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• Continuity: When Johnny English and Bough are attacked by Vendetta in the underground car park, he runs for cover behind a concrete pillar after he fired the first round of shots. In this pillar we see the hole created by the impact of a bullet, before Bough has started to return fire towards him.
  
  
• Anachronisms: At the end of the movie, newsreader Trevor McDonald says that Sauverge was charged with "high treason", a crime "still punishable with the death penalty under UK law". On 31 July 1998, high treason and piracy with violence ceased to be capital crimes. On 27 January 1999, the Home Secretary (Jack Straw) formally signed the 6th protocol of the European Convention of Human Rights in Strasbourg, on behalf of the British government formally abolishing the death penalty in the UK.
  
  
• Continuity: The name of Douglas McFerran's character is clearly given in dialogue as Klaus Vendetta. But when the credits come up, his first name has changed to Carlos.
  
  

• Continuity: When Bough and English are in the cemetery, Bough takes the gun away from English and holds it in his hand while he escorts him out of the cemetery. In the next shot, the gun is no longer in Bough's hand and is nowhere to be found.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the sushi bar, Lorna feeds Johnny a thin, small gray fish and calls it "sea urchin." Actual sea urchin looks like a slightly squat dark ball covered with spines. What is served as sea urchin at sushi bars is the roe of the animal, which has the appearance of a grainy, yellow-orange mass. It is typically presented on top of a small ball of sushi rice, and the whole thing encircled by a strip of dried seaweed.
  
  
• Errors in geography: After Johnny English has accidentally landed in the hospital, a sign behind him points towards "Orthopedics". UK hospitals use the British spelling of "Orthopaedics".
  
  
• Continuity: Johnny English's picture is taken by a traffic control camera during the car and hearse chase. The date on the picture is 21 March 2003. This chase takes place before the Queen's abdication. The letter of abdication is dated 20 March 2003.
  
  
• Continuity: In the shot at the end, when Lorna falls in the pool, Bough straightens. In the next shot, when Lorna surfaces, he straightens again.
  
  
• Plot holes: At the end of the movie Trevor McDonald announces "the Queen has bestowed a knighthood on the un-named secret service agent..." but then when Lorna falls in the pool, Boff is reading a newspaper that says "knighthood for hero English".
  
  
• Factual errors: During the movie, the discs that Sauvage owns are said to be DVDs. However, the light green-blue color, indicates that the disks are CDs and not DVDs (which would be purplish).
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the hearse chase, a camera and cameraman is visible in the car door of the hearse when the hearse goes round a corner. The camera man is crouching on the pavement.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At the end when Johnny drives the Aston (with Lorna in) to the cliff, there is a far-out shot where clearly no-one is around, but on a close-up shot of the side of the car before it parks, a crew member in a white T-shirt can be seen reflected in the car door.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the chasing scene, the Aston lands on a trailer. When Johnny wants to get off the trailer he has to drive backwards off the trailer, thus putting the car in reverse. After starting the engine of the Aston, the next shot shows the Aston backing out from the trailer. But the indicators for the gearbox being in reverse are off.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Johnny English is being lowered from the car transporter in the chase scene, the oncoming Fiat bushes underneath the Aston Martin causing all four wheels to rotate. This would only be possible if the car was in Neutral gear, but it is not as when he selects reverse to back off the trailer he moves the gear selector backwards from park to reverse. Hence only the front two wheels would rotate as being a rear wheel drive in park gear, the gearbox and rear wheels would be locked and have no free rotation.
  
  
• Continuity: During the car chase, the bad guys look behind them and say "Those idiots are right behind us...faster!" and the car behind them is red. But then when the hearse speeds up, it's silver, and when the hearse turns at the corner, it's blue.
  
  
• Continuity: Lorna's hair when she first meets and talks to Johnny English in the Tower. A strand of hair is undecided whether to rest on her brow or above.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The letter of abdication given to the Queen gives her title as "Elizabeth the second, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British dominions...." The Queen is monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is now a separate sovereign state, the head of state of which is the President of Ireland.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The tattoo bearing the words "JESUS IS COMING, LOOK BUSY" on the buttocks of the fake archbishop of Canterbury is clearly not real: the letter N in COMING is blurred because of the man's sweat.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When the crowning ceremony of Pascal Sauvage was televised live around the world, the Australians (who live on the opposite side of the world to Britain) are watching the crowning ceremony during the day. If the crowning took place during the day in Britain, then the live telecast will be seen by Australians at least in the late hours of the night or at the earliest, in the early hours of the morning.
  
  
• Continuity: When climbing the ladder to Sauvage's castle, a tattoo is visible at the base of Natalie Imbruglia's back. At the fight scene in the Abbey for Sauvage's crowning the stunt double falls to the floor and the tattoo is missing.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Johnny English was swinging on the rope with the royal crown during the ceremony, you hear him say, "Never in the million years." But you take a closer look at his mouth, he doesn't actually say it.
  
  
• Plot holes: Why are Klein and Vendetta still in the garage next to the Tower of London the following morning? It would seem prudent to make a very quick getaway indeed after stealing the Crown Jewels.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The is absolutely no geographical consistency to the hearse chase, with consecutive shots frequently depicting the vehicles in completely different areas of London.
  
  

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