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Mamma Mia! (2008) More at IMDb Pro »

• Continuity: During the scene above the 'old goat's house' in which Donna is singing Mamma Mia, the amount of dust/dirt on the knees of her dungarees changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Chiquitita number, the amount of liquid in the glass that Tanya brings to the scene changes between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Donna is repairing the shutter with a cordless drill, there is not a bit in chuck, so there's no way it could "repair" the shutter. The empty chuck is visible in subsequent scenes with the same drill.
  
  

• Continuity: During the dancing scene on the beach, there is what appears to be a decanter and an ice bucket on the bar. These objects change position when the camera angle has changed.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "Does your Mother Know" dance scene at the beach bar, a dancer in the background is suddenly wearing sunglasses in one shot, they are gone on the next shot of her, and then she's wearing them again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the "Chiquitita" number, when Donna's friends are cheering her up, they force a beverage to Donna's lips. Though Meryl Streep acts to be choking on the drink, the liquid actually never gets beyond the bottom half of the glass.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene on the boat when 'Our Last Summer' is being sung, Sophie is seen sat next to Bill holding a picture of him in her hands. However it is Bill's hand holding the photo in the close-up shot of the picture.
  
  
• Continuity: When Donna is repairing the dolphin mosaic with the caulking gun, the tip breaks off of the tube. In subsequent shots, the tip is unbroken.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During one song an extra is up a ladder and has the ladder pulled out from underneath him leaving him hanging from the window ledge. When the angle changes to a close up of him the safety wire can be seen going out of his clothes and up into the window.
  
  
• Continuity: On the way up to the goat house, the upper left sleeve of Harry's shirt has some sort of stain (looks like an oil or sweat stain) on it. In the following shots, the stain is gone.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the orchestra begins after the initial verse during Colin Firth's "our Last Summer", the chords he plays on the guitar don't match the music.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: In the scene when Sam is proposing to Donna, before she sings "I Do", you can clearly see the prompt screen reflected in Rosie’s glasses.
  
  

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