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Mad Max 2 (1981) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: A reverse angle shot of Max and another man show totally different weather patterns.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After the driver-side door on the truck is ripped off, a crew member can been seen at Max's feet inside the cab.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Papagallo is shot in the leg by Humungous' goons, a wire attached to the arrow is visible momentarily.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When Papagallo is shot in the leg by Humungous' goons, the arrow used to shoot is bright red but when it hits his leg it's white and yellow.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the final chase, it's very doubtful that Humungus, even with his strength, could have thrown the spear with enough velocity to reach Pappagallo. Both vehicles were moving at essentially the same speed, and once the spear left Humungus's hand, wind resistance caused by what was likely near-100-mph speed would have pushed the spear backward immediately.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the big chase when the motorcycle rider flips end over end into a ditch, you can see a blue safety mat at the bottom of the screen. (Widescreen version only.)
  
  
• Continuity: Towards the end of the movie we see that the gyro rotors are totally bent. In the next shot, as it comes to a stop, the rotors are in perfect condition.
  
  
• Continuity: Some steel plates protecting the truck's wheels reappear after the truck has crashed.
  
  
• Continuity: During the final chase, the goons shoot out the tanker truck's rear, left-most tire (as seen from the back). In a subsequent shot, the first shot of the tanker following the gyro crash, all four rear tires are intact.
  
  
• Continuity: Wez is on the roof of the tanker spinning his chained spike-ball and Max hits the brakes. In the first shot, Wez is falling with his body turned to the right, but in the next shot, he falls with his body turned to the left.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Max hits Humungus with the truck and when the camera is in the left side of the truck, you can see the driver wearing a helmet.
  
  
• Continuity: When Max first sees the Mack that he will later drive, the left windshield is missing. Later, it's in place.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the tanker crashes in the end, the stunt driver has a helmet.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene where Max is being chased at one time he slams on his brakes, allowing one of the cars that chasing him to pass, he then hits the gas and rams the other car busting the plastic nose piece off of the Interceptor. During this scene if you watch closely there you can see the Interceptor with the smashed grill just before the impact and then with an undamaged grill after.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the Gryo Captain ambushes Max and holds him at crossbow point, he is apparently unaware that his fingers are sticking well above the string level of the weapon, and that if he were to fire it, he'd lose top half of all his fingers. Max is oblivious to this as well, or knows that the crossbow would still harm him regardless of damage done to its user.
  
  
• Continuity: In the bargaining chase scene, when the two villains cars crash one into the other, in the first shot the second car is moving but in the second shot you can clearly see that it's stopped when the first car hits.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the opening chase, after the black Ford Landau smashes the dune buggy, the roadside is clear around the "Mundi Mundi Look Out" [sic] sign. In the reverse shot, as the Landau starts to roll over, piles of debris (including the stunt ramp) can be seen near the sign.
  
  
• Continuity: When everyone is getting ready for the final chase, and the kid is taken from between the tractor and the tanker, you can see that the air brake lines are not hooked up, even though the truck is about to pull out.
  
  
• Continuity: Aero Pilot has disgusting rotting teeth throughout the movie. And the end talking to Max after truck crash and driving the bus he has normal white teeth.
  
  
• Continuity: When the gyro captain is reaching for the can of dog food that the dog is eating out of, it shows him reaching with his right hand, yet when we see the shot with the dog and the can, a left hand is seen reaching out for it. He is also holding a wooden spoon with that right hand which then is missing in the shot with the can.
  
  
• Factual errors: The gyrocopter is not like a normal helicopter and cannot land in such a confined space inside the fuel compound. It shows a closeup of the wheels when landing and it stops on a dime once the wheels touched the ground. The gyro lands like a plane and not like a helicopter.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wez leaves the road after taking an arrow to the arm, he is suddenly wearing sunglasses. Also, the Golden Youth seems to have gotten more buff.
  
  
• Continuity: After being attacked by Wez, Max rolls the Pursuit Special down a hill. When Max climbs out of the car, it looks in much better shape than it was when it came to rest.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wez wheelies his bike away from Mundi Mundi lookout, the Golden Youth (actually a female stand-in) is wearing black leather cuffs on his biceps, which he doesn't wear in any other scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the tanker and Humungus' truck collide, the background vehicles are not moving; they're merely positioned at the side of the road.
  
  
• Continuity: When Max takes Nathan back to compound, he holds up his tool belt in his right hand. The hatchet (wooden handle) is facing the camera. In the reverse shot, showing Max from behind, the hatchet is again on the camera side. The hatchet never faces away from the camera.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene, as the camera pulls "out" of the blower, the blower pulley is not turning (widescreen only). A few moments later Max shuts off the blower and the pulley stops turning (the implication being that it was running the whole time).
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Wez flips over the Quiet Man on the catwalk, the springboard can be seen briefly (all versions); as he lands, the hands of a spotter appear at the extreme left of the screen. (Widescreen only.)
  
  
• Continuity: The sky changes from cloudy to clear throughout the movie.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the dune buggy is struck by the Landau in the opening chase, it is obviously just sitting there waiting to be hit. Also, the engine has been removed.
  
  

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