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• Continuity: When the Joker first dehydrates a guinea-pig, water appears in his backpack. In the next shot, it's empty again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt doubles for Batman and Robin on the Batcycle.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt doubles for Penguin, Joker & Riddler when Bruce Wayne is attacked in Kitka's apartment. Actually, obvious double for Riddler during any fight sequence.
  
  

• Continuity: During the fight on the submarine, each henchman (and The Joker) is knocked into the water, only to reappear a little later, dry - and then get knocked overboard again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Batman forces the submarine to surface (right before the batfight) the sub is (naturally) wet. However, when the Batboat pulls along side moments later, everything is dry as a bone.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Riddler, Penguin, and Catwoman dehydrate some of their pirate flunkies, The Riddler can sometimes be heard laughing even though his mouth isn't moving.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the final fight scene on the deck of the sub, wrinkles are visible on the sky backdrop.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Penguin is swinging on his umbrella to attack Batman during the final fight, Batman can be seen swinging at a flunkie. Unfortunately there is no one there to hit.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the Batman/Robin boat scene where they are attempting to find finger prints, Robin claims they are the only ones on the ocean. However moments before if you look in the background some sort of vessel moves by.
  
  
• Continuity: As the Batcopter approaches a yacht, Robin takes a device to get a bearing on the vessel, in the interior copter scenes. But in exterior shots during the same sequence, Robin is obviously not holding the device.
  
  
• Continuity: While traveling with the Penguin in the Batmobile, the background road is wide, with highway stripes, and not along the coastline. But exterior shots show the car on a narrow, no-striped road along the coastline.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Wrinkles on the sky backdrop are visible when Robin and Batman arrive at the buoy.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When we first see the Batcopter being pulled from the hangar, the whole camera crew and their equipment is reflected in the glass of the copter.
  
  
• Continuity: When Batman and Robin drive the Batmobile onto the dock to reach the Batboat, they leave their car facing out to sea. When they return to the vehicle (after the buoy attack) the Batmobile is facing back towards land.
  
  
• Continuity: When Robin is handing Batman the shark repellent, the distance between the two of them changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The dehydrated members of the security council were of different sizes of sand when they were dehydrated. However, when Batman & Robin rehydrate them - all the sand is of equal volume. It changes back to unequal when they are in their chairs at the UN building.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Robin climbs down to Batman to help him fight off the shark, the rope which moves it is visible.
  
  
• Continuity: During close-up shots of Batman and Robin in the BatBoat, the red beacon behind them is not operating. The long shots show the beacon operating normally.
  
  
• Continuity: When sliding down the batpole at the boat dock, Robin's utility belt disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Riddler launches a Polaris missile at the Batboat and Batman looks at the missile through a pair of binoculars, the word "Polaris" on the side of the missile is backwards (flipped shot).
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the movie, when Batman and Robin re-hydrate the UN Council members, the test tubes and stands on their seats disappear.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Bat-Copter flies over the roof with the girls in bikinis waving, the shadow is from a Bell Ranger helicopter (the camera aircraft) rather than the Bell 47G that the Bat-Copter is made from.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Batman uses the steam-powered Batpole lift, you can see the cable which pulls the lift upwards.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the Riddler is hitting all the switches to launch the missile from the submarine, he misses one.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the press conference following Batman's fight with the shark, Batman replies to a reporter's question about the yacht by saying, "Nonsense - how can a yacht simply disappear?" Discussing the yacht in the next scene at the Batcave, he says to Robin, "As you, yourself, stated, a yacht simply can't disappear." Batman credits Robin with saying something at the conference he actually said.
  
  
• Continuity: While Batman is wrestling the Shark on the Bat Ladder, he attaches his bat radio to his utility belt. As he is kicking the Shark, the Radio falls off, presumably into the ocean, but we see it used in many shots thereafter.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Batman is being lowered into the ocean a shark attacks his leg. When Robin in the Batcopter pulls both Batman and the shark up out of the water, the shark has gallons of water pouring out the back of it where there must have been a large hole.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening credits there is a flipped shot of Robin where the "R" on his costume is backwards.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Batman and Robin take off in the Bat boat for the first time, the spinning rotors from the camera helicopter become visible and stay there for a while until the helicopter catches up with them and the camera pans back down.
  
  
• Continuity: The Bat Ladder is seen coiled up under the Bat Copter en route to the yacht in the opening. However, when the copter takes off from the airport, nothing is seen under the Bat Copter.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Batman and Robin are climbing up the wall, you can see the strings used to hold their capes up, as the scene is clearly a rotated shot of the duo walking horizontally. Although this has been widely regarded as a mistake, the special edition DVD commentary with Adam West and Burt Ward explains that it was done purposely to have some fun for the adult audience.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the fight scene on the submarine, a large wrench is used first by one of the henchmen, then by Batman. It is obviously made of rubber or plastic as it bends as it swishes through the air. Also when it lands on the deck of the submarine it is slightly curled. If it were metal it would not have flexed in this manner.
  
  
• Factual errors: Early in the film, Batman establishes that the US Navy sold a surplus pre-atomic submarine to the Penguin. Later, we see this submarine firing a Polaris missile. Pre-atomic (e.g., diesel) submarines were not equipped to fire Polaris missiles.
  
  
• Continuity: When Batman and Robin arrive at the docks there is a sign that says "Moby Dick". When they get back to the Batmobile the sign is gone.
  
  

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