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D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)

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• Continuity: After the press conference, Coach Bombay and Tibbles discuss the Iceland coach. Behind them, Averman and Hall walk off the platform. When Coach Bombay and Tibbles move on, Conway, Gaffney, and Wu move into the same spot and behind them, Averman and Hall walk off the platform again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tibbles is handing out jerseys he gives Coach Bombay Mendoza's jersey. Then Mendoza gets the Mendoza jersey.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Fulton is taking his shot in the final shootout, he stops and then shoots the puck. In hockey, you are not allowed to stop while taking a penalty shot and the puck must always be moving forward or else the shot is over.
  
  

• Factual errors: Wu mentions that he can do a triple arial, in figure skating there is no jump named "an arial".
  
  
• Factual errors: Ken Wu has supposedly been an Olympic figure skater, but he would be only 12 or 13 years old in this movie. The minimum age for Olympic figure skaters is 15.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Adam Banks comes into the locker room before the big Iceland game and tells Coach Bombay "I woke up and the pain was gone," you can see Connie mouthing his lines behind him.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the end of the movie we see a flying "v" of a flock of birds. The birds flying are actually geese although you can hear ducks quacking.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Throughout the "sold out" game at the Anaheim Pond there are numerous empty seats in the upper level and many cardboard cut-outs in the crowd. They don't move and their faces are pure white, they are very easy to see.
  
  
• Factual errors: Icelandic last names are very simple, consisting of the father's name plus either "sson" if the child is a boy, or "dottir" if the child is a girl, but almost none of the Icelandic skaters have last names that could actually exist in the Icelandic language
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Olympia (a Zamboni knock-off) crashes into the rink, the smoke rising from the bottom is coming from a very, very visible smoke machine.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When The Ducks play the first game against Iceland, they call Adam, Captain Adam Banks, but Adam isn't the team captain, Charlie is.
  
  
• Continuity: Nearing the end of the second period of Team USA's first game against Iceland, the score is shown at 5-0. Iceland scores one more goal before the period ends. Then at what is intended to be the start of the third period the scoreboard shows the a 4-0 score and that it is the start of the second period. shows a score of 4-0.
  
  
• Continuity: When Coach Bombay is scolding the team and Mr.Tibbles is jumping in with his whistle, Adam Banks moves from out of the team line to in the line to out the line again.
  
  
• Continuity: In the game when Ms. MacKay is coaching, they show a shot of the game, and you can clearly see Charlie, Number 96, playing in the game. When they cut back to the bench, Charlie is next to Ms. McKay, telling her how to call a line switch.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mendoza is on a breakaway, he goes from being left handed to right handed between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bombay burns the cardboard cutout, Banks is wearing a sling even though it isn't until a little later that Bombay discovers he is injured.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dwyane Robertson ropes the Icelandic player, Fulton and Portman are in the penalty box. After he ropes him, Portman and Averman give each other high fives.
  
  
• Factual errors: A hockey team for Trinidad and Tobago appears in this movie, wearing multi-coloured tie dyed uniforms and playing steelpans when goals are scored. The national colours of Trinidad and Tobago are red, white and black.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the games between USA and Iceland, both teams are wearing dark jerseys. In hockey, one team always wears dark (blue, black, green, etc), while the other wears white.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After a practice, a fog machine is clearly visible when three players from Team USA break through the wall with the Zamboni.
  
  
• Continuity: Many time during the hockey games, players go off the bench, but no-one comes on the bench in their place, putting too many players on the ice.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first game scene against Trinidad and Tobago, the camera pans across the registration area by the ice. We hear the announcer talking about the game, and he says the score is 6-0, but the score board seen above the ice reads 7-0.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the Flying V is broken up by Iceland in the finals, the announcer says "a four-on-none break for Iceland" when five players are clearly visible.
  
  
• Factual errors: Numerous times during the film, the Duck players are on the bench without helmets. At this age, helmets would have been required to remain on at all times, or the team receives a bench minor penalty.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gordon returns to the Ducks with the duck call, Jesse, Charlie, and Folton are all on the ice preparing for a face off. When called over to the bench, more players appear to have left the bench and gone on the ice.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The newspaper article that reveals the result of the USA/Trinidad match contains three repeated paragraphs of text about disputes in planning applications, not a review of the match.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the final game against Iceland, Russ Tyler is being pinned against the boards by three Iceland players. The next shot shows three other players on the open ice, then the three on Russ again. Each team can only have five players on the ice at a time use goalie.
  
  
• Continuity: During the shootout in the final game, Jesse Hall is shown as being left handed, then right handed for one shot, then left handed again.
  
  
• Continuity: On the Duck's third goal in the finals versus Iceland, the announcer says Wu's name as he passes and they score. In the next scene showing the bench, Wu is clearly shown cheering.
  
  
• Continuity: Right when the camera is zooming in on the Trinidad game you can hear the announcer say the score is "six to nothing" but if you look at the scoreboard, it says seven to nothing. The announcer is actually correct. During the game Team U.S.A. scores three times and the final score is 9-2. If the score had been seven at the start the score would have been 10-2.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: After the US team changes their jerseys in the final game, Fulton Reed's jersey says "Fulton" instead of "Reed"
  
  
• Factual errors: When team U.S.A play the Italian national team, the Italians are wearing a green uniform, when in fact the Italian ice hockey team's jersey and national color is actually blue.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: At the start of the period were the ducks have changed uniforms if you look closely at the clock it reads 00:00 with no score but a few seconds later you see time on the clock with the scores back up.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Luis Mendoza scores in the last period, after he stops and snowplows the goalie in the face, you can see that his foot is in the crease. If the teams were playing under standard rules the goal wouldn't have counted.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the shootout scene, with the score 3-3, Adam Banks is closing in on the goalie to make a shot. He makes two dekes and you can see the player go to make a third. He misses bringing the puck back for a third deke, but shoots it in the goal anyway.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: At the end of the third period in the second game against Iceland, Russ Tyler is revealed as the goalie in a switch with Goldberg when he takes off his helmet. However, in youth hockey, regardless of whether in the US or international, he would never have been allowed to take his helmet off on the ice.
  
  

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