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• Continuity: Prince Achmed's pants (but not his boxers) are torn when he storms out of the palace yet immediately after this Raja has a piece of Prince Achmed's boxers (but not his pants) in his mouth.
  
  
• Continuity: The Sultan's cummerbund and feather keep changing colour from blue to grey and back, and the gem on his turban frequently changes colour.
  
  
• Continuity: The Sultan's blue diamond, which is on his left ring finger, doesn't appear until a few seconds before Jafar asks for it.
  
  

• Continuity: The flower in Jasmine's hair is on the wrong side when reflected in the stream.
  
  
• Continuity: While Jafar has Jasmine enchained, she wears a snake bracelet on her right arm. After Jasmine attempts to steal Jafar's staff, Jafar knocks her to the ground, and the bracelet can briefly be seen on her left arm. In following scenes it returns to her right arm.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gazeem is in the desert and pulls the beetle-shaped charm out of his pocket, the inside curve is concave and dips into the piece. When he holds the same piece up to match it with the other half, the connection section now comes outward to fit into the other piece.
  
  
• Continuity: The patch on the right leg of Aladdin's pants keeps appearing and disappearing.
  
  
• Continuity: While pole vaulting across rooftops with Aladdin, the Princess' hair falls free from her wrap and the wrap is around her shoulders. Upon landing her hair is neatly tucked under the wrap around her head.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jasmine climbs the wall of the palace to leave, her tiger helps her up and we see her trouser leg. But a close-up of her foot shows her shoe and bare leg.
  
  
• Continuity: The merchant that catches Jasmine stealing has hands so large that they completely obscure hers. In the close-up of him putting her hand on the chopping block, his hand is considerably smaller.
  
  
• Continuity: The shadow of the window bars falling on Aladdin in the dungeon changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: In the "A Whole New World" number, the carpet picks a flower off a window sill for Aladdin to give to Jasmine. As the carpet reaches for the flower, there are only three flowers on the pot, but in the close-up there are at least twice as many.
  
  
• Continuity: After Aladdin stops the merchant from chopping off Jasmine's hand, he gives the sword to Jasmine, who hides it behind her back. In the very next scene she no longer has the sword, and there is no sign of it in later shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Iago, disguised as a flamingo, calls out to Aladdin as Jasmine, he attracts the attention of a dopey-looking flamingo behind him. However, that flamingo was not there in the long shot of the garden that directly preceded the medium shot of the disguised Iago.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the "Whole New World" music sequence, we can see Aladdin and Jasmine descending down on their magic carpet, and we can hear Jasmine singing, "A Whole New World," but her mouth is not moving. This is right after she sings "Through an endless diamond sky..."
  
  
• Continuity: When the guards are after Aladdin and Jasmine, Aladdin holds out his right hand and asks Jasmine "Do you trust me?" Jasmine accepts his right hand, but in the next shot, Jasmine is holding Aladdin's left hand.
  
  
• Continuity: While in the Cave of Wonders, Abu is seen jumping back and forth on the exploding stones. Before he is rescued by Aladdin, all the stones have exploded except the one he's on. When Aladdin pulls him up, there are two more stones on his right, when in the last shot there were none.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Cave of Wonders sequence, Abu's hat disappears for a second.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Cave of Wonders sequence, Jafar (disguised as a beggar) pulls a knife on Aladdin after the latter gives him the lamp. But after Abu bites Jafar's arm, and Aladdin falls into the cave along with Abu, the knife is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: After "A Whole New World" when they are watching a Chinese dragon, Jasmine discovers Ali is the boy from the market and takes his hat. When she grabs his hat she squeezes it and the lamp is not there, but once dropped off at the palace when Ali is thrown into the ocean, the lamp pops out of his hat.
  
  
• Continuity: Jafar's Snake Staff is constantly changing lengths from about 2 feet to about 4 feet when he is resting it on the floor.
  
  
• Continuity: When Aladdin is transformed to Prince Ali, the reflection in the mirror shows the arm held up on the wrong side.
  
  
• Continuity: When on the balcony right before 'A Whole New World', Aladdin offers his hand out for Jasmine to grab. His arm is bare, which shows most of the forearm. In the previous and following shots, Aladdin is in his Prince Ali suit, which extends all the way to his wrists.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jasmine is pretending to be under the Genie's spell towards the end of the movie she gets up and puts the crown Jafar made, on her head. Later when Jafar sees Aladdin reflected in the crown he knocks her to the ground, when she hits the ground and looks up, the crown is not on the floor around her as if it fell off.
  
  
• Continuity: During "A Whole New World" scene, when Jasmine pets the horse, the flower on her head seems to disappear. Not until when they are flying over the water does the flower return.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "Prince Ali" scene when Aladdin arrives in Agrabah at the Sultan's Palace, Jafar can be seen trying to keep Aladdin out by holding the front door closed. When Aladdin's elephant pushes the door open, we see Jafar being smashed into the wall behind the door. Then the scene cuts away to Jafar pushing the door away from his face, however, Iago is clearly smashed into the wall beside him despite not being around Jafar just seconds before the door flew open.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "Prince Ali" scene when Aladdin arrives in Agrabah, as Genie appears on the balcony with the three women who are admiring Aladdin the shadow of Aladdin in the procession on the wall underneath them shows that they are on Aladdin's right-hand side. When the shot cuts to the close-up of Aladdin (where Genie gives him more muscles) Aladdin is looking to his left and Genie's magic bolt arrives from Aladdin's left.
  
  
• Continuity: During "A Whole New World" we first see a full moon, at the end of the song the water reflects a crescent moon.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jafar and Iago first walk up to their hidden chamber, Jafar pulls the string on a lantern and the door opens from left to right. However, when Jasmine is confronting Jafar about the apparent 'sentencing' of Aladdin, Jafar is seen opening the door the opposite way (from right to left) in order to sneak out.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Aladdin ducks into the window of the tower as it rolls over him and off the cliff, you see through the tower and clearly see that it is completely hollow. So how was Aladdin held in the tower as it was shot away from Agrabah?
  
  
• Continuity: Immediately after Aladdin decides not to free Genie, he upsets Abu (in elephant form) and Carpet, who then disappear from a window's view. In doing so, they pass behind a decorative perforation pattern which borders the window, but it is not possible to see them through the holes.
  
  
• Continuity: During the second scene, where Jafar is chasing the beetle shaped charm, he can clearly be seen holding the reins of his horse with both hands, with his staff no where in sight. However, after he reaches the Cave of Wonders, he can be seen holding it in his right hand.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Although the scroll appears to be Arabic, the Sultan and Jafar's eyes move from left to right as they read it, not right to left as they should have.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The Cave of Wonders warns Aladdin not to touch anything except for the lamp. However, while in the Cave itself, Aladdin and Abu touch the carpet and nothing happens.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Princess Jasmine releases the birds they are not colored in white - just the outlines of them are shown. (This mistake was fixed on the 2-disc special edition DVD.)
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The Cave of Wonders says that only one may enter (and that one is Aladdin), however Aladdin enters the cave with Abu (the monkey), and so the rule does not apply to animals. Jafar could easily have sent Iago (the parrot) into the cave to get the lamp.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the Genie, in his first scene, is dressed as a waiter writing on a piece of paper, the writing appears to be Arabic but he is writing left-to-right when it should be right-to-left.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: After Jafar is turned into a genie and his "wishes" undo themselves, Rajah, Abu, Carpet and the Sultan return to how they were before Jafar started making wishes. Jasmine, however, returns to her original harem trousers and crop top outfit, and not to the purple dress she was wearing for the announcement.
  
  

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