25 Mistakes Disney And Pixar Made

25 continuity mess ups in Disney and Pixar movies

Walt Disney Animation Studios calls itself a maker of 'Stories that transcends generations' on its official website. A sprawling catalogue of covers from 'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' to 'Frozen II' meet the eye and stretch across the eclectic webpage. Pixar Animation Studios paints a slightly more demure picture with a splash of blue, white and its hallmark font designed by Carol Twombly. Both establishments are flagbearers of excellence in their own right.

A continuity mistake occurs when the visual, conceptual or temporal consistency of a narrative gets disrupted. While continuity mistakes can have different magnitudes of consequences for the narrative world in which they occur, they're usually more or less innocuous. Changed positions of objects, disappearances, shadows facing in the wrong direction and discrepancies in colours are just some examples of what can go wrong in some classic continuity mistakes. Animation films are no exception to this common occurrence and because they are shot over multiple weeks in several stages, an error or two is likely to slip through the editors' lens.

Disney and its subsidiary Pixar have been delighting audiences with eclectic animation projects for decades. Hallmark franchises like Toy Story, Cars, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo/Dory have just as many continuity discrepancies as projects like Coco, The Good Dinosaur, Lion King, Inside Out, WALL-E, Tangled, Frozen and Brave. This video outlines their nature while addressing the noteworthy elements of production that most of them entail. Despite these errors, this topic takes a look at the overall accomplishment these films boast of.

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Written by: Roma M.
Narrated by: Grant Kellett @Gtalkstoomuch
Edited by: Temo L.

[lordvenjix]

Despite the care and attention put into a Pixar production, mistakes do make their way into the final product. Usually they are simple errors in editing that appear in every film.

For Example, objects subtly being in different places in every shot.

[katanddawg]

I have to disagree with The Lion King "continuity error" as you wouldn't just fall straight to the ground and stay in that exact spot if a herd of buffalo was stampeding through a gorge. He was likely caught on the top of the buffalo or on their horns, stomped on, kicked, pushed, and tumbled to his ending position under the tree branch. We don't see him hit the ground, so that is clearly a rational explanation.

[smokemeakipper]

10:47
Not to like be a smart arse, but that's probably a crocodile as alligators don't live in Australia. I only picked up on this because they are my favourite animals, but yeah, doesn't really matter anyway.

[lordvenjix]

No matter how many artists shape an animated film, some mistakes, and unresolved questions always make it through inspection.

[endlessedgar]

4:40 To be fair, it's possible that Mufasa was ragdolled by the stampede.

[johnerwin]

Finally, a video that isn't a jumble of previous videos smashed together...
Edit to add: now I need a video about Disney's relationship with shoes.

[TaskForce_]

While watching the movies we don't see the Easter Eggs or the mistakes that have been made by the movie but only YouTubers like Screen Rant make us know about those. 😘

[famousscreen]

I usually never see any mistakes when I watch a movie for the first time. Only the second time I am able to find something 😀

[davidzea-smith]

3:26 "... children's anthem"
Me: LOL!

[pedrosantsaver]

Must've made this in the morning, because boy is this a stretch

[sdcraig]

All this reminds us of is the sheer volume of great animated movies been made by Pixar / Disney.

[wicked]

There a part in frozen where Anna calls kristoff. Christopher and he corrects her and says it’s Kristof but when they meet they never formally introduce each other she never said her name and he never said his name even when she went into the barn while he was singing she just basically told them how we got to go to the North Mountain there are no introductions I’m going to assume that there was a scene that was cut that would show them introducing themselves.but you know. Lol

[SuperRangerGuy]

the reason that happens is because all Disney / Pixar movies scenes are done separately until it's brought back together in a sequential order to make the story work that's why you get continuity issues in those movies.

[bwilliamsadhd]

If Buzz glowed in the dark then he should be glowing in all the night/dark space scenes in the movies not just once bc I don’t think glow in the dark runs on batteries

[imogenmcmahon]

These videos always change my thoughts on the movies in good and bad ways

[sebbray]

Did I just hear screen rant give hate to film theory. Due to its Up movie amount of balloons episode.

[elimccary]

I think it funny how they are talking about errors in movies when they made an error with the toy story drawer the pointed at the drawer above the drawer they are talking about.

[Anna_Lindlau]

bolt is one of my fav movies ever its so cute :)

[anakawyker]

For the incredibles one, I always thought his sister messed up his hair

[domination]

Film theory showed up would have token 100 million balloons and cost over 5 million to get and fill