- Movie Goof (continuity error): When Sky Captain and Polly are running across the log bridge, he fires a 1911-style semiautomatic pistol at one of the birds. When he falls and drops the gun, it's the revolver he used against the robots earlier in the film.
- Movie Goof (revealing mistake): Headlines in German newspaper shown after the attack of the robots is full of errors. Main headline is "Sehr Grosse Metallic Maschinen Stehlen Stehlen Reserven" which translates to "Very Big Metallik Maschines Steal Steal Reserves". Other headline says "Schlechten Desends Nach Landscape" which means "Bad ??? On Landscape" (the word "Desends" means nothing in German). This line was probably to mean "Evil Descends to the Land" in which case it should appear as "Das Übel kommt in das Land herab". The same goes for Russian newspaper that is titled "Voice People's" and shows headline full of semantical and grammatical errors ("Gigantic Metallic Nation's Reserves Steals Machines Coal, Oil and Uranium. National Leader Attempt To Protect Reserves").
- Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): In the underwater scene where Joe's "submarine plane" is forced backwards, it makes a sound like an airplane flying through the air.
- The paint job on Joe Sullivan's plane is that of the "Flying Tigers", a group of American fighter pilots (supposedly) paid by the Chinese government to fight the Japanese in Burma. The "Tigers" themselves got the idea from RAF planes based in Africa in the early part of WW II. Joe briefly mentioned flying for them while arguing with Polly Perkins about his sabotaged plane. The Flying Tigers were revealed in 1991 to have been a "black" operation of the US Armed Forces under direct authorization by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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