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• Revealing mistakes: When Siegfried's car is driving away from the Disney Hall at the end of the movie, the car drives over a bridge, but the background images when the camera is on the inside of the movie do not match. First they are on a street in an area that looks like an industrial zone, then on a camera change they are on the middle of the bridge, but when the camera switches back they are driving through a neighborhood full of houses.
  
  
• Continuity: When Siegfried is kicked out of the car on the bridge, the door flies off with him. However, when the camera switches to back in the car, the door reappears on the car.
  
  
• Continuity: After Agent 99 and Max go through the storm drain, Agent 99 takes off her shoes. However, after they both get through the lasers and Agent 99 is fighting, she suddenly has her shoes back on although she didn't carry them with her through the lasers.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double when Smart bursts through the building in the vehicle.
  
  
• Continuity: Agent 99's white suit gets dirty after being dragged on the airplane banner. Minutes later, the suit is spotless.
  
  
• Continuity: The dark spot on the lawn that Max stops at is not there seconds later when he is talking to the tree.
  
  
• Continuity: At Krstic's party, Agent 99 has on heeled shoes, but when she and Maxwell are heading down to the drainage tunnel, she has on flats; then she returns to heeled shoes when they exit.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Max is captured by Siegfried and Shtarker, a wedding ring appears and disappears from Steve Carell's hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When Maxwell Smart is attempting to escape from jail, the radio in his cell is on. While he is fighting with the guards, it goes off on its own.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene when Max and agent 99 are riding on the Vespa, Max's suit is seen as torn from the scene before, then in the very next shot has been fixed.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the credits, Leonard Stern is credited as "Cesna Pilot." The proper spelling is "Cessna."
  
  
• Factual errors: The Score of Beethoven's 9th Symphony would not be titled "Ode to Joy". The ode to joy is just the name of the tune, found in Beethoven's sketch books, at the end of the fourth movement.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Max is free falling after 99 lets him go, you can briefly see a suit-colored parachute pack on the stunt man.
  
  
• Continuity: When Max takes the equipment from the museum, we see him take keys, a semi-auto pistol with magazine, and the shoephone. Later in Los Angeles when he pulls his gun in the truck, he's got a snubnose .38
  
  
• Factual errors: When Max and Agent 99 are in Russia and stop at the gas station to steal a car, the sign on the gas station and on the gas pumps says "gazoline". In Russia, gas is called "benzine" not "gazoline".
  
  
• Continuity: When Max talks to the clerk at the bakery, the plate of rolls she places on the counter moves, depending on the shot.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the time of the symphony orchestra concert, the program stated Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and then an excerpt from Mozart's 40th Symphony was heard.
  
  
• Factual errors: Max nor 99 could not eject from the bottom of a passenger jet from inside the bathroom. The cargo bay is below the bathroom. They would have to get into the bottom of the cargo bay to eject.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the practice fighting at Control headquarters, the paint bullet that Max shoots (shown in slow motion CG) is still in the shell after being fired.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the orchestra concert, when excerpts of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 are heard, there is a cut to the pianist who is shown playing during both pieces. Neither composition calls for a piano part in the score.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Max opens the door of the small plane, the pilot has both hands on the yoke. When taxiing, the pilot always has his right hand on the throttle.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Max approaches the small plane to commandeer it, he reaches out and grabs the edge of the already open door. Since the plane is taxiing, the door would be closed and secured.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before Max falls from the airplane with his Swiss army knife in his mouth. He screams as he is falling, but later he still has the knife at Kristicks house.
  
  
• Continuity: In the bathroom scene in the airplane, Max shoots himself in the ear and the cheek with his miniature harpoon. The harpoons switch back and forth from his right ear and cheek to his left ear and cheek in subsequent scenes.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Max and 23 are playing paintball you see the casing of the shell flying through the air. Even when a bullet is fired, the casing does not go with the lead.
  
  
• Continuity: During the I-47 car/plane chase, just after 99's head kick and before Smart's entry, the black GMC Denali SUV briefly changes to a black GMC Denali pickup, with no passenger cab or box on it. It is clear that there is no passenger in the pickup, and the right headlight is different.
  
  
• Continuity: After Hymie staples Larabee's skull at the end of the movie, Larabee and Agent 91 switch positions for the pain scene. 91 is now to Larabee's right.
  
  
• Factual errors: In brief segment with Max in the F/A-18D Hornet, he is wearing an Air Force flight suit noted by the "Air Combat Command" patch. The Hornet is only flown by the Navy and Marines in the U.S.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Max jumps out of the plane his hands are tied together. Moments later in air his hands are free again. However, the final crossbow arrow does in fact cut the cuffs.
  
  
• Continuity: When Agent 23 staples a document Larabee's forehead, Agent 91 is seen helping Larabee both with and without a staple remover in his hand in subsequent wide and close shots.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Max breaks out of the jail-cell he goes from prison clothes to a suit and tie in an instant.
  
  

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