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District 9 Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (continuity error): In the scenes following the escape from the MNU facility, the team hunting Wikkus is shown is from an AgustaWestland Merlin helicopter. In the next scenes the helicopter is an Aerospatiale Gazelle (the cabin shots are clearly from a Gazelle judging from the size of the interior).
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the officers and Wikus' family and friends were talking, their titles and names were placed on the screen. When one of the MNU officers were talking, they misspelled LIAISONS, spelling it LIASONS.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Wikus is taken into hospital for the first time and sees his hand turning into a "prawn's arm", he freaks out and the doctor puts a mask over his mouth and nose to administer some oxygen and holds it with his hand. When the shot changes there is a rubber band holding the mask to his head, but there is no way that the doctor could have managed to put it that way.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): Everyone has modern mobile phones. However, the movie is not actually set in the 1980s. This is the date of the aliens' arrival. The events of the film are approximately 20+ years later, and on-screen date stamps put the movie explicitly in the year 2010.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene where the MNU workers first walk up to Christopher Johnson's shack in order to evict him, the radio operator identifies the shack as "Yankee Foxtrot Five Three Zero," or YF530. However the number on the shack itself is FY530.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): On the DVD extra documentary about alien reproduction the lecturer refers to "seminal vesticles". It should be "vesicles".
Movie Goof (factual errors): RPG-7 shot which Kobus fire at lifting module can't move that slow; also it won't explode until contacting something with its front part, which didn't occur as Wikus just tried to throw it.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Wikus looks at his chest, he observes the black boils which were forming. However, in a later scene, when he is caught temporarily by the soldiers, he has a clean chest (except for the blood from other bodies on him)
Movie Goof (continuity error): After Wikus escapes from the bio lab, he is seen removing his clothing including what appear to be a pair of espadrilles. After stealing replacement clothing, his new footwear are exactly the same as those he wore during the eviction scenes.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In an early scene where the screen looks like a news broadcast screen, the temperature goes from 38 Celsius, to in the 60s Fahrenheit, down to 20 Celsius in the same scene.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Early in the film there are shots of "aliens not welcome here" signs around the city. One sign begins "These public premises an the amenities thereof..." - the "d" on "and" is missing.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Wikus walks into the Nigerian base, Obesandjo says he has a lot of guts for a white man. But the word he uses for "white man" is the Kiswahili word "mzungu". Kiswahili is widely spoken in East Africa, but not in South Africa or Nigeria.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the scene where Wikus first meets Christopher and attempts to get his signature on the Eviction Notice, the pen on Wikus' clipboard is attached with Velcro and can be seen switching from parallel to angled and back again several times between shots.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When Wikus is first admitted to hospital and is having his arm checked, it is quite clear that he has a hairy chest under his vest. Afterwards, he is seen with his shirt off and is hairless. Because the surgeons are planning on opening his chest to remove his heart, it is likely that his chest was shaved in preparation for the procedure. Another reason may be, due to the changes his body is undertaking (fingernails falling off, etc.), his hair may have fallen out.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): SPOILER: Early in the film, we are told that people cut a hole to force their way into the spaceship. (The spaceship is thought to therefore no longer be space-worthy for Christopher's voyage at the end of the film.) However, the full mechanization of the space craft is unknown, and the affected area could be sealed off from the rest of the ship.