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Beauty and the Beast (1991) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Gaston tries to kiss Belle, and she opens the door, Gaston goes flying out into the mud in front of the house. But Belle's front door is on the side of the porch, not facing the mud.
  
  
• Continuity: When Belle first enters the dungeon, her father is holding out his arm through one of the middle spaces in the cell door. In the close up shot, his arm is protruding from the left hand space.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mrs. Potts runs over Cogsworth to serve Maurice tea, she, Chip, a sugar cup and cream cup are on the cart. However, when it stops by the chair, it's just her and Chip. Then, a few shots later, as Maurice is saying hello to Chip, a spoon is on the tray.
  
  

• Continuity: During the "Kill the Beast" song, the snow on the porch caps disappears and re-appears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Right before Gaston starts singing "Kill the Beast" when he is talking to the villagers the numbers change from a small number to a large crowd in between shots. Also, they move from far away to up close and all around.
  
  
• Continuity: During the opening song, as Belle walks through the town reading her book, her basket disappears from her arm, only to re-appear a few seconds later.
  
  
• Continuity: After the Gaston song, the bear rug moves from behind the chair to under the chair.
  
  
• Continuity: After Gaston shoots the bird, LeFou puts it in his hunting bag, but his bag disappears as he goes to pick up the larger carcass.
  
  
• Continuity: Gaston's chair disappears from in front of the fire in the closing shots of Gaston's song.
  
  
• Continuity: When Belle's father is about to be taken away to the asylum, Belle's white apron disappears for a few moments, and then reappears seconds later.
  
  
• Continuity: After Gaston has shot the beast, the arrows in the quiver on his back disappear and then reappear in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Le Fou is chasing the "dog" he is missing a shoe, which is in the dog's mouth, but when Le Fou and his buddies bust through the door his shoe is on. When they get scared away his shoe is missing again.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Before Gaston attempts to propose to Belle, he kicks off his boots. But while he is walking around the house, distinct footsteps and jingles are heard, implying he has boots on.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the fighting scene between Gaston and Beast, Gaston says "Belle is mine!" But his mouth is saying something else. This is because, he was originally supposed to say, "Time to die!" but the writer changed it to fit Belle back in the scene.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Following Belle's title song reprise on the hilltop and just after Phillipe interrupts her moment, she says "Phillipe!" though her lip movements suggest that other dialogue was intended.
  
  
• Continuity: When the beast slams the door to the west wing in anger of Belle's refusal to come out of her room, a piece of celing plaster falls on Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Mrs. Potts, scattering pieces about the place. In the next overhead shot, all of the plaster is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Cogsworth falls down the stairs, all sorts of gears and nuts fall out, but in the next shot, seconds later, they are gone.
  
  
• Continuity: In the shot of Belle riding up to the Beast's castle for the first time, her hood is down. In the close-up shot immediately following it, her hood is up.
  
  
• Continuity: On the Special Edition, at exactly one hour and three minutes, just for a second, Mrs. Potts' eyes turn black and then turn back to blue.
  
  
• Continuity: When Belle is first greeted by Lumiere he takes her hand and kisses it. As the shots go back and forth you will see the flame on his candle is lit in one scene and not in another.
  
  
• Continuity: When Belle and the Beast are having breakfast together, before the beast catches the spoon his face is dirty. When he catches the spoon his face is clean, and when he tries to eat with the spoon his face becomes dirty again. Finally, when he eats right from the plate, as Belle does, his face is clean again.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In the opening musical number we see Belle's home. The windmill on the house has 2 gears that are clearly working against one another, yet they still turn perfectly.
  
  
• Continuity: Belle's nails disappear and reappear several times throughout the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: In one scene during the Gaston song, Gaston shoots his gun 3 times, but in the next scene 5 holes appear.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Beast transforms back to his human form, we see the camera focus to his feet being transformed back to a human foot, then for a split-second we can see the beast's hands still on their 'beast' form. This was considered a mistake because his hands transformed first.
  
  
• Plot holes: During "Be Our Guest," Lumière reveals how long ago the curse began: "Ten years we've been rusting." At the very start of the film, we're told that the rose will bloom until the Prince's twenty-first year. That means he was only eleven when the enchantress came to his castle and he refused to let her stay. The stained glass image during this scene shows him to be older than that. The shredded painting in the West Wing also depicts an adult version of the Prince, not the eleven-year-old boy he would have been (though some would argue that the man in the painting could be his father). In addition, how old are Mrs. Potts and her son, Chip, actually supposed to be? Chip sounds younger than ten years (at most, an eight-year-old), and Mrs. Potts looks and sounds a bit past her child-bearing years.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the first song, we see Belle sitting by a fountain, reading her book. She flicks to a page with a picture. Later, Gaston picks up the book, scans through it and say's "Gaston: How can you read this? There's no pictures!" Belle replies, "Well, some people use their imaginations," even though we just saw her look at a picture. (Which also shows her and the beast hidden in it.)
  
  
• Plot holes: Sometime after the opening number, Phillipe abandons Maurice in the woods, sometime before Maurice finds the castle. Later, Phillipe is able to direct Belle to the castle. This makes no sense because he had never been to the castle prior to this. Maurice, on the other hand, returns to the village midway through the film and somehow gets lost trying to return to the castle, even though he had been there before. Later, Gaston and his henchmen have no trouble finding the castle, even though they've never been there (Gaston does, however, have the magic mirror). Perhaps the biggest error of all is the fact that none of the villagers seem to have seen or heard of this "hidden" kingdom, which sits on a bluff on top of a mountain, overlooking the village.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie before Belle starts singing, you can see the steps go down and lead to a path heading to the village. Although when Gaston comes to purpose to her, the steps go down to a path to the barn. Later when Gaston and others come to take Maurice to the asylum it faces straight to the village.
  
  
• Continuity: In the song Gaston when Gaston sings "when I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs, every morning to help me get large" he grabs the eggs and swallows them whole. Lafou attempts the same to only have them fall on his face. After he says "so I'm roughly the size of a barge!" and shoots his gun you can see a bowl of eggs on the counter.
  
  

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