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Zoolander (2001) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Derek and his roommates are driving around drinking the Orange Mocha Frappucinos, the cups are unmarked, but the cup blown towards the camera by the explosion has a Starbuck's logo.
  
  
• Continuity: When Derek is forced to hide out at Hansel's place, Hansel's blue circular necklace jumps about between shots.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Hansel and Derek are in Maury's office trying to get the files in the computer, Derek says that they will be no better than the machine. When he says this, his mouth is closed.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the VH1 Fashion Awards, when Derek is walking up to get 'his' award, Hansel says, "Huh?" but his mouth doesn't move.
  
  
• Continuity: The number of buttons on Derek's PJs that are not buttoned.
  
  
• Continuity: When Zoolander is walking in the graveyard with the famous hand model, they pass the same tombstone twice.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mugatu is explaining to Derek why he wants him to campaign for him, Todd brings him a large coffee. Mugatu spits it out, with no foam mustache, and for a second a foam mustache appears. After Derek's surprised look, it disappears again.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Derek finishes talking to Matilda on the Walkie Talkie in Maury's office he turned "left" to go back to helping Hansel look for the computer files. A large premise of the movie is that Zoolander is unable to turn "left".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Derek is being interviewed before the Male Model of the Year Awards, the flashes of the photographers can be seen reflecting off the background/other people, yet when the camera *shows* the photographers with their cameras, the flashes of light do not come from the cameras themselves, but rather from above.
  
  
• Continuity: When Matilda pulls her car into pier 12, you see a building across from the day spa. However, when she goes to open the door, there is water instead of the building.
  
  
• Factual errors: The shots of the rallies in Malaysia seem to show banners displaying Chinese text, while the Prime Minister's platform shows English and Arabic text. All of these are highly unlikely in the real Malaysia itself. The national and dominant political language of Malaysia is Malay, and is written in Romanized text due to Malaysia's past as a British colony.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Derrick's friends are having the "gasoline fight", the bright orange liquid coming out of the gasoline nozzles is obviously not gasoline.
  
  
• Continuity: When Matilda and Derek are on their way to the cemetery, there is a big car behind them. When they are on their way back to Hansel's place, the same car is driving behind them.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Derek, Matlida and Hansel drink tea at the Hansel's place, Matilda reveals that she was fat kid in 7th grade. After that, Hansel moves his lips, but no sound is heard.
  
  
• Continuity: In the end of the movie, when Mugatu says he will kill the Malaysian prime minister himself, you see him reach for the "M" on his shirt. The camera zooms out and you see him reach for it again.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: Katinka gets up off the runway twice after getting taken down; once after Matilda rejoins and praises Derek for saving the prime minister, and again after Derek and Matilda kiss.
  
  

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