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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

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• Miscellaneous: The glass collapsible tube that picks up Augustus has five separated sections but before it picks up Augustus it has three sections together on the top and two on the bottom.
  
  
• Continuity: When Charlie is handing bits of his Wonka bar to his family members, it can be seen that he hands his father two separate segments of the chocolate bar, however in the next scene when his father goes to take a bite of the chocolate he's been given, the two segments are still attached to one another.
  
  
• Continuity: While in the chocolate room, Mike is smashing a candy pumpkin. You see it break into three pieces before his dad comes over, however, when Mike is speaking to his dad, the pumpkin is in smithereens, and Mike is no longer standing in the pumpkin goo.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: As the sun comes up the morning after the flyers have been pasted around the city, you can see an extra start to step out (then duck back in) of the doorway just beyond the flyered pole that is in the foreground.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Willy Wonka is having his shoes polished by Charlie, the crew is reflected in his black sunglasses.
  
  
• Continuity: When the kids and their guardians are walking from the main gate to the front door, the shadow cast by the factory on the courtyard changes many times.
  
  
• Continuity: The "Golden Ticket" is placed on the back side (smooth side) of the chocolate bar before the wrapping, however, when opened, the Golden Ticket appears on the top side (the "printed side") of the bar.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the "flag room", many of the flags appear to be mirrored or upside-down, but that's because they are flying in the opposite direction of the staff than we are used to.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Augustus' home town of Düsseldorf is shown to have old-fashioned houses with wooden frames, like in a Bavarian, Austrian or Swiss town. Düsseldorf is in Nordrhein-Westfalen, where there is no such architecture. Even more so, Düsseldorf is shown to be near a huge mountain range, of which there are none even remotely to the Ruhrgebiet, which is a rather flat landscape.
  
  
• Continuity: When the chocolate castle liquefies, you can see the melted chocolate hit the princess on the face in a certain pattern and a small dab on the nose. The next time we see the princess the chocolate pattern has changed.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Salt walks in front of Wonka to go down to fetch Veruca it would not be possible because as the gate swings open it would be in Mr. Salt's way. As Wonka unlocks the gate you can see Wonka's hand opening the gate slowly and in the next scene you can hear the gate still opening, so Wonka would still have his hand on the gate which totally blocks Mr Salt's path.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Willy Wonka is eating a Caterpillar for the first time ever, his tongue is already green.
  
  
• Continuity: When Willy Wonka dips the pink ladle into the chocolate river, the chocolate is spilling over the edge of the ladle. But when he hands it to Charlie, the outside of the ladle is completely free of chocolate residue.
  
  
• Continuity: When they are showing the winners of the 3rd and 4th golden ticket winners, there are 4 shots of Charlie watching the TV. In the first and third shot, grandma Georgina's head is upward off the pillow. In the second and fourth shots, her head is resting on the pillow laying down.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Augustus is trapped by a vacuum near the top of the pipe, the seals below him begin to blow out. A vacuum doesn’t work that way, if he were blocking the pipe all the pressure would’ve been on the parts of the pipe between him and whatever was creating the vacuum.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Mike Teavee pushes the "Television Room" button in the elevator, the elevator continues downward and then takes a sharp turn to the right. However, the actors lean toward the right (toward the direction the elevator moves), rather than moving to the left as one would as a reaction to the movement.
  
  
• Continuity: When Willie goes back to see his father and the dentist examines Willie's teeth, the fingers holding the mirror completely change position between the shots from inside Willie's mouth to outside, both times. The size of the handle also changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Charlie receives the toothpaste cap from his father that is to become "the head for Willy Wonka", there is a shot of just his hand holding it up with the "hat" pointed upward. In the next shot, the toothpaste cap has turned completely upside down.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The photo in the 'Russian Ticket a Fake' article shows a group of people beside St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. However, the article text states that the boy who has "found" the Golden Ticket lives in St. Petersburg.
  
  

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