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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Obi-Wan is climbing out of his starfighter on Geonosis we see R4's head (dome) facing the front of the ship and then rotate left. The next cut, R4's head (dome) is facing forward again, and repeats the motion rotating left a second time.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anakin is talking to Padme before going off in search of his mother on Tatooine the positions of their shadows change between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anakin is talking to his mother just before she dies, the amount of sweat on his face changes between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: On clone ship following Count Dooku, Obi-wan wants to fire at Count Dooku's speeder but the ship's command reports that the ship is out of rockets. However when camera cuts to Obi-wan with wing in background 4 rockets are under the wing
  
  
• Continuity: In all the "Arrival to Geonosis" scenes, the planet is surrounded by nothing but the asteroid field. When Count Dooku retreats from the world, several Trade Federation Droid Control Ships have mysteriously appeared as well.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Padme falls from the ship Dooku shot, she can be heard screaming, but her lips do not move.
  
  
• Continuity: When Obi-Wan, Anakin and Padme are chasing after Count Dooku on Geonosis, Dooku's escorts shoot at them. Padme falls from the ship holding her gun, but in the wide shot, there is no gun to be seen.
  
  
• Continuity: When Obi-Wan talks to Yoda about who might have erased Kamino from the Jedi Archives, Yoda is instructing Younglings in sabre technique. In one shot an alien Youngling appears in the back of the class, in the next, he's in front of the class. When the shot re-establishes, the alien is once again in the back of the class.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Obi Wan sends the message for help to Anakin and Amidala, Amidala says she is going to Geonosis to "help Obi Wan", though her lip movement indicates she is going to "save Obi Wan."
  
  
• Continuity: When a Clone Trooper finds Padme after she has fallen out of the gunship on Geonosis, she tells him to get a transport ready so they can follow Anakin and Obi-Wan to Dooku's hangar. There's no way she could have know they were going there; she was unconscious when they did.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At several points in the movie, characters are missing reflections and shadows.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The antenna on Jango Fett's helmet switches sides during his fight with Obi-wan Kenobi.
  
  
• Continuity: Kneeling over her decoy, Padme's hair is on both sides of her shoulders. When she stands up, her hair is all on one side.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The space traffic seen in the window of Palpatine's office repeats itself exactly during every scene, day or night.
  
  
• Continuity: When Padme is packing for her trip to Naboo, at one point she is in her closet holding a red garment. A moment later, when she places it in her case, it has changed color to blue.
  
  
• Continuity: The spinning display in the background of the Lars family's workshop is inconsistently placed between cuts.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Anakin is talking to Padme on the red couch his profile shows his mouth is moving, but he says nothing.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the fireplace conversation, in one of the "over-Anakin's-shoulder" shots, Anakin stops talking, but we see him say another line.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anakin and Padme are in the tunnel at Geonosis, Anakin stops Padme with his right hand, but in the next shot, he's holding her back with his left hand.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Anakin and Padme arrive on Geonosis they enter the underground factories. A steel door opens above them and Padme ducks to enter. However when Anakin follows he does not duck enough and his head passes through the digitally created metal door.
  
  
• Continuity: While in the arena on Geonosis, when Mace Windu is fighting the droids, his under tunic of his Jedi Garb is overlaying to his right. Shortly after, just after beheading Jango Fett, the tunic is overlaying to his left.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Padme and Anakin are in the field on Naboo talking to one another, Padme says, "I went into public service," but her lip movement doesn't match what she says.
  
  
• Continuity: The three antennae on the back of the yellow speeder disappear briefly as Anakin catches Obi-Wan when he falls from the drone.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Flipped shot: When Anakin is stalking Zam in the bar, before she attacks Obi-Wan, his plaited hair is on the left side of his head in one shot.
  
  
• Continuity: As Anakin chases Zam through the crowd, the same shot of him passing by a column (he shoulders by it as he passes) is played twice.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anakin is with his mother in the Tusken camp, and she is giving her "I'm so proud of you" speech, the position of her hand on his face changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Ki-Adi-Mundi's lightsaber switches from blue to green when the Republic Gunships land. Once the camera focuses back to Ki-Adi-Mundi, the lightsaber turns back into blue.
  
  
• Continuity: As clone ships fly away from the arena, the last ship loads its missiles. When it is reloading you can clearly see droids on the field. In the next shot with R2D2 and C3PO there are no droids on the field.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Obi-Wan is talking to Jango and Boba in their "apartment", Obi-Wan pauses. He's not moving and you can see the back of his head. When Jango walks behind Obi-Wan on the screen, you can see Jango's "shadow" through Obi-Wan.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the underground factory fight in Geonosis, Anakin's light saber tip gets tangled with his cape, and he tries for a brief second to take it off.
  
  
• Continuity: When Obi Wan sends the message for help to Anakin and Amidala, Amidala presses a red button in order to transmit the message to the Jedi council. A minute later she presses the same red button in order to view a map of a galaxy, without first doing anything which might be expected to change the function of the button. There have been some desperate attempts to explain this one away, but we don't buy it.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anakin fights Dooku with his and Obi-Wan's lightsabers, the blades change hands as soon as the fight starts.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The thumping sounds of the creature's feet in the arena are frequently unsynchronized throughout the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When Obi-Wan Kenobi grabs the provoking stick from the Geonosian and holds it to fend off the acklay, he holds it in the middle. In one shot, however, the stick is then shown being held towards the tip.
  
  
• Continuity: During the tour of the Kaminoan cloning facility, there are several shots that appear to have been flipped. The giveaway is that Obi-Wan kimono overlays on the left instead of the right, and his lightsaber hilt is hanging from the left instead of the right.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During Yoda's fight with Count Dooku, you hear the sound of lightsabers intersecting when they aren't.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Near the end of the movie, Count Dooku uses the force to pull the ceiling down on Yoda. When Yoda uses the force to stop the rocks and push them away, a very large piece of rock smashes against the wall without making a sound.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the arena scene when the monsters are approaching, Obi-Wan tells Anakin to "Concentrate". His lips are actually saying the original line, which was "You take the one on the left, I'll take the one on the right". This line was present in the media screenings but changed for the theatrical release.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Yoda is about to leave the meeting, right after the assassination of the queen we can see that he still is in front of his chair, even though he is moving for several seconds.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: During the light-saber battle with Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Dooku, Obi-wan is slashed by Dooku and falls to the floor. Dooku raises his saber to kill him. Anakin dives in and blocks his saber. In the wide shot, not only is Obi-Wan not anywhere to be seen, he almost immediately, THROWS his saber to Anakin. Neither Dooku or Anakin had moved yet. Obi-Wan should have been able to just hand his saber up to Anakin.
  
  

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