma Mia.

In Lay All Your Love On Me, Sophie looks

to be wearing a very pretty swimsuit.

But in this shot, she's ruined the look

with a pair of black trousers. See?

I don't know what these guys are up to.

Remember, viable embryos.

We'll never know when dinosaurs became extinct,

but we can pinpoint the exact moment that this brown bag ceases to exist.

It just disappears.

Here's Nedry, greedily clutching it like it's a packet of biscuits.

But, hang on, in the blink of an eye, it's gone.

Maybe that's what happened to the dinosaurs -

they were just manhandled by a fat bloke and vanished. Who knows?

# Ramses is the one. He puts the people all on fire! #

Wrestling-based chuckleshow Nacho Libre next.

Watch Stephen being pulled into the hole by the fat lady,

see how she knocks down the plant pot,

but wait, there it is standing up again.

Stephen!

And, lo and behold, there it is fallen over again.

This is for marring an otherwise perfect take.

If you're down with the kids like me,

you will know that Zac Efron's the shizzle,

and here he is in 17 Again.

See that lectern?

OK, settle down, everybody, take your seats. Thank you.

Well, only moments later,

it's gone as Zac tries to forcefully make love to this guy.

At least get his consent, Zac!

Who likes watching films? Yeah!

Who likes reading books?

Boo! As we all know, reading books is rubbish.

So, three cheers for Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

He saved us all the bother by putting every last bit of the books

into three butt-numbingly long films.

He really didn't leave anything out.

Needless to say, the movies, which back-to-back are almost 7 billion hours long,

do contain the odd mistake.

Here, big-eared idiots Merry and Pippin

set off an enormous firework indoors

in the first film, Fellowship Of The Ring.

But setting off a firework indoors wasn't the biggest gaffe in this scene.

Notice that the tent is full of bread rolls, candles, barrels and all manner of things. But watch.

When the firework launches, taking the tent with it, you can see all of the things inside the tent,

with the exception of Merry and Pippin, have disappeared. See?

Now that's magic!

This is from the next film, The Two Towers. And more hobbit horrors.

Look at the hobbit on Gandalf's lap.

He's a fully-grown adult who happens to be short.

I believe they're called midgets.

But keep your eyes peeled.

Look, suddenly he's not a midget, it is a child.

Your helmet doesn't fool me, short stuff.

For Frodo.

Same in this one. The hobbits charge at the enemy.

It's always the little ones, isn't it? Watch them run.

They're children, clear as day.

Looks like they've spotted an ice-cream van.

Children are rubbish in battle - this could get messy.

Hollywood film-makers are often high school drop-outs. And it shows.

The names of the Batman sequels - Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman And Robin -

weren't chosen for sounding good, but because the director didn't know how to count to four.

Similarly, Tarantino's title, Inglourious Basterds,

was a genuine spelling mistake that Quentin now has to pretend was clever and intentional.

These people are imbeciles, or imbreciles as Tarantino would probably say.

Just check out these schoolboy errors.

How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. First scene, and there's a mistake.

Look how they've spelt "lose".

What makes this especially galling is that the same word appears in the title of the film. Divs.

More problems with spelling now in Blades Of Glory.

The guy doing the talking is the commissioner.

Yet his name badge has "commissioner"

spelt with only one S.

Yet another movie brought to its knees by the power of words.

I'm going to pop you in the back of the head!

They said I was a valued customer. Now they send me hate mail.

The boffins behind Confessions Of A Shopaholic

are so clever, they've given us a number we didn't know existed.

How are you going to pay off 16,000,1262 dollars and 70 cents?

Er... 16,000,1200?

I like this clip so much, I've watched it 800,6000 times.

There again, we Brits are no better.

Look at the side of this bus - the word Cheltenham is missing an N.

And when people miss out Ns, it makes me very, very AGRY.

Thanks.

This clip is of John Nash winning a Nobel prize

in the film A Beautiful Mind.

But look, they can't even spell Nobel properly.

Oh, boy.

Not good, ladies and gentlemen. Not good.

As well as being highly entertaining,

this programme aims to be educational.

The Terminator now, and look as he scans this doorman.

The Terminator must have been programmed by an imbecile,

because look how he spells the word "briefs".

I before E, big guy.

Remember this simple rule and you won't go far wrong.

All right, the singing is nothing.

A way to keep my nerves down. It means nothing to me.

But it's not I before E if they follow a C.

Then it's the other way round.

Look how "receiving" is spelt in this clip from High School Musical.

I can't help thinking that if American school kids spent less time singing

and more time on basic literacy, there might be a lot less gun crime.

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