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17 Again (2009) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Mark (Zac Efron) and Alex are eating in the cafeteria, Mark's hamburger moves from his hands to the tray to the table, to the tray with a bite taken out, and finally back to his hands.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mike and Ned are sitting in the kitchen, icing their injuries after beating each other up, Mike's wedding band switches hands several times.
  
  
• Factual errors: When 17 year old Mike is dancing with the cheerleaders at the beginning before the game, the coach yells at him to cut it out, calling him Vanilla Ice. That was in 1989, and Vanilla Ice didn't make it big until 1990-1991.
  
  

• Continuity: When Ned and the now 17-year-old Mike have the lightsaber battle, Ned falls to the floor. Mike starts with only one hand on the saber but then it cuts to Mike having both hands on the saber.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Mike assists his wife with the shopping from the back of the car he runs his finger down the side doors. Two more finger lines are noticeable, suggesting previous takes.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the movie at the part in the divorce court, Mark/Mike looks down at his paper several times and his eyes move across the page (indicating that he's reading) but when Scarlet goes to get the "letter" only an address is on it. This was simply done to give the impression that he was actually reading the letter otherwise the judge would have noticed that he wasn't reading the letter and have him kicked out.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Mike and Ned go to the principal's office to enroll in school, the principal's computer monitor switches from Dashboard widgets to the Flurry screen saver and back again.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When back in 1989, Ned runs in late for the team picture wearing wizard robes and referencing a hippogriff, it may appear to be nod to Harry Potter (which was not published until 1997, and 1998 in America). However, the myth of hippogriffs is not a Harry Potter original, having been around for hundreds of years. Ned also makes reference to being "Dungeon Master", making it obvious he was playing Dungeons and Dragons, which has been around since the 1970s (hippogriffs included).
  
  
• Continuity: When Mark is eating his nasty sandwich, the camera zooms to only his face; there are food crumbs on his upper lips. The it zooms out, and zooms back in. Now the crumbs are gone.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In 1989, at the beginning of the film we believe that Mike is 17 when he finds out that his girlfriend is pregnant. 20 years later, in 2009, we see Mike with a teenage daughter still in school. However, there is nothing in the movie indicating that the present-day plot takes place in 2009. Scarlett even says that she "spent the last eighteen years" with Mike, so it is somewhere around 2007 in their universe. Alternatively, it is possible that his daughter could simply be 19 years old, having started school late or had to repeat a grade.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mark arrives for his first day at school in the sports car, he pulls into a space, parking almost on the parking space line. When he walks away from the car, it is shown properly parked and centered in the parking space.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the opening basketball game, a shot of the crowd shows a student in the front row wearing a pink and purple band t-shirt by the band Paramore. Paramore formed as a band until the 2000s, becoming big in 2007.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: There is sound effect of the ball being dribbled when in fact Mike is only holding the ball deciding who to pass to. It was not, as previously assumed, a double dribble, but the wrong sound effect.
  
  
• Continuity: During the party scene were Mike is trying to convince Alex to talk with the girl who Alex likes, Alex's collar flips up and down on the right side as the camera angles switch. Alex's collar would have been flipped up from Mike padding him on the upper back while they walk towards the girl.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the beginning when the 1989 basketball team photo is being taken Ned has his sweater on by one sleeve then at the next moment it's on by both sleeves, in the next shot only one sleeve is on.
  
  
• Continuity: In the restaurant, after the "dork" admission, Principal Masterson has her hands clasped in front of her, yet when the shot changes she's holding a menu up.
  
  
• Continuity: When pulling into the school parking lot in his Audi R8, Mike drove onto the left white line of the parking spot, yet as he's walking away, the car is at least a foot from the white line.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mike/Mark is shooting free-throws before the second big game there are seven balls on the rack including one on the top tier, after he talks to the coach there are only five with none on the rack and there hasn't been time or the sound of another shot.
  
  

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