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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995):
Near the end of the film, Vincent Cadby (Simon Callow) is playing chess in the "room of death" as Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) confronts him. Right after Ace says, "Can you feel that, Captain Compost?", the chess pieces magically disappear from the board.
Addicted To Love (1997):
There's a scene towards the end of the movie where Anton (Tchéky Karyo) is in a body cast with dowels holding his arms up. During the fight with Sam (Matthew Broderick), the dowels snap in two, leaving half in the body part of the cast and half in the arm. As they are resting from the fight, the camera pans back and forth between them as they talk. The dowel is in 2 pieces, then one big piece sticking out of the body, then back in two again. Greg Burr reports he got the biggest laugh when he first saw this.
Airplane! (1980):
In a movie from inside the warped minds of the ZAZ (Zucker/Abrahms/Zucker) team, most apparent flubs are actually deliberate, placed within the film for humorous purposes. However, there is an apparent flub during Ted Striker's (Robert Hays) flashback to the bar where he first met Elaine Dickenson (Julie Haggerty). Before approaching Elaine on the dance floor, Ted tosses away his hat, which boomerangs back and hits the bartender. On the floor, he tosses away his jacket, which also boomerangs back and lands on his shoulder. Look to the left of the screen and you'll see the arm of a crew member throwing the jacket back.
And here's another point to ponder - Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen) tells Elaine that everybody on the plane who ate fish will become violently ill within one half-hour. However, Mrs. Hammen (Lee Bryant) twice mentions that she ordered and ate fish, but she never gets sick. She must have had the one unspoiled piece in the bunch.
Aladdin (1992):
Not even the meticulous art of animation is safe from slip-ups. In the beginning of the film, Gazim (voice: T. Daniel Hofstedt) has brought half of a bug-shaped charm to Jafar (v: Jonathan Freeman). When Iago (v: Gilbert Gottfried) snatches the charm, it has a notch in it. However, when he drops it in Jafar's hand, it's the half with the nib in it, and Jafar pulls the half with the notch from under his shirt. A case of switcheroo?
When Prince Achmed (v: Hofstedt) storms out of the Sultan's palace, the seat of his red pants has been ripped out, revealing unripped pink underwear with a red heart design. However, when the Sultan (v: Douglas Seale) goes out to see Jasimine, Rajah (v: Aaron Blaise) has a torn piece of underwear in his mouth, not torn pants.
While we're on the topic of the Aladdin movies, let's discuss it's two made-for-video sequels, The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves. First, a glaring film-to-films continuity flub. At the end of the first film, the Genie's (v: Robin Williams) wrist shackles fall off after he's freed from the lamp. In both videos, the shackles are firmly back in place, even though he's still free. A new fashion statement? And, in Jafar, when Aladdin (v: Scott Weinger), Jasimine (v: Linda Larkin) and Iago are singing "Forget About Love", Aladdin is wearing his prince's outfit, but immediately after he's back in his old "street rat" outfit. When did he change?
Aliens (1986):
When Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) first fires the pulse rifle, it is at a 6-armed alien. Chris points out that only the Queen Alien had that amount of appendeges.
The American President (1995):
There's a rare thing here: an inside joke that, in all likelihood, was completely unintentional. When Senior Domestic Policy Adviser Lewis Rothschild (Michael J. Fox) argues with President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas), Chief of Staff A. J. MacInerney (Martin Sheen) cuts in with, "The President doesn't answer to you, Lewis!" Lewis' reply: "Oh, yes he does, A.J. - I'm a citizen!" Fox is a native of Canada, and does not hold American citizenship.
Amistad (1997):
In one scene, some of the slaves who commandeer the Amistad take the ship's lifeboat to shore to get some fresh water. On the way to the shore, each side of the boat's stern reads "LA AMISTAD" in upper-case letters. On the way back, however, the lettering reads "La Amistad," with only the first letter of each word capitalized. Josh Martin uncovered the rewrite.
Anaconda (1997):
After the boat gets stuck on the sand bar and the falling tree supposedly frees it, the film runs in reverse to make it look like the boat is backing away. Ozz in San Antonio noticed that the waterfall is flowing uphill while the boat backs up.
Animal Crackers (1930):
The second movie starring the Marx Brothers features Groucho Marx's most famous entrance - as the great African explorer Captain Spaulding. He enters a party being thrown in his honor by Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) sitting in a covered sedan chair borne by four African natives. They set him down in front of Mrs. Rittenhouse - then, due to a poor editing cut, he appears to stand up twice in quick succession. Of course, filmmaking was still pretty new then, so it's understandable that something like this could happen. However, a slip is a slip, and so it makes the page.
As Good As it Gets (1997):
In the scene where Carol Connelly (Helen Hunt) goes to see Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) to tell him that she will not sleep with him, she gets a really interesting wet t-shirt. It is blatently obvious that she is not wearing a bra as she steps off the elevator. However, when she leaves his door, a bra is clearly visible. Bruce Gordon speculates that she decided not to show her back without brastraps.
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997):
When Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley) gives Austin Powers (Mike Myers) dental equipment, the box of floss is black in long shots and white in the close-ups.
And when Austin confronts Dr. Evil (Myers) in Evil's "war room", Dr. Evil passes by the fireplace twice.
Kerri Wallace found something faulty with the equipment at the Ministry Of Defense. After Austin is thawed out, he's strapped to an upright gurney and attached to all sorts of wires and electrodes. When Vanessa comes into the room, the electrodes detach from his ears a couple times, then reattach themselves.
The slip-spotting team of Tie and Dave found an anachronism, as well. According to the film, Austin froze himself in 1967. When he gets thawed out in 1997, Vanessa tells him that his private plane has been waiting for him at the airport since he froze himself. The plane is a Boeing 747, which wasn't in use until 1969 or 1970. Was Austin testing out a protoype?
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