Men in Black

The shotgun Edgar puts down in the morgue disappears.

When K shoots Jeebs in the head in the jewelry store, the resultant blast sends goop flying everywhere, yet in the next scene, the counter and wall behind Jeebs is completely clean.

In the scene when the alien craft crashes, there is a shot of smoke rising, and off to the right side of the scene, men can be seen walking down the hill.

When Edwards moves the table during the "best of the best" test, the scraping sound begins before the table is moved.

When Agent K is looking up his lost love, he types "Truro", then zooms in on Cape Cod.

As he closes in, he misses Truro on the map by about 50 miles' drive (the town/village he zooms to is actually closer to Forestdale or Wakeby).

Also, the lush forest he zooms in on is all wrong; Truro has forests in the southern end of town, but of scrub pine trees, and North Truro is mostly dunes and grass.

'Kent Faulcon' (qv) is identified as "1st.

Jake Jensen" in the credits but calls himself "2nd Lt.

Jake Jensen" in the audition scene.

(He has 1st Lt.

rank on his uniform).

A pedestrian speed-walks past K's car window when they are first in the LTD, indicating sped-up film.

Partial reflection of the camera and its shadow can be seen when the camera follows the bank of lockers during J's initiation into the MIB.

As J is being shown the screen where they constantly observe the aliens, the clips on the screen are being endlessly looped.

A screen close to the center, for instance, shows a man getting comfortable on a couch over and over again.

As J chases the alien at the beginning of the movie, the chase starts at Grand Central Station.

In the next shot, the alien is seen running downtown (the park is on his right) to get to the Guggenheim Museum.

The Guggenheim is uptown from Grand Central.

The signs in the windows of the Russian restaurant change when shown from the inside.

When K approaches Redgick's car, the shadow of the camera can be seen briefly.

The license plate on the LTD changes from centered to the right-hand side during the film.

When Rosenburg leaves his shop, Edgar's "Zap 'em" truck is visible, reflected in the window.

It is parked.

The next shot of the street shows Edgar drive by and park in front of Rosenburg's shop.

When the car is going super fast and upside down near the finale, J falls upside down and appears to have a white leg.

However, that leg actually is that of 'Will Smith (I)' (qv) (as shown on the DVD version's special features), so this must be a trick of the light.

When K and J are talking with Z just before the "skimmer" problem is identified, K's legs are alternately crossed/uncrossed between shots.

Right before K unplugs the camera in the interrogation he says "Some night huh?" but his mouth is not matched with the voice The address on the back of the MiB business card goes from being below the logo to above it.

When J is chasing the alien at the beginning of the movie, the alien leaps to the roof of the Guggenheim.

When he does so, the cables aiding in the stunt are visible.

The first time we are shown Orion's belt, his name is spelled out in all upper case (ORION).

However, when Dr.

Weaver examines his collar on her desk, it is spelled out in mixed case (Orion).

When K is looking at his lost girlfriend via satellite, the view is horizontal, as though shot from the ground, rather than "top down", as though shot from space.

When K is giving J his weapon, the bug's spaceship can be seen behind J before the shoot out at Rosenberg's.

The exterminator's truck does not have a New York State DEC sticker, which is required for all pesticide application vehicles to have clearly on display.

As J is trying to follow Edgar after the gun fight outside the jewelry store, the pyrotechnic devices used for the cricket gun damage blasts are clearly visible for a few seconds before they burn out.

When J goes into MiB for the written test with the other candidates, it is very apparent that the seal on the test is an architecture drafting dot, due to the noticeable Staedtler logo.

In the end where the camera zooms away from Manhattan to the galaxy, the camera zooms from a location near the center of the Milky Way.

According to most scientists, earth is actually located on one of the galaxy's "arms".

When J tries to get the attention of K and Chief Zed for them to look at the spaceships in Queens, you can see K talking and typing on the keyboard, but his fingers aren't actually touching the keys.

When Z shows J the screen diagram of Orion's Belt at headquarters, the three stars are labeled in reverse of their true order, and Alnilam is misspelled as Alinlam.

K & J stop an alien in a car (the alien with the pregnant wife) because the alien is fleeing Manhattan, the area to which his visa restricts him.

The alien's car is pointed toward Manhattan.

When the alien jumps off backward from the roof of the Guggenheim Museum, a safety cable can clearly be seen on his leg (just before the jump).

After Jay passes the tests near the beginning of the movie and sits in the park discussing aliens with Kay, Kay comments that "1,500 years ago everybody knew the Earth was the centre of the universe; 500 years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat".

1,500 years ago, only Europeans believed the Earth to be the centre of the solar system - the Greeks, Indians and most of the Muslim world had proposed and accepted theories of heliocentrism (i.

the sun as the centre) several hundred years before Copernicus first published his theories on the matter in the 16th Century CE.

The Earth's spherical nature was something that most scholars and all navigators were aware of as early as 400 BCE and has been common knowledge for the past 1,000 years.

When the bug goes into the farm house wearing Edgar's Skin he drinks sugar water, and then Beatrice tells him that his skin is hanging off his bones.

He looks in the mirror then grabs his hair and pulls his skin tightly to the back of his head.

Beatrice faints and the next shot shows the bug still pulling his hair back, but the skin is no longer stretched.

When Edwards is at MIB headquarters in the egg shaped chair he sets his test papers to his left side, then when he stands up to drag the table over the papers briefly disappear.

When K wipes the memories of the cops on the Mexican border, he says the neuralyzer will isolate the 'electronic' impulses in their brains, when actually it's 'electrical' impulses.

When J firsts shoots the MIB gun and is thrown back against the wall, it wobbles.

After Edgar kills the Arquillians in the restaurant and rushes outside, we follow in a through-the-window shot as Edgar tosses a bystander off the sidewalk and then menaces a second in a close pass.

But in the immediate exterior shot on Edgar from the sidewalk, the second bystander has vanished.

When the Edgar alien crashes out the morgue window, carrying Laurel, white shorts can be seen sticking out from between Laurel's brown shorts, and her pantyhose.

These do not appear again, despite numerous tumbles by Laurel that should have revealed them again.

In the final scene, when Jay is fighting the big bug, he throws a rock and strikes the bug in the head.

If you watch the rock closely, it disappears shortly after hitting the ground.

As the Bug climbs through the hatch into the first spaceship at the World's Fair, the supposedly solid structure wobbles.

When riding in the tunnel, J puts on an 8-track and listens to Elvis.

J quips, "You do know Elvis is dead?" to which K replies, "No he didn't, he just went home," implying he is an alien.

Earlier K reveals the aliens first made contact in 1961 - five years after 'Elvis Presley' (qv) made his breakthrough performance on the 'Ed Sullivan (I)' (qv) show.

However, this is when they made contact, not necessarily when they first landed.

When J and K are ready to shoot down the spaceship at the end of the movie, the first shot shows Will Smith is on the right of the screen but every other shot of the two Will Smith is on the left.

In the opening scene, we see New York license plates on the cars.

However, we also see cacti which could never exist in a climate like New York; however, it is possible that the MIB drove to a state in the south west as the guy was bringing immigrants over the border.

When Edgar grabs Orion at the morgue and then grabs Laurel right after, the cat has suddenly vanished from Edgar's grasp.

The MiB get splattered by the bug's goo at the end, yet in the next scene (just before K asks J to flash his memory) they are wearing clean suits while Linda Fiorentino's character still wears dirty clothes.

However, in the DVD commentary, Barry Sonnefeld insists the MIB suits are made of a "slime-repellent" material.

In the scene when the bug's spaceship crashes, although its on fire (coming from sky behind the house) it has no effect on the shadow of the house.

When the "bug Edgar" breaks into the store you can see the Zap'em truck outside.

The roof is smooth and undamaged while in the earlier scene when he drives into the city the roof is torn up and his ship is sticking through the hole in the roof.

During the morgue scene while inspecting the body cavity, the weight shown on one of the scales in the background changes.

J and K exit the morgue at night and go directly back to MIB headquarters.

J goes to his computer and scans for his lost love in Cape Cod, which is in the same time zone as NY.

When the image is located, it appears to be daylight when it should be in the evening.

Early on Zed says to J that they're going to go try on "the last suit you'll ever wear", but in the last scene of the movie, J is wearing what's obviously a very different suit (just the same color).

As the camera pans into the morgue the corpse on the fridge tray has a neck pulse.

When James chases the alien in Will Smith's first scene, after he stops him, he sarcastically explains to him what NYPD stands for, "Nock Your Punkass Down".

In this context, "knock" starts with a "k".

Obviously the context was done sarcastically.

When looking at the star chart of Orion's Belt, Alnitak can be seen labelled as the middle star.

From the northern hemisphere, Alnitak is the leftmost of the three stars of the belt (Alnilam is the middle star, Mintaka is the right hand star).

When entering MIB headquarters, after spending the night deciding whether or not to join MIB, Edwards says to the security guard, "What's up hoss?" His lips never move.

When the Mets player (portrayed by outfielder Bernard Gilkey, who played for the Mets from 1996-98) is hit on the head with the ball, he is wearing jersey #23 (Gilkey's number), and the jersey has the standard "Mets" script across the chest.

Later, when he is seen on the cover of the tabloid, he is wearing #20, with the 1993-94 script that has a "swoosh-tail" attached to the "s" underlining the word "Mets.

" When Zed is explaining Orion's Belt to J at HQ, the constellation rotates on the screen and zooms in on the belt.

It shows the three stars of the belt, Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka roughly in a straight line.

In reality, the stars appear in a line and the same brightness only from Earth.

Viewed from the rotated view, the stars would form a triangle with the right star nine times brighter than the left star.

While K is confronting the alien who's leaving town with his pregnant wife, birds enter screen left, fly behind K's head, fly behind the alien's head, but then they don't come out the other side.