Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (continuity error): When Ben finds his seat on the airplane, there is already a passenger in the aisle seat and window seat. When he plops down into his seat in between, the window passenger is missing. In the next shot she is back in her seat.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Victor Von Doom lands his helicopter and gets out, it shows a clip where the blades on the helicopter are moving slow. A few seconds later, you see another clip in which the blades are going a lot faster. Then, after the Silver Surfer comes out of the crater, the blades have completely stopped.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When the power fails in the city, a workman's jackhammer stops suddenly. Jackhammers are powered by compressed air. Even when the compressor stops, there is enough residual pressure in the lines to keep the hammer going until it slows to a stop as the pressure runs out.
Movie Goof (continuity error): As Von Doom lands his helicopter on the slab of ice to meet the Silver Surfer, the helicopter points toward the left side of the screen, but a few moments later, after the cut scene to the hole, the helicopter is seen pointing towards the right side of the screen. Another cut to the hole and back, the copter is back to facing the left. Also watch the speed of the rotors. As Von Doom initially leaves the chopper, the blades can be seen rotating slowly. When the Silver Surfer later rises out of the hole, the blades have sped up considerably.
Movie Goof (factual errors): During the opening sequence, when the Silver Surfer freezes the ocean, the logo displayed on the boat is of the "Maritime Self-Defense Force" (a Sun disc with 16 rays on a white field) of the Japanese flag instead of the single red disc "Hinomaru" version for civil boats.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): When setting up the machines for the tachyon pulse in the Black Forest in Germany, Thing comes across a bear which is in fact a grizzly. The grizzly is native to North America, and only occasionally found in Europe, certainly not in Germany's Black Forest.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Johnny throws beer over the dart board to extinguish the flames it is seen stained, but is then seen completely clean seconds later in the next shot.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the beginning at the airport on the news channel, the anchor woman talks about Reed and Sue's wedding, and it shows a picture of Reed and Sue, Sue has brown eyes in the picture. They also show the same picture of Sue and Reed on the front page of the newspaper.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the team boards the plane in the beginning, they are shown on a double-aisle wide body jet. Yet when we see the plane take off, it is shown as a Boeing 737, a single-aisle narrow body jet.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the Fantastic Four members see the short recording of Victor Von Doom's encounter with the Silver Surfer, Sue stands up twice.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): Whenever Ben turns into the Thing, his voice changes as a result of the change. Johnny's voice does not change at all when he temporarily adopts Ben's powers. However, since this "science" is make-believe, it can do whatever the writers decide.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): There is no sound in space, but effects added for dramatic effect to entertain the audience.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): During the first aerial shot of Sue and Reed's wedding you can see the shadow of the helicopter used to film this shot. The shadow is different from the helicopter in shot because it has the spherical shaped camera on the front.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): The helicopter that brings Dr. Doom to the glacier (for his first meeting with the Surfer) is heard to have the classic "rotor chop" sound. Yet the rear rotor is shown to be enclosed, a design which eliminates the "chop-chop" sound.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): While Johnny's being examined after interchanging powers with Susan, we can see two incorrectly positioned radiographs on the wall: a posteroanterior chest view that's flipped horizontally, and a simple abdominal one that's flipped vertically.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When the Silver Surfer goes by the wedding in New York, the helicopter hovering nearby is shown to lose all electrical power. This in turn causes the helicopter to crash. The helicopter shown is powered by a turbine engine, which is self-sustaining once running, and does not require electrical power of any sort. Also, the systems are operated with mechanical hydraulic pumps, or simply mechanically, so that flight controls are still operable even when all electrical power is gone.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): Fantastic Four established that only the F4's suits (having been exposed to the space-cloud's radiation) can accommodate their abilities. However, in this movie, all clothing of Mr. Fantastic's elongates with his body. Being a great inventor, he could have made extra clothes to suit his abilities.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): In the scene where the Fantastic Four are hugging after Silver Surfer defeats Galactus, Johnny hugs Sue in one shot. But in the next shot, it shows Reed/Mr Fantastic releasing a hug from Johnny.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): During Reed and Johnny's "let's have a bachelor party" conversation scene in the lab, one of the shots is a mirror image (identifiable by reversed text on one of the book covers on the desk.) It is a flipped shot of him pushing away from the desk on the other side later in the scene.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Johnny is in the kitchen talking to Ben before the wedding, he is not wearing his tux jacket and you can see he only has a t-shirt on under his dress shirt. Yet when he leaps off the building to chase after the Surfer, his clothes burn off and he is wearing his Fantastic Four outfit/costume, which was clearly not wearing under his tux.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): SPOILER: The wedding at the end is a Japanese ceremony, although they were in Hong Kong.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): SPOILER: During the final battle between the Fantastic 4 and Victor Von Doom in southeast Asia, the scenery constantly switches between the cities of Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.