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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• 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.
  
  
• Continuity: After Mike Teavee gets shrunk by the TV ray, Willy Wonka orders him and his father to the taffy puller room. Immediately afterward, Wonka has a very short conversation with Charlie and Grandpa Joe, they get into the elevator, and blast through the roof. They then fly down over the factory entrance, where Mike Teavee is already stretched and leaving the building, just 2-3 minutes after Wonka had given the taffy-pulling order.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The news clippings covering the wall of Wilbur Wonka's office show that he has closely followed his son's entire career. Yet when Willy shows up at his door, Wilbur doesn't recognize him.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene in the Nut Sorting Room Veruca stands with her hands on the railing in front of her. There are a matched pair of shots over her shoulders where her hands are clearly visible. (The shots approximate to Willy Wonka's and Mr Salt's Points of View.) In the shot over Veruca's right shoulder the gap at the side of the gate is clearly seen between her resting hands hands. In the reverse angle over her left shoulder the handrail is unbroken.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Mike Teavee says: "First off, there's a difference between waves and particles!". Actually there is not. All energy and matter express the so called wave-particle duality, where they can be regarded both as particles and as waves. Someone as science-oriented as Mike Teavee should be aware that this has been known since 1924. He most likely meant "There is a difference between energy and matter" which much more relevant in this situation in that energy can easily be transmitted while matter cannot, which is what makes Willy Wonka's television camera so amazing.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During one of Willy's flashbacks as a child, he has braces which keep his lips from meeting, however his voice properly makes a "p" sound when he says words such as "pieces."
  
  
• Continuity: When Willy is having his teeth examined near the end of the film, the view from inside his mouth shows his lower teeth being examined, but the next shot, looking into his mouth shows his father just turning the mirror over, having just looked at his upper teeth.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the scenes where the news vans are outside the golden ticket winners homes... the truck outside of Mike Teevee in Colorado has the wrong call letters. They start with the letter "W". They should start with "K" for a TV station west of the Mississippi. Also, the live truck in front of Violet's home in Atlanta has call letters beginning with a "K" instead of "W". While this is most often true, there are a few cases of call letters starting with "K" in the eastern US. Examples: Philadelphia's CBS station, KYW and in Pittsburgh, KDKA.
  
  
• Plot holes: It is stated numerous times that no one ever goes in or out of the factory. We later learn that those helping run the factory are Oompa Loompas, about 2-3 feet tall. However, when the group riding bicycles exits the factory at night to put posters up about the tickets, the group are normal sized adults and the movie offers no explanation as to why/how they came out of the factory or even where they went after they were done putting up posters as they are never seen again.
  
  
• Continuity: The adult Willy Wonka has blue eyes and the young Willy Wonka has dark brown eyes.
  
  

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