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Mamma Mia! (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: During the scene above the 'old goat's house' in which Donna is singing Mamma Mia, the amount of dust/dirt on the knees of her dungarees changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Chiquitita number, the amount of liquid in the glass that Tanya brings to the scene changes between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Donna is repairing the shutter with a cordless drill, there is not a bit in chuck, so there's no way it could "repair" the shutter. The empty chuck is visible in subsequent scenes with the same drill.
  
  

• Continuity: During the dancing scene on the beach, there is what appears to be a decanter and an ice bucket on the bar. These objects change position when the camera angle has changed.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "Does your Mother Know" dance scene at the beach bar, a dancer in the background is suddenly wearing sunglasses in one shot, they are gone on the next shot of her, and then she's wearing them again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the "Chiquitita" number, when Donna's friends are cheering her up, they force a beverage to Donna's lips. Though Meryl Streep acts to be choking on the drink, the liquid actually never gets beyond the bottom half of the glass.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene on the boat when 'Our Last Summer' is being sung, Sophie is seen sat next to Bill holding a picture of him in her hands. However it is Bill's hand holding the photo in the close-up shot of the picture.
  
  
• Continuity: When Donna is repairing the dolphin mosaic with the caulking gun, the tip breaks off of the tube. In subsequent shots, the tip is unbroken.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During one song an extra is up a ladder and has the ladder pulled out from underneath him leaving him hanging from the window ledge. When the angle changes to a close up of him the safety wire can be seen going out of his clothes and up into the window.
  
  
• Continuity: On the way up to the goat house, the upper left sleeve of Harry's shirt has some sort of stain (looks like an oil or sweat stain) on it. In the following shots, the stain is gone.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the orchestra begins after the initial verse during Harry's "Our Last Summer", the chords he plays on the guitar don't match the music.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Donna, Rosie and Tanya are sat on the sofa, Tanya forced Donna back down after she tries to get up. We can hear a high pitched laugh from Meryl Streep but her mouth doesn't move to match the sound.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Sophie and her brides maids are trying on their dresses she uses safety pins to shorten the chain straps. When Skye comes in the pins are no longer visible, only the chains.
  
  
• Continuity: When Donna runs out to her friends who are getting of the boat in the behind shot her arms are in the air, but in the front shot her arms are down.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the scene when Sam, Bill, and Harry first arrive at the Villa all three men seem to have known about Donna having a daughter. While Donna later reveals before the "Dancing Queen" number that she never told any of the men about Sophie, we can however assume that in the invitation the men received, Sophie's name was enclosed.
  
  
• Continuity: As the song "Lay your Love on Me" transforms into Sophie's bachelorette party, cast members are holding Sophie up and she drinks from a bottle and throws it. After she throws it, they lay her on her back and her hair falls off her shoulders, but in the following close-up shot, her hair falls off her shoulders again.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "Lay All Your Love on Me" sequence, the close-ups of Sophie and Sky's embrace reveal that Sophie's lower body is fully clothed, a black waistline being visible.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tanya, Rosie and Donna are singing Dancing Queen in the bedroom, Tanya comes up with a silver hair dryer. In the next shot, when she is standing up, the hair dryer has changed colors to blue.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Sky is hugging Tanya for the first time you can hear Donna say 'And all true!' yet her mouth doesn't match the speech.
  
  
• Continuity: In the does your mother know scene, Tanya isn't wearing shoes as they are in her bag. You see them in the bag when she puts her bag on the bar. In the next dance scene she's wearing her shoes.
  
  
• Continuity: When entering the chapel with her daughter, Donna's shawl is off her shoulder, however when camera views from the rear, it is over her shoulder as it is in the subsequent shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sophie is at her bachelorette party she is lowered on to her back and her hair falls off her shoulders. The scene cuts and when it goes back she is still being lowered and her hair falls off her shoulders yet again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Donna is kissing Sam after she says "I do" she only has a ring on her pinky, and after she puts the wedding ring on her opposite hand she kisses Sam again and there is still the ring on her pinky but there is also one on the finger next to her pinky as well.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Just after Tanya and Rosie arrive, Donna takes the laundry down and says "You think they would figure out a machine that would make the beds," but her mouth isn't moving for some of the sentence.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where the guys take Skye away to his bachelor party, they dance on the dock before diving into the water. In the different shots, the boat anchored off the dock appears and disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: When Donna sings "The Winner Takes It All", in the beginning of the sequence, she holds her hands together, in the very next shot her arms are along her body.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tanya gets out of the paddle boat she is barefoot, when she grabs her towel she is still barefoot, half way through her song "Does Your Mother Know" she is wearing silver flats. The same silver flats she was wearing on the dock when Donna pushed her into the water.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the "Lay All Your Love On Me" song, when the camera is on Sky's back as he draws near Sophie. You can see his mouth move when there are no words being sung (twice).
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The song "Our Last Summer" refers to Sophie being conceived during "flower power," which suggests the 1960s. However, the film is clearly set in the 2000s, (with the Internet etc.), so Sophie, who is 20, must have been conceived in the 1980s.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The closing line of Abba's song was written as "digging the dancing queen," yet the fans have sung it as "dig in the dancing queen" for so long that this lyric has become an acceptable transcription for the DVD subtitles.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): For at least 30 years, Abba and their admirers have sung "My my, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender," yet this is not true. 'Napoleon Bonaparte' retreated from Waterloo, and surrendered at a different place some time later.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: In the scene when Sam is proposing to Donna, before she sings "I Do", you can clearly see the prompt screen reflected in Rosie’s glasses.
  
  

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