Also, in close-up shots of the box, the box is turned the other way, so that a generic informational panel is facing the camera.
In the next shot, the nutrition facts are visible again.
In several shots at the beginning of the film, a building with the California Bank & Trust logo is prominent in the foreground.
California Bank & Trust was established in 1998.
During his speech, Reese Feldman attributes "To err is human, to forgive divine" to 'William Shakespeare (I)' (qv).
Huggy Bear credits the same line to God (presumably meaning the Bible).
In fact, this line was written by Alexander Pope, in his "An Essay on Criticism" in the early 1700s.
A modern UPS delivery truck is visible in an alley near the beginning of the movie.
While dressed in pantomime, the eyebrows painted on Starsky's face change thickness.
When Starsky and Hutch (and the Torino) get shot at by the Korean gunman, Hutch frantically grabs the radio mike and calls in the license plate number of the gunman's car, then hurriedly throws the mike into the Torino and pursues the gunman.
Moments later, after the gunman escapes, the dispatcher radios back with the license info and we see the radio with the mike neatly hung up on the clip.
When the German Shepherd is attacking a man because of the "old" cocaine, you can clearly see the protective covering on the man's arm.
When fighting Manetti in the locker-room, Hutch gets shaving-foam on his shoulder.
Moments later, the foam has disappeared.
In the disco, the DJ/Announcer uses a Shure Beta58 microphone, distinguished by the blue band around the windscreen and the grey color of the body.
The Beta58 was first introduced in 1989.
When Reese and Friday are meeting with the drug dealers, a few of the buildings in the background were not around in the '70s, especially the Library Tower which wasn't completed until the 1990s.
In the opening of the film, Starsky is chasing the perp in his Torino with the magnetic police light attached to the roof.
The light is attached over the passenger side of the car, far out of Starsky's reach since he was driving alone.
When visiting the injured boy in the hospital, one of the characters is reading a _"Transformers" (1984)_ (qv) comic book, which was first available in the 1980's.
When Starsky falls into the hallway after being hit with knives thrown by the Korean boy, the knife sticking out of his calf falls off of his leg.
The blade is only an inch long.
When Starsky and Hutch meet Huggie Bear in the alley, a cellular phone tower can be seen in the distance.
Cellular phone towers did not exist in the 1970s.
The FCC authorized commercial cellular service for the USA in 1982.
When Starsky visits Willis in the hospital, the boy is watching _"The Jeffersons" (1975)_ (qv) on TV in the daytime.
The movie is set in 1975 according to its own internal evidence (Huggy Bear has an advance model of a 1976 car that's due to go on the market "next year"), the same year the series began its run; it couldn't have been on in the afternoons at that point in time.
When Reese's boat is leaving Starsky and Hutch in its wake near the end of the movie, the rear entrance is on the left rear side.
On the next shot with him and Kitty the entrance has moved to the right rear side.
When Starsky and Hutch are talking in the office, Hutch is drinking a cup of coffee and the cup is alternately up/down between shots.
In reference to his daughter's bat mitzvah, Reese mistakenly says "bar mitzvah" a few times.
A bar mitzvah is for boys.
During a brief shot, the knife thrown by the Korean boy which gets stuck in Hutch's arm disappears, then is back again in the next shot.
When Hutch tackles Starsky at the end of the disco dance-off, Starsky's wallet is lying on the ground over his left shoulder.
When Hutch picks up the wallet, he picks it up over Starsky's right shoulder.
After he tells the crowd that he is a cop, he is still holding Starky's wallet in his hand.
In the next shot, the wallet is lying on the ground, over Starsky's left shoulder.
When Huggy Bear is being caddie for Feldman, and Starsky and Hutch are in Hutch's camper/pick-up truck, Hutch's earphones disappear between shots.
When Starsky and Hutch (and the Torino) get shot at by the Korean gunman, you can hear the cartridges from Starsky's semi-automatic pistol hit the ground as they are ejected.
When Hutch fires his revolver you hear the same sound.
A revolver retains cartridges in its cylinder when fired.
When they are in the bar, Starsky and Hutch mistake Jeff for Big Earl.
Jeff then shows them his shirt, which has his name Jeff sewed into it.
When Starsky grabs the shirt, in the close up he grabs it with his left hand, but in the next shot he has the shirt in his right hand.
When Hutch is playing the guitar, the sound coming from the guitar doesn't match the strokes made by his right hand.
When Reese and Kevin are sitting on chairs near the pool, there is a blue towel behind Reese's head when Kitty sits down on him.
In the next shot, the blue towel is gone.
During the car chase on the golf course, tire tracks from previous shots can be seen.
When Hutch takes the money out of the "Floater's" wallet, it is completely soaked.
A short time later, Starsky & Hutch are examining other paper items out of the wallet, yet they are completely dry, and appear as though they have never been wet.
When Starsky & Hutch start out of the marina parking lot before they attempt to land the Torino on the boat, you see a couple of big, black dirty areas behind the front and rear tires on the fender and quarter panel.
In the shot immediately following, the black is gone and the Torino is now completely clean.
In the golf course chase scene near the end, a 1978 Mustang is seen on the road.
The film is set in 1975.
When Starsky gets a call saying that a body has been found in the marina he spins the car round in the other lane to head that way.
You can see the original stunt practice skid marks on the road.
When Starsky starts crying in the hospital, he grabs a tissue.
Before he starts to cry the tissue is a different length, then it's the same again.
When Starsky crashes his car into the marina while trying to catch Reese, you can see when the boat is getting away that the marina is just a background, and they are swimming in a small pool.
Hutch's motorcycle has a front disk brake, not available in the mid '70s.
In the beginning shots, when Starsky is chasing the purse snatcher, he is wearing blue and white shoes.
When he jumps onto the Cadillac's convertible top, his stunt double is wearing brown or black shoes.
Sniffer dogs detect trace amounts of drugs that get into the air and stick to objects that have been near or in contact with drugs.
If cocaine was chemically altered to "smell" differently in order to avoid sniffer dog detection, the drug would no longer be cocaine.
In a scene where we see a gun scope aimed at one of the leads, the bullet is fired while aimed towards the drivers window of the car, with the windscreen also in the path of the bullet.
But only the side window gets broken.
When Reese and his girlfriend are speeding away in their car as Starsky and Hutch are shooting at them, you hear her say, "What's going on?", but her mouth is not moving.
After Starsky shoots the iguana, you can briefly see the case for the blank he shot is lodged in the action.
In the next shot it is gone.
- PLOTKevin tells the coke dealers that the German Shepherd can "detect smells that even the most advanced technology in the world cannot.
" With that in mind, we see the fat coke dealer smoking a cigarette who is sitting closer to the dog than the man with the "old coke" (the one that the dog attacks) thus, the dog should have caught the man with the cigarette first.
After Starsky drinks the coffee with cocaine in it, he then keeps sniffing and rubbing his nose after, as if he had snorted the cocaine, not taken it orally.
While being shot at by the Korean, Hutch calls in the plate on the radio while outside the passenger door then throws the mic into the car on the seat.
Then when receiving information on the radio the mic is hanging by the bracket aside the radio.
(at around 1h 30 mins) When the Torino lands you can see the white paint stripe reveal just how much the front of the car is deformed in these jumps.
The owner would never do this for fun as it would ruin the car each time.
The Kleenex box in the hospital had a plastic liner to keep the tissue up no matter what.
In the 70s, there was no plastic, and you sometimes had to dig for the next tissue.
The singer for the band is using a 1980s Shure Beta 58 Mic.
When Starsky is running on the beach he falls and his headphones fall from his head.
The batteries fly out of the headphones and land on the sand, yet they still work when Starsky puts the headphones back on.
In the credits, 'Brande Roderick' (qv) and 'Molly Sims' (qv)' character credits are exchanged.
"Chau" is a Chinese name, not a Korean name.
When Hutch wakes up in bed with the girl, he walks out past a very nice fish tank, with several fish - including a Blood Parrot Cichlid, a hybrid fish bred specifically for its color and distinctive, unusual (and unhealthy for the fish) shape, in 1986.
In the locker room, when Hutch pulls Starsky off of Manetti, his hands are on top of Starsky's shoulders.
While Manetti is talking the shot changes angle, and Hutch's hands are suddenly down by Starsky's elbows.
During the chase scenes Starsky drifts the Torino around the island of the parking lot but is stopped by the ice cream truck.
The camera on the passenger side of the truck shows the car sliding right with the wheels pointed to the right, a second later you see the same as the Torino nose dives to a stop from another camera angle.
But the next shot the Torino nose dives with the wheels pointed to the left.
During the closing scene with the original _"Starsky and Hutch" (1975)_ (qv) actors, Starsky is told about popping the clutch and jumping from 2nd to 4th gear.
But, during the jump onto the boat you can clearly see that the Gran Torino has an automatic gear box due to the fact it has no clutch pedal.
Just a gas pedal and large brake pedal.
I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the best thing that can happen to cinema is that Hollywood is utterly obliterated and to let new seeds sprout where they will so we can get back to the basic reason creators are here for - to make movies with free creativity and vision again, just like the Hollywood of the '70s did. Remove the chains from scriptwriters and directors and restore their absolute freedom of imagination back to the big screen.
Bad watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend.Maybe the original source was actually good, but this is very aggressive about (at one point literally) tearing the name away from the original.
If you're a fan of the original series and not interested in seeing it parodied, I suggest giving this movie a miss.There are various "golden oldie" songs throughout the movie which were enjoyable to listen to and sing along to but some of the footage that accompanied these songs seemed overtly and unnecessarily sexual.
Classic, hilarious amazing cast great story. Amazing performance from Ben stiller and Luke Wilson.
STARSKY & HUTCHI had seen this film for sale in my local DVD shop so cheap that I had to buy it. Everyone I had spoken to that had seen it had told me that this film was terrible.
They ruined this like they did with CHiPs. I kind of expected this type of movie based on all the actors.
I really didn't expect much. But i thoroughly enjoyed myself.
This was a long awaited film when it came out, and it disappointed. Like the TV series it wasn't supposed to be taken too seriously police officers and people per se do not behave like this in real life, at least not all the time.
So good. The cameos and the characters are classic.
