Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (continuity error): When they leave America, it is the middle of the day. They arrive in Egypt at the same time as they left, yet it is the middle of the day there too. Egypt is 8 hours ahead of New York, so it should be evening when they arrive.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the Autobots finally catch up to Jetfire, if you watch closely, the tire marks in the grass were already there.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When the team is jumping out of their aircraft into what should be the desolate Egyptian desert, a full modern two runway airstrip can be seen as they exit the rear of the aircraft.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): Very loud Decepticon meteorites crash down and explode by the pyramids in the distance, but the man in the foreground with the camels shows no reaction.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When Sam's mom eats the cannabis brownie she gets high in what seems like 5 or 10 minutes. The director's commentary and deleted scenes reveal that more time has elapsed than that but is not shown on screen in order to move the story forward.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): When Jetfire is reactivated at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, he blasts open a hangar door and steps outside. The exterior shot shows him and the other protagonists in the "bone yard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): During the F-16 air strike, several of the F-16's are Thunderbirds, painted red, white, and blue. Although these are used for air shows, they are maintained in a fully combat-ready state (except for the paint scheme and the addition of a smoke generator) and could readily be pressed into service in a time of emergency.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): Near the end of the movie when Sam and Mikaela are running towards Prime, on the last Airstrike, when they drop the large bomb, at least one viewer thinks an explosion/reflection can be seen over Mikaela but not Sam, a compositing error. This is not possible - this shot was a "practical effect" in which the explosion was actually set off behind the actors, and according to the cast it set the world record for the largest special effects explosion performed with actors on set.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Sam and Mikaela are running from the Decepticon, Sam shouts "go Megan go" as they jump into the car.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Sam Witwicky drops his papers on the college steps, 3 people on the right are walking behind him. When the shot changes, the same 3 people are further back, just getting to the steps.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Mikaela and Sam are running through the desert. They are being shot at; explosions going off around them; they jump and fall off buildings that explodes and collapses around them and when everything is over, Sam's clothes are in rags and pieces and he is burned, scarred and bloody. Meanwhile Mikaela, who has gone through the same ordeal as Sam, looks like she's just left the make-up chair.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the final scenes in the desert, Mikaela's bracelets often switch between her left and right hands.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Mikaela runs into the library, she is wearing high-heeled shoes. When she jumps down from the upper level of the library, she is wearing black flats.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): According to the creators of the film, the Constructicons are a legion of robots with one of seven body types. This is why Long Haul (Green Dump Truck), Rampage (Bulldozer), Scrapper (Yellow Scoop Loader) and Mixmaster (Cement Mixer) can fight Bumblebee's group, while also seemingly being part of Devastator at the same time.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): At the end of the first film, the robot that hacks into Air Force One is killed by his own weapon, cutting his head in half. In this film, the head is in the freezer in Simmon's secret room, in a glass case, fully intact. Simmons could have repaired the head as a trophy.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When Sam and Mikaela are driving away from the college with the robot-girl on the hood, Mikaela slams the car into a pole and drives away. The airbags do not deploy. Air bags do not deploy 100% of the time. Moments later, Megatron drops the car into a warehouse. The airbags deploy because the impact was much greater.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): While flying over the desert, you can see a pilot inside Starscream. In previous shots (the 3 riders on the motorcycles) and in the previous movie, Transformers often use "digital pilots" to enhance their disguise. Although the digital pilot would not really work since Starscream has a bunch of tattoos, it could just be a "default" setting to display the pilot when in jet mode.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Starscream begins his attack on Sam and the Autobots in Egypt by firing missiles, the actual plane in the scene is dropping flares.
Movie Goof (factual errors): After Starscream deploys the EMP and the soldiers lose communication, MQ-1 Predators are ordered to be launched. The airframe that takes off is an MQ-9 Reaper, not a Predator.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When the Transformers are in robot form, their paint jobs are chipped, scratched and weathered. When they are vehicles, the same paint is super-glossy and waxed with no blemishes. However, it could be possible that they use the same hologram system that they use to create fake drivers.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): In a few scenes in the movie, the USAF characters are at a military base in New Jersey, with a desert-like environment and mountains in the distance. New Jersey does not have a desert or big mountains.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): In the beginning, a Union Pacific and a Missouri Pacific lettered coal hopper are on the Port of Shanghai China rail line.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When we see Mikaela for the first time (on the motorcycle, painting a devil on the side), she is lying forward on the bike, leaning over the right side. When the shot changes, she is leaning over the left side of the bike.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): As the car dropped into the warehouse tips forward and lands on its roof, the camera mounted to the right side of the car (to capture the shot of the airbags inflating) is briefly visible.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): The short Egyptian soldier at the checkpoint is an army head, a very high rank that only 5 men hold.
Movie Goof (continuity error): After Devastator has ripped off the top of the pyramid, Agent Simmons gives coordinates to a US Navy aircraft carrier. Simmons is supposed to be on the same pyramid, but you can clearly see the same pyramid in the background without any damage.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Sam runs into the car to escape the college girl who turns into a robot, she sticks her 'metal tongue' through the windshield, smashing the window on Sam's side and leaving a jagged edge. In the next shot, the window is fixed (a new whole window). As they drive away, the window has been cut away cleanly, with no jagged edges.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When Soundwave orders the Decepticons to mobilize, a shot of 4 robots flying to earth is the exact same shot of the Autobots coming to earth from Transformers. Although it is the same shot, more falling protoforms have been added in the background to give the impression of mass invasion.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): The Air Force character Epps was a Technical Sergeant in the first movie and is a Chief Master Sergeant in the "Revenge of the Fallen" which takes place two years later. It is plausible that he was able to make rank that quickly as he did help to save the world from the invading Decepticons in the first Transformers movie.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When the Decepticon calls Sam's mother in Paris, you can clearly see that her cell phone is a Sprint cell phone. Sprint phones use a CDMA network, and no CDMA networks operate in France. A Sprint cell phone would never get a signal in Paris.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the scene where Sam, Mikaela, and Leo enter the deli to meet "Robo Warrior" the time on the Neon clock in the background changes dramatically almost every time they change shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): At the start of the film, Sam's mother's hair s blonde, with brown roots. In the next scene at college, her hair is reddish-brown.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the climactic battle in the desert, Sam, Mikkeala, Lennox, and Epps run from the building as the bombs are explode. As Ironhide emerges from the smoke, his left arm cannon clearly falls off as he runs. When the Fallen arrives and knocks all the Autobots over taking the Matrix of leadership off Optimus Prime, Ironhide has both arm cannons intact.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the Autobots are in the hangar, and Optimus Prime is doing his report to the general, director Galloway interrupts them and talks about their weaponry. The scene repeats at the end, when he asks if the Autobots would leave the planet peacefully.
Movie Goof (factual errors): During the CGI scenes showing the Predator UAV, it shows the UAV as having a jet engine. When in fact Predator UAV's have propellers.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): The border crossing scene from Egypt to Jordan is impossible. You must cross through Israel to get from Egypt to Jordan by land.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): When a H-53 picks up Sam and Mikela they are on the East Coast in close-ups, but a wide shot shows San Diego in the background, including the Coronado Bay Bridge and the USS Midway.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Mikaela is putting the bandage on Sam's hand, the wind shot shows her crouching and then getting up. The next shot she is crouching again.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When the Decepticons attack Paris, red and blue lights are seen through the streets. Parisian police lights are just blue.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Agent Simmons asks Wheelie where to find the older Transformers, Wheelie shows them by pointing lasers at a map of the United States. Simmons says "The closest one is in Washington," and they go to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. However, none of the lasers actually pointed at Washington, D.C.; the closest one pointed to eastern New Jersey.
Movie Goof (factual errors): The flag patch on Major Lennox's right shoulder have stars on the left side. Army regs state that the stars should be forward.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): During Sam and Mikaela's first phone conversation, you can clearly see a large Fresnel light on a stand in Sam's room.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Galloway declares that NEST is being disbanded, he literally strips Major Lennox of his rank insignia. In the next scene, Lennox is wearing the oak leaf cluster again.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When the pyramid eating robot is throwing rubble on the Sphinx, in the foreground, there are pigeons on the nose of the sphinx. This is not a mistake as that is actual footage of the sphinx as noted in the director's commentary.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): A group of F-16 fighters flying in formation bank off to engage the Decepticons. Inexplicably, they each launch flares, a decoy for heat-seeking missiles, as they break formation. (This is likely because it's stock footage of F-16s on maneuvers.)
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): According to the Secretary of Defense in the first movie there were no survivors from the base attack in Quatar. In this movie Glenn Morshower (SOCCENT Colonel Sharp) returns and is now General Morshower. As indicated by the different name, this is an entirely different character from the one who died in Quatar, so it's perfectly understandable that he is alive.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): Only one Pyramid in Giza, the Pyramid of Khafre, has a smooth top. The machine to harvest Energon is hidden in that pyramid, and the whole fight takes place there. You can see the smooth top when Devastator is climbing the Pyramid. However, every shot is taken on the Pyramid of Khufu. For example, when agent Simmons is climbing the Khufu Pyramid, Khafre, which he should be climbing, is visible in the back.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): None of the Transformers transform in the same manner twice, or transform in the same manner as they did in the first movie. ILM deliberately animated the transformations uniquely so that the movements could follow smoothly from the character's actions, such as Bumblebee emerging from the garage at the start of the movie. It can be taken for granted that these Transformers, unlike those in the cartoon, can vary their transformation.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When Skids and Mudflap enter the military hangar to upgrade from the ice cream truck, they get to choose between becoming a Chevy Beat and a Chevy Trax. Skids chooses the Chevy Beat, which already has his name on the license plate. However, given the lower intelligence of these two robots the military may have already had their names on the plates in order to avoid the fight the happened anyway (the fight of who was going to be what car).
Movie Goof (errors in geography): An establishing shot shows Manhattan. The very next shot shows two Transformers on top of a building in Downtown Los Angeles; the Aon Center and US Bank Tower are clearly visible.