The Karate Kid

When Dre's jacket is on the ground before Mr.

Han tells him to pick it up, the jacket is seen in many different places before the final shot.

After Dre gets beaten up at the playground, you see him in the bathroom putting on his mom's foundation over his black eye.

He puts the foundation on almost an inch under his eye, only covering about an inch in height on his cheek.

Yet if you look closely in the next scene when he is walking to school with his mom, the foundation is now directly under his eye and covers most of his cheek.

Though the plot of the movie revolves around kung fu rather than karate, the title "The Karate Kid" is a direct reference to the bullies calling him the "Karate Kid" when he takes up a stance at the beginning of the fight.

When Dre gets beat up at the park Meiying and Cheng alternate positions between the camera being focused on Dre and focused on the two.

On the way from Beijing Airport (North East Beijing) to the Parker's new house they drive past the CCTV building (South East Beijing) and then the Birds Nest (North Bijing).

No one would drive this route.

During the last fight, Dre holds his right leg after injuring his left, then switches back to his left in the next shot.

Chinese Valentine's day is celebrated in August, but Mr.

Han says his wife and son died the 8th of June after the festival.

Dre places his chopsticks on the left side of his food tray at the food court.

But the next frame he has them in his right hand and placing them onto the food tray for the second time.

The Qixi Festival that Dre attends with his mom and Mr.

Han falls on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

Though the exact date in our modern calendar varies from year to year, it is usually sometime in August.

However, a few scenes after this festival, Mr.

Han says the date is June 8th.

This is not possible unless 11 months had passed in those few scenes.

The plane shown taking off to take the Parkers to China is different from the one shown landing in China.

The planes shown have different registration numbers which are seen on the fuselages (specifically B-2460 and B-2443).

However there is no explicit statement that the plane we are looking at is "their" plane, just that it's an Air China plane taking off / landing.

In various scenes Dre is said to be "speaking Chinese" (or making a mess of it).

While this is technically correct, there is no universal language called "Chinese" - instead there are many dialects (none of which are mutually intelligible).

The dialect native to Beijing (and spoken by the characters in the movie) is Mandarin.

During the dance scene, Meiying's dance moves mismatch between shots of her and shots of Dre where her reflection is seen in the glass window behind him.

In the alternate ending for the film there was an extended fight scene between Mr.

Han and Master Li.

At the end of that scene Master Li was left lying on the ground near the stage.

This ending was scrapped and the existing footage re-edited into the theatrical ending.

As the Fighting Dragon students bow to Mr.

Han and Dre there is a cut-away to Master Li looking surprised.

When it cuts back to Mr.

Han and Dre, Master Li can be seen on the floor in the background between them.

In the final scene when Han and Dre bump fists after the tournament, Master Li is on the ground behind them.

This is inconsistent the feature ending, where Li was standing up just moments before the fist bump.

It is consistent with the alternate ending, where Han has just beaten Li in a fight and left him on the ground.

When Dre watches the woman charming a cobra on the mountain, he first watches from behind a window with its bars all in place and parallel.

Then he walks farther up the hall and peers out a second window that has one bar bent out of place, allowing him to peek his head farther out for a better view.

He has his head out this second window when Han calls him, but in the next shot he's behind the first window again as he responds to the call.

When Dre turns on the TV, the introduction to _"SpongeBob SquarePants" (1999)_ (qv) is on.

However, the video is halfway through the introduction, but the audio is near the end of the Spongebob Squarepants theme.

The newspaper clipping on the hood of Mr Han's now-beat-up car is covered with pieces of windshield.

Dre picks it up, removing the glass.

When the camera shows the clipping right after, the pieces of glass are back on the clipping.

During the celebration of winning the first rounds of the tournament, a photographer is seen taking pictures from very close range; under one meter.

His camera is sporting a telephoto lens, which usually have a minimal macro distance of 1.

2 to 1.

4 meters.

There is no way the photographer could have been taking clear pictures.

In the backstreet fight scene, Mr.

Han bonks two of the kids' heads together.

You can clearly see that one is behind the other.

In Mr.

Han's office, he gives Dre a full glass of water.

Cut to close up and Dre clearly tips up an empty glass.

In the music competition scene, the boy playing Flight of the Bumblebee is heard playing high notes near the end of the music but is at the left (low) end of the keyboard with both hands.

When Mr.

Han and Dre visit Master Li's Kung Fu school, they witness him punishing one of his students by slapping him in the face.

The student falls backwards as if being hit almost a full second before Master Li's hand would have connected with his face.