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Film critics should be above these kinds of factual errors, right? Not if CowboyBebopAtHisComputer has anything to say about it...
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* The {{Creator/Netflix}} section:
** The blurb for ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' states that Orlando Bloom's character takes up his sword to free the Holy Land from the Turks. That would be true if the movie were about the first crusade--it's actually about Saladin's recapture of the Holy Land ''from'' Crusaders, who had been occupying it for almost a century. And that would still be wrong, because the conflict is between the Crusaders and ''Arabs'' (and Persians—Saladin was a Kurd).
** In the film description of the ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' on [[http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/The-Rocky-Horror-Picture-Show/60000448?strackid=32e2e90d294e6552_0_srl&strkid=894448976_0_0&trkid=438381 Netflix]] it describes the plot as "... the exploits of naïve couple Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) after they stumble upon the lair of transvestite vampire Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry)." Vampire? Really?
** Streaming service listed ''Film/SuddenDeath'' (a movie that takes place at a hockey game and even has [[SuddenDeath a hockey-term title]]), as taking place at a ''baseball'' game.
** The description Netflix has for ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' says that Luther is one of the team members that helps Ethan on his mission to clear his name from the terrorist attack at the Kremlin. Luther only shows up for the last few minutes of the movie, however.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** ''Film/XMen1'':
*** A review, this one appearing in the ''New Times Los Angeles'', blasted the film for departing from the comic's signature yellow-and-blue costumes, and for giving ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, the "master of all evil", a sympathetic Holocaust-survivor {{backstory}}. Which shows that he did actually read the comic... in the 1960s, and not once since.
*** Similarly, ''The New York Times'' had a piece on ''Film/{{Valkyrie}}'' that erroneously claimed that Creator/BryanSinger came up with the idea of Magneto's Holocaust backstory.
*** A negative review of in ''People Magazine'', among other things, said, "Since when do superheroes have such traumatic backstories?" Oh, since about [[Franchise/{{Batman}} 1939]]?[[note]][[Franchise/{{Superman}} 1938]] if we count mass-extinction. Earlier still, if we count comic adaptations of pre-existing superheroes like Radio/TheShadow, Franchise/DocSavage, or ComicStrip/ThePhantom.[[/note]]
*** A Dutch magazine claimed the first ''X-Men'' movie was about Xavier having to stop his evil ''brother'' Magneto.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'':
*** In a ridiculously inaccurate negative review by Stephen Hunter in ''The Washington Post'', it quickly became clear that he either did not bother to watch the movie, or was distracted for most of its length. At one point, he said that Rogue had the power to ''reverse time'', even going so far as to call her "the Mistress of Rewind". He was apparently confused by the scenes in which she extinguishes flames (using Pyro's power) and makes Wolverine's wounds reappear (he let her borrow his HealingFactor. His wounds reappearing is [[NoOntologicalInertia another problem]]) [[note]]The wounds reappearing, in fairness, may not have been strictly an ontological inertia problem even in non-mutants. For instance scurvy can cause the reopening of even extremely old wounds that have been long-healed. Wolverine may have been experiencing a similar effect with the loss of his healing factor[[/note]].
*** A review in the ''Irish Times'' complained that Senator Robert Kelly (R-KS), who had been killed in the first film, was somehow alive in the second... except he wasn't: the Sen. Robert Kelly seen in ''X2'' is actually just Mystique impersonating him. This was not only pointed out explicitly in the first film (for those viewers too sleepy to notice the characteristic flash of yellow eyes) but was a ''pivotal plot point'' in the second, which makes you wonder if the reviewer actually bothered to watch the film.
*** One ''TIME'' magazine profile of Creator/AlanCumming described him as playing a "mutant villain". As in, Nightcrawler.
*** Someone probably just saw the first scene of him attacking the White House and missing the part about him being mind-controlled.
** A review in ''The Straits Times'' for ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' states that Logan is American, when he is really Canadian. He even says so to another character at one point in the movie.
* A continuity announcer on [=ITV2=] claimed that ''Film/GoldenEye'' was about "Pierce Brosnan running around the Arctic with Famke Janssen trying to save the world (and his libido)." Famke Janssen's character Xenia Onatopp is ''a villain'' from the start. Also, part of the St. Petersburg tank chase was filmed on site. They faked all of the relevant statues and treasures and smashed replicas on a UK Backlot, but that didn't stop a few breathless "They're destroying our art!" newscasts in Russia.
* A talking head on CNBC reported that the then-just released ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' had broken the opening box office record held by the movie ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}''. However, ''Aquaman'' at that point in time was just a [[ShowWithinAShow fictional movie]] within the universe of ''Series/{{Entourage}}'', and didn't come out in real life until the end of [[Film/Aquaman2018 2018]].
* An Israeli mainstream news site reported about a new trailer for ''[[ShowWithinAShow Medellin]]'', starring Vincent Chase, the star of [[ShowWithinAShow Aquaman]], which is ''also'' all plot from the show ''Series/{{Entourage}}''. The article had a link to the [[{{Defictionalization}} de-fictional]] website created for the fictional movie, along with the trailer itself embedded in the page. Shortly after the virtual [[FacePalm facepalms]] began appearing in the comments section, the article was removed.
* The ''Film/HarryPotter'' film series:
** One article about the fifth movie showed a picture of Harry and Cho Chang about to kiss, but the caption read that he was puckering up for ''Hermione''. The canon shippers were not amused.
** Before the fourth film came out, ''The Sun'' showed a picture of Harry and Parvati Patil dancing with the caption "Harry romances Cho Chang at the Yule Ball". On the one hand, it is ''kinda'' understandable as Cho Chang is Harry's love interest and he does ask her to the ball (she just says no and he asks Parvati instead). On the other hand, one wonders how the journalist could have thought an actress of Indian ethnicity was playing a character with an obviously Chinese name.
** A Norwegian newspaper called the aforementioned kiss scene a "highly controversial sex scene".
** An amazing number of film critics, including Creator/RogerEbert, described the ending of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' as involving a duel with a dragon, whereas the creature Harry fought was actually a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk basilisk]]. This may be rather nitpicky, but the fact that the creature was a snake was a bit of a plot point. On the other hand, [[http://listverse.com/2010/04/16/10-beasts-that-used-to-be-mythical/ early descriptions]] of dragons in western literature describe them as serpents and this might have been where the critics were going. Basilisks are traditionally classified as a type of dragon anyway, except when they aren't, so the mistake is somewhat understandable. Unfortunately, the Potterverse accepts the "except when they aren't" as canon.
** Robert Pattinson appeared properly as Cedric Diggory in ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', but wasn't in the next film, ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', unless you count a two-second {{Flashback}} to footage from ''Goblet of Fire''. Of course, reporters covering his performance as Edward Cullen in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movies say he was in two ''Potter'' films (after all, that's how it shows up on [=IMDb=]) or even mention ''Phoenix'' exclusively, since it was more recent.
** Media coverage from various sources sort of did this with Creator/DanielRadcliffe and Emma Waston's kiss in ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows, Part 1]]''. While they technically didn't state anything inaccurate about it, they heavily implied the scene was an actual romantic moment rather than an evil vision tormenting Ron. And, of course, lots of attention was given to the fact that they were naked. It even got an unironic nod for "best kiss" from the MTV Movie Awards.
** At the fifth film's release, one Bulgarian newspaper published an article titled "''Harry Potter'' is getting lewd", illustrated by a random picture of a scantily clad Helena Bonham Carter and implying that Bellatrix will be introduced as a FemmeFatale, possibly acting this way towards Harry. There was, of course, no such thing in the movie, and Bellatrix' AdaptationalAttractiveness boiled down to her not looking like she's spent 15 years at a mind-breaking prison.
* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'':
** The local Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN) paper's movie review of the 2007 ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie repeatedly referred to the Autobots' human buddy as "Spike". Spike was the equivalent human to Sam Witwicky in the [[ComicBook/TransformersGenerationOne original comic and cartoon]].
** For ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', we have Movie Juice's negative review that tells us that you can disguise the fact you didn't watch a film with a series of jokes about it. The reviewer called Megan Fox a Decepticon, made jokes about Rosie Huntington-Whitely wearing tight dresses and high heels during battle scenes including the scene with the colapsing building, and made several jokes about how silly a lot of the character's names are. To those who haven't seen the film, let me explain these problems: Megan Fox's character Mikaela Banes was a human girl in the first film who sided with the good guys, the Decepticons are ''aliens'' and ''bad guys''. Rosie Huntington-Whitely did wear a form fitting dress and high heels in one scene that you could call a fight scene, but that was between humans, consisted of two holding one down while a third punched him, and her involvement in the scene was her leaving a party and being abducted by a Decepticon before she's even left the premises. The collapsing building scene is right after she's been rescued, to which she's already changed into more casual clothing. The characters with funny names are all ''alien robots''. It would be weird if they ''didn't'' have alien sounding names. This was, of course, not helped by the reviewer basically trolling anyone who called them out on it.
* Film critic Armond White is infamous for panning acclaimed movies and acclaiming panned movies.
** In his review of ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', he identifies Marcel, the black film projectionist/Shoshanna's lover, as the narrator of the penultimate chapters. There's a LOT wrong with that statement: 1. The brief narration is done by Creator/SamuelLJackson, who has a distinctive voice to anyone who watches movies. 2. The narration is in English, where Marcel appears to speak only French, 3. There is no narration in the penultimate chapters. The two times Jackson narrates are near the center of the film. Which is of course all lost on the poor basterds who only get to see the film badly dubbed into French/German/Russian/Urdu/... Oh, and [[spoiler:Marcel is implied to die at the end of the film, as all exits are blocked, and he is at the heart of the conflagration.]]
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
** A review decried the fact that Arwen gets such a small role (whereas in the books, she has all of ''one line'', near the end of ''Return of the King''). Another assumed that Éowyn's killing of the Witch-King was an [[AffirmativeActionGirl expansion of her role in the books]], but her role in the books was actually reduced for the films. In the film, she kills the Nazgûl Lord and sort-of-generally pines for Aragorn. In the book, she slays the Nazgûl Lord and delivers a badass speech decrying how men get all the glory and heroism in battle, whereas women's job is "to have leave to be burned in the house once men no longer have need of it."
** At least one review of the movies put forth the opinion that the reason the filmmakers put so much painstaking effort into Gollum's portrayal was simply because CGI is a new toy and they wanted to show it off as much as possible.
** [[http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/homework.htm The Tolkien Sarcasm Page]] is a deliberately erroneous, tongue-in-cheek summary of ''The Lord of the Rings''. A writer for the ''Sunday Times'' [[http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/blanchett.htm took it seriously]] and used it in preparation for an interview with Cate Blanchett. Made even funnier by the fact that the premise of that webpage is that if you can't be bothered to read the book (before writing a paper, book report, or in this case, ''giving an interview''), then you deserve to be misinformed.
*** Cate Blanchett who, like the other actors, was sworn to secrecy about the direction of the actual movie, knew of the Sarcasm page, and strung the writer along using the inaccuracies of the page as a guide, to see how bad the interview would be.
** A newspaper reviewer of ''The Return of the King'' made a complaint that the movie included a giant spider and wondered why Peter Jackson felt it was needed. Shelob appears in the series, though her appearance was moved to the third instalment for the films.
** A newspaper synopsis of ''The Lord of the Rings'' read "Frodo and friends go on a quest to find a magic ring." Some quest that would have been, given that one of the first things that happens in the story is Frodo getting the ring from Bilbo.
** Reviews of the first instalment in Peter Jackson's ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy are guilty of this. The film has been criticised for having a more childish and humorous tone than ''The Lord of the Rings'', ignoring that ''The Hobbit'' is a novel aimed at young children while ''The Lord of the Rings'' wasn't. The film has also been criticised for "padding" by including Gandalf and the White Council's struggles with The Necromancer, going as far as to claim that these things don't appear in Tolkien's works. However, as Jackson has stated lots of times (and anyone with a small understanding of Tolkien's books should know), this material been taken from the appendices of ''Return of the King'', which details that these events happen at the same time as ''The Hobbit''.
** Then there are the websites that attempt to defend the films by saying that "everything not in the book comes from the appendices." Well, not everything. Tauriel is a completely original character, meaning that the love triangle between herself, Legolas and Kili is purely an invention by Jackson and company, not to mention most of what goes on in Laketown. Alfrid is also an original character, as are Bard's children. Also, Azog fought Thorin's ''grandfather'', not Thorin himself, and was long dead by the time the story began, and Radagast never meets Thorin and Company.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** One TV-news reporter in 1977 referred to Chewbacca as "Choobie". Another referred to the ''Millennium Falcon'' as "Darth Vader's ship".
** When ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' hit the cinemas, an Austrian magazine attempted to introduce uninitiated readers to the film's universe. There was mention of the fan outcry about the small green Jedi Master named Ewok being too cute, and confused the Neimodian Trade Federation mooks with Sith Lords.
** It's not uncommon to hear people talk about "Dark Vader" (or "Darth Vadar") and "Hans Solo". Even the actors are prone to such mistakes: Creator/JamesEarlJones made the [[http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-01-22-james-earl-jones_N.htm "Dark Vader" mistake]] when referring to his character, and Creator/CarrieFisher referred to Padmé as "Princess Amidala" in a Newsweek interview.
** Also, using "Darth Vader" to refer to pre-Vader Anakin is a common mistake. Conversely, however, many people also think of "Darth Vader" as the costume that Anakin wears, whereas in ''Revenge of the Sith'' Chancellor Palpatine gives him the name Darth Vader as soon as he has helped Palpatine kill [[spoiler: Mace Windu]]; this is a good deal before he is disfigured by the lava and has to don the iconic suit.
** Vader ''is'' called "[[DubNameChange Dark Vador]]" in most French versions, which is hilariously similar to the "Dark Vader" misnomer and causes ''even more'' of this trope in different French-speaking regions. In France, due to the name's use of GratuitousEnglish (compared to "Darth Vader" not being a very language-specific name itself), quite a few French fans mistakenly label "Dark Vador" as the original English name. Meanwhile, in French Canada, the character's official name was reverted to "Darth Vader" [[InconsistentDub but the original trilogy retained its]] DubNameChange-filled European French dub, causing some people to mix up the two names, leading once again to the "Dark Vader" mistake or variations thereof.[[note]]A French-Canadian movie site, for example, has many reviews referring to the character as "Darth Vader", "Dark Vader" or "Darth Vador" but never "Dark Vador".[[/note]]
** Italian magazines sometimes get to call Darth Vader "Death Star". Or with the Italian dub name, Dart Fener.
** Creator/RogerEbert stated in his review for ''Revenge of the Sith'' that Fox could continue the series, regardless of whether or not Creator/GeorgeLucas wanted to make another one or not. Lucasfilm owned the franchise outright.
** In a 2006 cosmology book called ''Our Almost Impossible Universe'' the author cites the aliens probably aren't bad saying "It's not like Darth Vadar is going to come down and get us"(sic) which illustrates a real lack of knowledge of the six released Star Wars Movies by 2006, and equating Vader more closely with [[Franchise/FlashGordon Ming the Merciless]].
** There is an [[http://www.salon.com/1999/06/15/brin_main/ essay]] by Creator/DavidBrin criticizing ''Star Wars'' in comparison to ''Franchise/StarTrek''. See [[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/HateMail/Brin.html here]] for a rather long list of research failures.
** Minor example: Klaas Heufer-Umlauf of ''Circus Halligalli'' had Creator/SamuelLJackson as a guest and, while talking to him in English, used the German pronunciation of "Jedi", obviously unaware that [[DubNameChange it had been changed during localization]]. And so was Mr. Jackson, who laughed at him.
** Happens to some elements in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', due to the fact that they're similar but not the same as elements from the original trilogy. Jakku is often mistaken for fellow desert planet Tatooine, and Kylo Ren is often mistaken for a Sith Lord (or even Darth Vader himself).
** A newspaper article on ''The Force Awakens'' featured a graphic of Rey and Finn running from the laser fire of... an X-Wing... which is facing ''away'' from them. (The laser fire is drawn as coming from its engines.) Even more bafflingly, the X-Wing in question is already depicted firing lasers from the wing tips.
** When ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' came to theaters in Spain, a small weekly publication that was given free along with one of the Spanish people's most relevant newspapers included several incorrect statements about the original saga. It said that "... Darth Maul, so fully evil, he kills Qui Gonn (played by Liam Neeson) when he's sleeping".
* An NPR reporter once talked about the "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the]] [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]]" series, apparently mixing two franchises.
* The ''Boston Globe'' reviewer of ''Film/DonnieDarko'' seems to have taken a bathroom break during half of the film and walked out fifteen minutes before the ending. No other explanation would suffice. However, he admits to not paying attention to the part where Frank explains to Donnie that he (Frank) comes from outer space. Because the reviewer seemed sure that scene appeared in the movie.
* The whole kerfuffle that erupted over the film ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'' was because people were informed about scenes of Jesus settling down, getting married, and having sex. What they ''weren't'' informed about was that these scenes were a hallucination caused by the Devil in order to try and convince Jesus not to fulfill his destiny, walk away and have a normal life, a temptation Jesus rejected. You know, as sort of described ''in the name of the film''. Nobody listened, however, and due to staunchly Catholic {{Media Watchdog}}s, the film wasn't premiered in Mexico ''until 2005!''
* A Chilean negative review of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' called Rocky (who is a flying squirrel) "a beaver". ''[[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Rocko]]'' feels his pain.
* [[http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/05/gyllenhaa-persi.html This article]] from EW.com was written by someone who, commenting on the upcoming ''Franchise/PrinceOfPersia'' movie, was apparently completely unaware that the series had new installments in the last 20 years. As many of the commentators on the page point out, 30 seconds on Google would have cleared things up.
* In the UK series of ''Series/{{Gladiators}}'', a character refers to Spartan saying 'he doesn't have 299 friends to back him up now!'. About a second later, the commentator says '300 Greeks fought for Rome, but there's only one Spartan!'.
* For a time, Hulu described the scene from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' where Doc whisks Marty and Jennifer off to 2015 as "Doc surprises Marty and Lorraine with an urgent request to come into the future to save their kids." Lorraine is the name of his mother...but since Creator/LeaThompson has far more screen time than either Elisabeth Shue or Claudia Wells, it's understandable.
** At the time of its release, the film was described by some French newspapers as "Marty and Doc travelling into the future to find the city under the control of Griff Tannen", or some variation on it, mixing two different plot points of the film.
* The Quentin Tarantino release of ''Film/HardCoreLogo'' describes the movie as "A hilarious {{rockumentary}} in the laugh-packed tradition of ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap''... As magnetic lead singer Joe Dick holds the whole tour together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of the rock nd roll lifestyle come bursting hilariously to the surface! Featuring a memorable appearance by punk rock legend Joey Ramone... settle in and enjoy this offbeat comedy as it REALLY cranks up the laughs!" HCL has its funny moments, but it is decidedly ''not'' a hilarious comedy. Joey Ramone is in it for maybe five minutes at the beginning, and is quickly forgotten.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150908041907/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/20094/Godzilla-vs-Bioranch/overview This article from the New York Times]] wrongfully calls the film ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'' "Godzilla VS Bioranch". It's made even more annoying by the fact that the article even has a poster from the film that shows the actual title of the film.
** TV Guide's blurb for ''Film/GodzillaVsMegalon'': "Godzilla and giant robot Jet Jaguar team up to fight a giant cockroach [(Megalon, a stag beetle)] and a big black chicken [(Gigan, a bluish-green and gray reptilian cyborg with a beak and mandibles)] sent by Seatopians."
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZZR_cBfJsE This CNN report]] on ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' calls it "a new movie that producers promise will be his last, featuring every ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' friend and foe ever created." Creator/{{Toho}} stated prior to the film's release that the series would merely be put on hiatus for five to ten years, and while ''Final Wars'' does feature the largest cast of [[{{Kaiju}} giant monsters]] out of all the movies, that cast does not contain even half of [[Characters/{{Godzilla}} all the monsters created over the course of the series]] (excluding all monsters from the Heisei and Millenium continuities along with more than a few from the Showa era -- some of whom, like [=MechaGodzilla=] and Megalon, are quite famous).
** ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'':
*** While news outlets talking about the movie can be forgiven for thinking the flying monster might have been Rodan or Mothra based on the brief glimpses of it in early previews, it became less forgivable when later previews and film crew interviews made it clear that it was a new monster called a M.U.T.O. [[http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/29/just-when-you-thought-godzilla-couldnt-get-any-more-exciting-theres-a-new-trailer-and-an-old-enemy-4712592/ This article]] in particular not only misidentifies the M.U.T.O. as Mothra despite including much clearer shots from the final trailer that show it very much isn't, but also characterizes Mothra as Godzilla's ArchEnemy. Not only is King Ghidorah Godzilla's real ArchEnemy, but Mothra has been an ''ally'' of Godzilla more often than an enemy.
*** Just about ''every'' news outlet talking about the 2014 film has characterized it as the very first ''Godzilla'' movie since ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'', out of apparent ignorance of the Millennium series.[[note]]Even in terms of wide theatrical releases in the United States this is wrong, as the most recent film to see an American release prior to ''Godzilla (2014)'' was ''Film/Godzilla2000.''[[/note]]
*** Kpop Starz has become particularly notorious for disseminating wildly inaccurate stories about ''Godzilla (2014)''. They've repeatedly talked about a [[TheStinger Stinger]], allegedly "exclusive to certain Asian markets," that showed Mothra leading an army of M.U.T.O.s to [[BlowYouAway blow around humans and their vehicles]]. While there ''is'' an EasterEgg referencing Mothra, it's only in the form of the word plastered on an insect habitat. The whole Stinger angle is easily refuted by the fact that Creator/GarethEdwards has stated his distaste for post-credits scenes and {{Sequel Hook}}s in general, and would be unlikely to sign off on showing one to just a few international markets. Another article from Kpop Starz has something so blatantly inaccurate that it seems deliberate: the site mentioned that "fans are waiting for the studio to reveal the much awaited Mechagodzilla," which is true -- then they titled the article "Godzilla 2 Monsters: Mechagodzilla To Debut Together With Mothra Ghidorah And Rodan As Revealed In SDCC," which is ''not'' true.
** The 1977 "Monster Series" book on ''Godzilla'' is infamous for its incorrect information, which is partially understandable, given that any sort of info on the movies wasn't easy to come by back then. It contributed to the spread of the urban legend that the movie ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' had separate endings shot for its Japanese and American release, a false statement that was still being repeated as late as 1995, in ''The New York Times'' no less. Between mixing up the release order of certain films and getting a few plot details wrong, the book bizarrely claimed that "Gigantis" was a female monster (it's actually the [[DubNameChange name given to]] Godzilla in the American edit of ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'') who fought a fire-breathing monster called "Anzilla" (Angilas/Anguirus, and he didn't breathe fire) and wrecked Tokyo (actually Osaka).
** Generally speaking, most English-language books on Godzilla films and other kaiju movies made prior to the twenty-first century will get a lot of even the most basic information wrong due to A) [[NoExportForYou the difficulty of finding info or even the movies themselves outside of Japan]]; and B) that most authors back then [[AmericansHateTingle did not like the genre]] so they couldn't be bothered to double-check their research. One particularly common one, for some reason, is to describe ''Film/{{Matango}}'' as a kaiju movie about a giant fungus creature, despite the movie actually being a PsychologicalHorror that only shares the same special effects style of kaiju movies.
* There was a book on ''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}'' that for whatever reason called ''Film/FrankensteinConquersTheWorld'' ''Frankenstein vs. Godzilla''. Now, this could be excused by misinformation, as Godzilla was originally meant to appear in Baragon's place, but the same author also describes the movie very accurately and specifically notes Frankenstein's opponent was a completely different creature called Baragon. Possibly an error on the editors' part.
*** On the subject of ''Frankenstein Conquers the World'', when the magazine ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' covered the release of the film in North America, it mistakenly stated the movie was titled ''Frankenstein vs. the Giant Devilfish''. The error likely comes from how American distributor Henry G. Saperstein had wanted the Japanese producers to add an American-exclusive scene of Frankenstein battling a giant octopus due to his fondness for a similar scene in ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'', only to cut out the finished scene at the last minute.
* It's pretty common for non-Japanese sources (especially in the west) to say ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' was from the same creators as Godzilla, which is pretty much only true if you boil down "creator" to mean "Japanese filmmakers". The reality is that Godzilla is a Toho creation while Gamera was produced by Daiei.
** One old book on bad movies clearly written by an author who loathes Japanese kaiju movies (we won't say who it was) makes mention of a kaiju movie called ''Gyaos'', in which a giant fruit bat attacks Tokyo. He was most likely referring to ''Film/GameraVsGyaos'', but evidently wherever he got his information from forgot to include the former character in the title. Also Gyaos is meant to be a vampire bat/pterodactyl kaiju.
* David Edelstein, reviewing the ''Film/{{Bewitched}}'' movie in ''Slate'': "Using R.E.M.'s impassioned "Everybody Hurts" -- written by Michael Stipe after the suicide of Kurt Cobain -- to underscore shots of Kidman and Ferrell feeling blue about their inability to pair off is an aesthetic crime." Take Th... uh, wait a minute, that song was recorded in 1992, while Cobain died in 1994. To his credit, [[http://www.slate.com/id/2121389/ Edelstein quickly issued a (very snotty) retraction.]] "I don't like having to change something after it's published." Dude, then don't make a mistake on an easily checkable fact.\\\
Not to mention that that's not even the right song. The song about Kurt Cobain was "Let Me In", a less well-known song off the album ''Monster''. When Cobain died, Stipe had already been mourning friend River Phoenix. He had been reluctant to write about grief and retread the ground of previous album ''Automatic for the People''. Cobain's death convinced him to get his feelings out. The song is unmistakable because it's such a departure from the rest of the album. Also unmistakable is ''Everybody Hurts'', a comfort anthem with suicidal teenagers in mind. It's intentionally simple, as personal crises may not be the best time for complicated literary interpretation. This stands in stark contrast to the rest of R.E.M.'s entire body of work. Confusing these two songs is no small error from a fan's point of view.
* One particularly scathing movie review for ''Film/SilentHill'' derided the film for being based on a video game series, but praised the movie's composer for at least writing a unique cinematic score instead of relying on the video game's "[[PacManFever beeps and whistles]]". The music in the movie, of course, was taken directly from the games. Coming at this from another angle, a newspaper blurb on the game ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'' described it as being based on the movie. There were in fact several [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to the movie in ''Silent Hill: Homecoming'', so it's easy to see how they got confused. For example, The Boogeyman/Pyramid Head's design is based off his movie design, and the introduction of the Smog enemy looks almost identical to the introduction of the Armless Man in the movie.
* A ''History's Mysteries'' episode on zombies has somebody say that the North American image of zombies was something like "Freddy from ''Friday the 13th''..." Freddy's in ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''. Jason Voorhees is in ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''. At least they could both be considered [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]], [[OurMonstersAreDifferent depending on who you ask]].
* An article on a magazine about ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' stated that Film/JamesBond allied with the exiled General Medrano from Chile to destroy the Quantum Organization. Medrano is actually part of Quantum's plan (he's to be installed as dictator). It's also set in Bolivia, not Chile, though it was shot in Chile.
* Australian newspaper ''The Age'' had a still from the movie ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' and credited it as being from the upcoming movie ''Film/TheSpirit''.
* Box summaries of movies are great for this (see also [[CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer/AnimeAndManga the Anime examples]]). From the back of the DVD of ''Film/AChristmasStory'': "(Ralphie) also endures all kinds of childhood calamaties from snowsuit paralysis to the yellow-eyed Scotty Farkus affair to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit." Ralphie's brother had the snowsuit paralysis (which was never called as such), his friend Flick did the flagpole (which was not a gambit), and the yellow-eyed bully was actually named Scut Farkus.
* Marcus Berkmann in the ''Daily Telegraph'' reviewed ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' without, apparently, bothering to see the movie, as he confidently informed readers that Mr. Freeze was motivated to avenge the death of his wife, whereas in the movie the fact that his wife is very much alive (albeit, y'know, frozen) at the beginning and end of the film is an important plot point. This could have been bad phrasing, as it's technically true -- what motivates Freeze heading into the climax is a mistaken belief that Batman unfroze and in the process killed his wife.
* Sam Wollaston, TV critic for ''The Guardian'', reviewed a TV documentary titled ''The Human Spider'', about a guy who climbed a big building dressed as, obviously, ComicBook/SpiderMan. His review, however, referred to the guy as being dressed as Franchise/{{Batman}}. Because those costumes look ''so'' much alike...
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'':
** ''The Metro'' even went so far as to call the main character of ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' "Nero" and claim the film was about his adventures in AnotherDimension. Now... doesn't that sound [[Film/StarTrek2009 familiar]]?
** Another reviewer somehow confused the three main female characters in ''Reloaded'', stating that "Hero Neo must also enlist the aid of a virtual beauty, played by Carrie-Anne Moss, who captains a ship of her own." (Now we know that it's possible to be ''too'' high while watching this trilogy.)
** We could easily fill this page with reviews from that long, ''long'' summer, because a considerable number of them were written by people (people paid to write reviews of movies, mind you) who did not bother to go back and watch [[ContinuityLockout the first movie]]...
** One review claimed that mysteriously Agent Smith had become the only Agent in existence, with all the others from the first movie nowhere to be seen, and blamed this on Hugo Weaving's ego -- never mind that there are other agents in several scenes in the movie, albeit different ones from the first, but Smith is no longer an agent at all, but a virus program working for his own ends, against the mainstream machines.
** This even extends to some of the films' own DVD features. The Ultimate Matrix Collection features commentaries on all the films by three critics, who clearly hadn't been paying much attention (one of them seems to think Zion is in space rather than underground, for starters). The sequels are notorious for being impenetrable, but you're not helping your case when you screw up the few things that ''are'' clearly explained.
* An ''Indiana Daily Student'' review of ''Film/LastManStanding'' noted it was a remake of Creator/AkiraKurosawa's ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' but said, "It may seem strange to remake a Kurosawa film as a Western." The film was already remade as a western: ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''. There's also a long history of back-and-forth inspiration between westerns and samurai films. For that matter, ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' is an adaptation of Creator/DashiellHammett's novel ''Literature/RedHarvest'', set in a western U.S. town in the 1920s.
* A review of ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' opened with the following informed lines.
-->Another Japanese manga bites the dust with its cinematic adaptation: in this case, the "Dragonball Evolution" series.
* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' :
** Debbie Schlussel pilloried ''Watchmen'' as another example of "violence being aimed at children", apparently not caring that the movie is rated R and therefore children under 18 wouldn't even be able to get in. When commenters told her that it wasn't meant for children, and that not all comics are written for children, ''Watchmen'' included, she replied that the existence of action figures based on the film is conclusive proof that it was aimed at children. This ignores the fact that there are ''plenty'' of grown-ups that collect action figures, and that action figures have been made out of some ''decidedly'' not kid-friendly franchises, such as ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' and ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', as well as some ''pornographic'' comics/videos/anime.
** Ted Baehr's review of ''Watchmen'' is littered with this sort of thing: by far the most hilarious is the lament that Rorschach is seen as a psychopath because he "believes in good and evil" and "truth and justice." Really? Hurling a fake supervillain down an elevator shaft would have been more convincing evidence. Oh, and the review ends with a bilious rant on how the film "strongly affirms humanist, socialist, anti-American values promoting a socialist utopia where liberty, justice and goodness are destroyed for the sake of a totalitarian peace." Bonus points for equaling "humanist" and "anti-American" even though United States were founded as an epitome of Enlightenment-era humanism. It is also clear that it is not meant to be a utopia and Veidt's vision is just to create a world of peace unified by catastrophe, noting about sacrificing liberty or justice nor is any totalitarianism instituted.
** A "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids parent's review]]" of the ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' [[Film/{{Watchmen}} movie adaptation]], instead of reviewing the actual film, listed every single instance of violence or sexual content without mentioning anything else, then concluded that the ultimate message of the story was that "humankind is inherently savage". What? Even more hilarious, another blurb stated the movie's premise as: "After the death of one of his colleagues, the masked vigilante Rorschach sets out on a mission to kill all superheroes." (His quest was to ''save'' superheroes!)
* Then there was Ted Baehr's review of ''Film/VForVendetta,'' which accused the film of being Marxist, despite the fact that it's actually anarchist, and accused it of "Anti-Christian bigotry". It gets funnier for people living in socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, as the actions of Norsefire closely resemble communist regimes. Some would say that the severity of the regime has been downplayed.
* Somewhat similar to Ted Baehr is Caryl Matrisciana, an evangelical "occult expert" who has produced documentaries-in-name-only attacking the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise. Her research into the actual books are about as thorough as you'd expect.
** Matrisciana's 2001 video ''Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged'' goes so far as to [[GodwinsLaw try to play the Nazi card]]. At one point in the video, Matrsciana tried to link Harry with Nazism because the lightning bolt, the shape of his scar, "was used by Hitler sometimes." (The logo of the SS was meant to be two stylized lightning bolts shaped like S's.) Lightning bolt + occult + Hitler = ''Harry Potter is a devil-worshipping Nazi!!!'' By that logic, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Engineers#Corps.27_Ensign all]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(DC_Comics) of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Chargers these]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service people]] are just as guilty of promoting Nazism as Harry Potter.
** In a 2003 interview on a Christian talk radio program, Matrisciana claimed that Lord Voldemort "appears in all the books as a serpent." As anyone who didn't just flip through the books would tell you, Voldemort is disembodied through the first three books and gained a human (albeit reptilian-like) body in the fourth book. He doesn't even personally appear in ''Chamber of Secrets'' and ''Prisoner of Azkaban''. Matrisciana apparently confused Voldemort with Nagini, his animal familiar introduced in ''Goblet of Fire''.
** In defense of [[http://www.kids-in-mind.com/ kids-in-mind.com]], the site isn't geared toward "parent reviews", but "parent guides". The entire purpose of the site is to list every instance of even remotely offensive material, along with severity ratings in those categories so that parents will know whether the movies are appropriate for their children. They don't even do traditional reviews.
** Their "review" of ''Film/BatmanReturns'' (1992) mentioned that the moral was "Crime does not pay." But Catwoman commits multiple crimes throughout the story and is [[KarmaHoudini never brought to justice, even at the end]]. It also must be pointed out that the story doesn't end well for ''Batman''...who is, you know, the ''hero'' of the piece.
*** Mind you, Catwoman [[spoiler: does get killed along with the Penguin by the end]] so they're [[ExactWords technically not wrong]] on the moral.
** Somewhere out there is a review where the author assures the public that soon there will be no more superhero movies, because Hollywood has reached the point where they've made this movie "based off characters ''nobody'' has ever heard of." Um...
* A review of ''Fanboys'' by Robert Wilonsky shows that he neglected to watch the full film. At this point in time to save from possible spoilers here is the link to the review for those of you who have seen the movie [[http://www.movietome.com/pages/tracking/index.php?tid=23&ref_id=362251]] or here [[http://www.metacritic.com/movie/fanboys/critic-reviews]]
* A review of ''Film/SpyKids 2'' said that Carmen and Juni have to fight the evil Romero, and team up with a new duo of Spy Kids to aid them in their battle... Which seemed to reverse the newcomer's roles; since Romero was a good guy (made clear from his first appearance) and the Cortez siblings had to race against, and battle, Gary and Gerti. It also completely ignored Donnagon's blatant corruption and the dangers of the Transmooker device. It was like they didn't even bother to watch the film at all.
* A review for the Franchise/GIJoe [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra movie]] states "Formerly a Real American Hero, G.I.Joe is no longer a hero (it's a group)..." Funny... [[IAmNotShazam G.I.Joe has almost always referred to a group (the "almost" is there because there was actually a namesake) and not a single person, even before the '80s (when they were first called Real American Heroes).]]. The original action hero was titled like that, but the toyline (and TV series) that inspired ''Rise of Cobra'' most certainly wasn't.
* A book about the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s completely screws up the plot of ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'': "After the death of his wife, ex-outlaw (Creator/ClintEastwood) returns to violence to punish corrupt sheriff (GeneHackman) with the support of two companions (Creator/MorganFreeman and Creator/RichardHarris)". He actually returns to violence for a bounty to punish two men in Hackman's jurisdiction. He later attacks Hackman alone. The second companion is actually Jaimz Woolvett, who leaves before climax. Eastwood never shares a scene with Harris.
* A review of ''Film/ReturnToOz'' criticized the movie for having "unimaginative" characters, such as a man with the head of a pumpkin and a yellow hen. Problem was, those characters -- Jack Pumpkinhead and Billina -- are [[AdaptationDisplacement straight out of L. Frank Baum's]] ''The Land of Oz'' and ''Ozma of Oz'', which ''Return to Oz'' was based on.
* P.M. (a popular science magazine) ran a small article about nanotech "liquid metal", citing the Franchise/{{Terminator}} as example of the principle. ''A'' terminator did it, but it wasn't Ahnold's character. On top of that, the illustration they used certainly showed Franchise/{{Robocop}} instead.
* When the film adaptation of ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Hogfather]]'' was aired on Finnish TV on Christmas 2009, the review stated that in the movie they "fight bad guys, including the Reaper Man himself". Anyone who knows even the basics of Discworld should know that Death is nearly always (and especially in Hogfather) one of the ''good'' guys. Obviously the reviewer hadn't either watched the movie or failed to comprehend it.
** It is within the realm of possibility that the reviewer thought he was preserving an important spoiler concerning Death's role; he does seem rather sinister up until he starts to talk.
* A ''Daily Mail'' article viciously attacked the film ''Film/KickAss'' several weeks before its release; in particular, they claimed that the film was the brain-child of screenwriter Jane Goldman (it wasn't; the film is based on a comic book by Mark Millar), who was also the film's director (she wasn't; Matthew Vaughn was the actual director, and co-wrote the screenplay with Goldman), and that it was about a foul mouthed 11 year-old assassin (the film does in fact feature such a character, but the protagonist is a wannabe superhero). Arguably a subversion, since there's a significant possibility that the article was ''deliberately'' badly researched so that they'd have an excuse to attack Goldman, who just happens to be the wife of TV host Jonathan Ross -- who the ''Daily Mail'' despises for reasons much too long to list here.
** And the ''[[FanNickname Daily Fail]]'' strikes again with its review of ''Film/FourLions''. The picture accompanying the review is almost as long as the actual review itself. The review accuses the film of bowing to "political correctness". This, of course, being the comedy about Muslim terrorists.
* ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'' was described by a TV magazine as "in a fantasy world, a girl searches the magic dust that enables travelling between worlds." Funny how the movie never even gets to that point in the [[Literature/HisDarkMaterials book series]].
* A newspaper TV guide reviewed ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'' as (paraphrased) "Woody Harrelson as a mean zombie hunter, with Jesse Eisenberg as his supporting sidekick, in this inexplicably successful blend of horror and teen rom-com". Apart from the fact that Eisenberg is the lead, and... teen romantic comedy?
** Might be justified. Columbus (Eisenberg) is the lead in the sense that we see the events from his perspective, but he does attach himself to Tallahassee (Harrelson) in a sort of sidekick fashion. After they meet, it's Tallahassee who decides most of where they go and what they do. Teen romantic comedy, though? Um...
** This is true of most films with a romantic subplot, no matter how minor. It's automatically labelled as a "romance" or "romantic comedy", even if the romance in question has no impact on the main story.
** Columbus even goes so far as to call himself "a Sancho Panza type character".
* Many reviews of the godawful ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'' movie asked why anyone even bothered to make a movie of a game that no one's even played since the 80s (or 70s in some cases). Of course, the game has been in constant publication - and play - since its creation. What the reviews really meant was "a game I saw other kids play when I was younger but not recently because it's much easier to avoid people you don't share common interests with once you graduate from high school, and since I haven't personally seen it in a while, [[PopCultureIsolation I assume it doesn't exist any more]]."
* An early ''Magazine/{{Empire}}'' article on ''Film/BatmanBegins'' referred to Morgan Freeman's character as "Shadowy mobster Lucius Fox,' apparently confusing him with Carmine Falcone, played by Tom Wilkinson. They later made the same mistake, describing Henri Ducard as a mobster. Which is admittedly a step in the right direction. Both gaffes prompted complaints from readers.
* The [[http://www.amazon.com/Tornado-Daniel-Bernhardt/dp/B0009G3BE2/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1276829157=1-5 Amazon.com]] product description of the 2005 film ''Film/{{Tornado}}'' tells us how Josh Barnaby is haunted by the death of brother and is chasing a mile wide tornado in the Midwest. Too bad Josh's surname is Pallady, he's haunted by the death of his ''father'', the main plot has nothing to do with chasing tornadoes and everything to do with Gypsy curses, and 90% of the film takes place in Romania.
** Perhaps they confused it with the Bruce Campbell movie of the same name? The box art does look similar...
*** Except Bruce Campbell's Tornado was 1996 TV movie, his character was named Jacob Thorne and the plot of that movie involves placing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOtable_Tornado_Observatory TOTO- like device]] in the path of a tornado (which you may recall was the plot of ''Film/{{Twister}}'', which was released three days later).
* The book ''Film in Australia: An Introduction'' by Albert Moran and Errol Vieth screwed up its section on ''Film/{{Lantana}}''. Apparently, they chose to get most of the cast's names from the end credits instead of actually paying attention to the film, and in the process failed to notice that the cast were billed in order of appearance. Thus, they referred to Vince Colosimo's character Nik D'amato as Steve Valdez and his wife Paula as Lisa, who were the fourth and fifth billed characters, right after Leon, Sonja and Jane (three points of the film's love square), but were fairly unimportant to the story. More understandably, they called Geoffrey Rush's character John Somers instead of John Knox (his wife was named Valerie Somers), and more inexplicably, they called Peter Phelps' character Alex instead of Patrick, even though there's no character by that name in the film. Ironically, they still got most of the plot details right.
* A reviewer of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' (one of the few who gave it a positive review) describes how "Aang and friends travel on a flying six-legged albino beaver." The "beaver" in question is actually a bison, and not an albino. Not surprisingly that a positive review came from someone who likely never saw the movie and certainly never watched the TV show on which it is based.
** [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_airbender/articles/1891859/gorgeous_imagerybeautifully_wrought_special_effects_fantasy_fun_for_all_agesim_talking__of_course_about_the_last_airbender_website/ This reviewer]] thinks that the movie took place in the far future, as well as [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100630/REVIEWS/100639999/1023 Roger Ebert]].
*** There is at least an explanation for that one. Some of the promotional material for the film given to critics did make that claim, apparently based on the very early development of the TV series, where that was originally to be the case.
* A small but still irksome example: In an article covering ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', Fangoria repeatedly referred to Terrance Zdunich's character as "Gravedigger."
* The Parents Television Council's [[http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/moviereviews/PTC/2006/friedworms.asp review of the film version]] of ''How to Eat Fried Worms'' opens with the following statement: "The beloved children's classic ... has come to life in this faithful adaptation of Thomas Rockwell's novel." If the movie is so faithful, how do they explain the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Eat_Fried_Worms_(film)#Differences_from_the_book differences from the book]] listed on the Wikipedia article?
* A crossword puzzle provided the clue "Comden and Green musical" for "Auntie Mame." Trouble is, ''Literature/AuntieMame'' isn't a musical, at least not under that 10-letter title, and Creator/ComdenAndGreen only wrote the screenplay for the film of the play that Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee adapted from Patrick Dennis's original story. There is a musical adaptation, titled simply ''Mame'', which Comden and Green had nothing to do with.
* The repeated insistences that the flying ship in ''Film/{{Stardust}}'' is original to the movie and not featured in the book. While Gaiman doesn't elaborate on Tristran and Yvaine's adventure on the ship, its captain has a different name and it isn't a pirate ship, it does in fact appear in the book, and serves roughly the same purpose in the plot.
* In 2011, Celio (a cloth shop franchise in France) decided to do a special Star Wars themed collection. The iconic vehicle of the saga they used for their TV advertisement? A [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 mkII Viper]].
* [[http://animatedviews.com/2011/superman-the-motion-picture-anthology-blu-ray-collection/ This review]] of the ''Film/{{Superman}}'' Motion Picture Anthology Blu-Ray keeps crediting Bud Collyer as the lead of the 1940s serials and portrayer of Lois Lane's father in the extended version of the first movie. However, Bud Collyer voiced Superman in the radio series ''Radio/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'', the WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons, and the animated TV series ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman''. Additionally, he died nine years before the ''Superman'' motion picture anthology began. Creator/KirkAlyn actually acted as the lead in the serials, and Lois' father in the first movie. The Blu-ray bonus features state the differences between Collyer and Alyn more than once.
* The author of ''The New York Times''' [[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/movies/14dvd.html review]] of some remastered Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein [=DVDs=] expressed disappointment when he read the back cover of ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}'' saying that it came with a film adaptation of its predecessor, ''Film/{{Liliom}}'', assumed this referred to the 1930 adaptation, but then found himself watching Creator/FritzLang's 1934 movie. One must wonder why he felt surprised, since the back DVD cover and the insert listing production notes and DVD features and chapters clearly list the 1934 adaptation among the bonus features. (Granted, other people anticipated the inclusion of the 1930 movie, but they did so ''before'' obtaining the DVD.)
* ''1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die'' has a few mistakes, the worst of which is probably claiming, in its review of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' that Michael Biehn played John Connor in ''Film/TheTerminator'', as opposed to Kyle Reese.
* At least one review of the first Tomb Raider movie complained of the sets of Angkor Wat and Lara's home being overdone, overdecorated, over the top, and just generally not credible. The scenes were shot on location, or on sets created to match the locations.
* The book ''Planet Of The Apes Chronicles'' is well known among ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' fans for its many errors in regards to the films.
* Some movie theaters used to give patrons a pamphlet with one-sentence descriptions of current movies. According to to one, ''Film/TheMummyReturns'' was about the main characters discovering their son was the reincarnation of Osiris.
* Creator/RogerEbert has a few:
** He believed that the Bug's goal in ''Film/MenInBlack'' was to "conquer the Earth". The Bug had no interest in Earth at all outside of the fact that it had to go there to retrieve the Galaxy. The threat to Earth was due to a galactic federation of sorts preparing to destroy Earth to prevent the bug from succeeding.
** In his review for ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', he mixed up Ash's chainsaw and shotgun hands.
** In his review for ''Film/{{Gojira}}'', he claimed that the character Emiko is the fiance' of Serizawa's son. Emiko is actually Serizawa's fiance', and though she loves another man, that man is not related to Serizawa.
** He also thinks that Peevy invented the jetpack in ''Film/TheRocketeer''.
** In his review of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', he compares Batman and the Joker and how their lives went different ways after traumatic events in their childhood. Except that traumatic childhood the Joker describes is a lie, and he gives a contradicting story later.
** A (positive) review of ''Film/ChasingAmy'' switched the male HeterosexualLifePartners' personalities and quotes (but not roles in the movie) around, rendering poor Ebert confused and disappointed.
** Ebert mixed up the characters of Brodie and Banky in his review of ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back''. However, as they are both played by Jason Lee, have similar names, appeared as snarky sidekicks in previous Kevin Smith films, and have a comparatively minor role in this one, it is probably understandable.
** The photo caption in [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010624/REVIEWS08/106240301/1023 this review]] of ''Film/SchindlersList'' incorrectly identifies Liam Neeson as Ralph Fiennes, and indirectly implies that [[{{Nazi}} Ralph]] [[AxeCrazy Fiennes's character]] was in the business of ''saving'' Jews. Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson do look shockingly similar, though.
** More Roger Ebert. In [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091223/REVIEWS/912239991 this review]] of Creator/GuyRitchie's ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', he accuses the movie of tossing 'aside the deerstalker hat and meerschaum calabash' (neither of which were ever mentioned in the novel) and also that 'Watson has decided for once and all to abandon the intimacy of 221B for the hazards of married life' (he was married at least twice in the books). Also apparently originally Watson was always 'fretful and frightened' - a base libel against Watson who fought bravely in the Afghan war and was always staunchly by Holmes' side whatever the danger.
*** The first could be said to be a fair comparison to previous Holmes films, the second is a completely accurate description of the plot. The third, though, there's no reason for.
*** Ebert does the same for Bond films... they are compared to other Bond movies and not the books.
** Roger Ebert's review of ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' contains this quote: "One of the key characters in this film is Toby (played by Toby Froud). Froud is a midget who has been given a Muppet head to wear." The character he's thinking of is Hoggle, played by Shari Weiser. Toby is Sarah's baby brother, played by non-midget baby Toby Froud.
** The first paragraph of his review of ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'' reads as follows: "There are a lot of problems with ''Halloween III'', but the most basic one is that I could never figure out what the villain wanted to accomplish if he got his way. His scheme is easy enough to figure: He wants to sell millions of Halloween masks to the nation’s kiddies and then brainwash them to put them on at the same time, whereupon laser beams at the base of the neck will fry the tykes. Meanwhile, he runs a factory that turns out lifelike robots. What’s his plan? Kill the kids and replace them with robots? Why?" While he has the basics of Cochran's "scheme" correct, Roger seems not to understand that Cochran has no such convoluted "plan" in mind--he's just doing what he's doing ForTheEvulz. Additionally, the factory we see in the movie doesn't manufacture Cochran's automatons--it makes the Silver Shamrock masks and the medallions that attach to them which "fry the tykes."
*** This isn't even the most egregious error he makes in the review: he also apparently believed the film to be an ImmediateSequel to ''Film/HalloweenII1981'' and confused the assassin who immolates himself in the film’s opening for Michael Myers[[note]]possibly due to Myers having also been incinerated in a hospital at the end of ''II'', albeit under wildly different circumstances[[/note]]. The film is very much in its own AlternateContinuity, which is bluntly established by the fact that ''Film/Halloween1978'' exists in-universe; additionally, ''Halloween II'' took place on November 1st (being a continuation of the first film's Halloween night massacre), while ''Season of the Witch'' begins several days prior to Halloween.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse
** ''Film/IronMan1'':
*** Starring Robert Downey Jr. as [[http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/57/1210171758386fy6.png Tony]] [[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22iron+man%22+%22tony+spark%22&rlz=1R2GGLL_en-GBGB376&aq=f&aqi=g-sx10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Spark]]. If you think that's bad, Swedish ''Metro'' called him [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost Robert Frost]].
*** The freeview T.V synopsis described Iron Man as starring Robert Downey Jr. as Robert Stack, a billionaire playboy.
** A ridiculous number of reviews for ''Film/IronMan2'' refer to Creator/ScarlettJohansson's character as "[[Comicbook/BlackWidow Natalie Rushman]]," the false identity she uses when she first appears in the film. Understandable if the reviewer is attempting to avoid spoiling the character's true identity (thought neither the movie's advertising campaign nor the movie itself are particularly subtle about it) but somewhat clueless in reviews that go on to identify her as the Black Widow. Moviefone calling her "Natasha Rushman" didn't help.
** While doing a piece on ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Entertainment Weekly claimed that ComicBook/TheFalcon was a ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} agent and a colleague of ComicBook/BlackWidow and ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} from ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. In reality, Falcon is an ex-member of the U.S. Air Force, and the fact that he's ''not'' affiliated with S.H.I.E.L.D. is the main reason Captain America recruits him in the first place.
** Since the character isn't very well known, several reputable news outlets claimed that Creator/PaulRudd had been cast in the ''Film/AntMan'' movie as Henry Pym. In reality, Rudd plays Scott Lang, Pym's [[LegacyCharacter successor]].
** When Daniel Brühl was cast in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', several outlets erroneously reported that he'd be playing Baron Mordo, a prominent ComicBook/DoctorStrange villain, and that he was being positioned to play the BigBad in the ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' movie. In reality, he was cast to play Baron ''Zemo'', a Captain America villain with absolutely no connection to Strange, while Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (who needless to say, does not look like Brühl) wound up playing Mordo.
** Related, but after a magazine covering ''Civil War'' mistakenly referred to Comicbook/WarMachine as "War Hammer," multiple websites (including truly credible ones that should have known better) reported that War Machine was officially being renamed War Hammer for the film. At no point in the movie does anything of the sort occur.
** When Creator/BrieLarson was cast as the title heroine in the ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' movie, CNN ran the headline "Shazam! Brie Larson is 'Captain Marvel'." Apparently, nobody told them they were thinking of [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} the wrong Captain Marvel]] (whose [[Film/Shazam2019 own movie]] was about to be released itself).
** One article reported that ''Captain Marvel'''s [[TheNineties '90s]] time frame sets it at an earlier time period than any other MCU movie. If the author saw ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', he would've realized that the [[TheForties '40s]] period piece has ''Captain Marvel'' beat.
** Prior to the release of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', numerous sites began reporting that Cate Blanchett was playing "Hela aka Mistress Death", and that Thanos was in love with her. While Blanchett ''was'' playing Hela, Thanos was not in love with her nor did he have a role in the film, and Mistress Death and Hela are are completely separate characters (the former not actually existing in the MCU as of current knowledge). The confusion seems to stem from Hela referring to herself as the "Goddess of Death" in a few trailers (and the film proper), leading to journalists finding and researching Mistress Death, whom Thanos ''is'' in love with in the comics, and assuming she and Hela were one and the same.
** Heise is one of the few German publishers of IT stuff that you can actually take seriously. Not the movie reviews in their ''Telepolis'' section, however. When they had a look at ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', they apparently already "knew" that the superhero fad was ending, and didn't bother to actually pay attention to the film, assuming that they at least went and watched it [[note]]some of the words used in the review suggest that they simply looked it up on a few English Web sites or something[[/note]]. Thus, while the writer acknowledges that it targets people who have seen its predecessors (which he, of course, criticizes), he states that the Hulk is with the Asgardians "for some reason", seemingly or actually unaware that he had outright co-starred in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. As for Thanos, the review states that he wants to collect the Infinity Stones in order to "balance the universe", which is correct, but also that he is most interested in the humans "for some obscure reason" and has to eradicate half of them – nope, he wants to eradicate half of the entire universe's population, and he and his henchmen come to Earth because two of the Stones are there (duh). It proceeds to claim that almost everything takes place on nameless planets – nope, only half of the movie does (also, didn't the previous section say that Thanos focuses on the Earthlings?), and each world has a name that is mentioned several times – and that even fans (who are called dumb for wanting to avoid {{spoiler}}s) will hardly be satisfied this time. Guess what, most fans (and most other professional critics) are.
** A Marvel Studios Movie Magazine for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' features brief biographies for the characters from the film, recapping what had happened in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. In the one for Comicbook/ScarletWitch, they state under "Present Whereabouts" that "[she] survived [the snap]". Her disintegration appeared in one of the trailers.
* From the back of the ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' Blu Ray: "Joker (Matthew Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Gomer (Vincent D'Onfrio), Eightball (Dorian Harewood), Cowboy (Arliss Howard) and more experience boot-camp hell pitbullied by a leatherlung D.I. (Lee Ermey)." Anyone who has seen the movie can note two things wrong with this. First, Animal Mother and Eightball aren't in boot-camp with the others. Second, "Gomer" is better known as either Leonard (his real name) or Pvt. Pyle (always with the rank added to it). He is called Gomer exactly one time in the entire movie.
* Before the release of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', a caller to the Radio/RushLimbaugh show claimed that the main villain, Bane, was a derogatory reference to Bain Capital, which Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney once ran. This despite the fact that Bane first appeared as a character in 1993, when Romney was running Bain, but the name wouldn't have had much significance to the general public. This got so bad that several people involved in the movie had to deny it.
** Some bloggers came out with the comparison first, and Creator/JonStewart, for one, repeated it ''days'' before Limbaugh mentioned it (by all indications he assumed they were right). Incidentally, the guy who created Bane, Chuck Dixon, [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn is himself a conservative]], and allegedly ended up blacklisted from Creator/DCComics over his right-wing views (particularly his stance on LGBT issues).
** Limbaugh also got mocked for claiming that Bane has four eyes and breathes fire.
* In Creator/OrsonScottCard's review of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', he says how noble it was of Batman to choose Harvey Dent over Rachel in the SadisticChoice, showing he was thinking about the city. Yet he actually didn't, Batman chose to save Rachel, and only ended up saving Harvey because the Joker had switched their locations around.
* Gene Siskel mocked ''Film/RapaNui'' over what he thought was a ridiculous contest involving retrieving an egg from an island. While the film wasn't very accurate with history, the contest did indeed exist.
* {{Website/Cracked}} has many examples that earn some angry comments. While they're also guilty of "[[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory you're getting the wrong message]]" at times, others are plain "you plain missed something":
** [[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-ways-were-failing-to-live-up-to-back-to-future-2/ Another one claims]] that Mr. Fusion was introduced in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. Actually, Mr. Fusion makes an appearance in the final scene of the original movie. The fact that the scene in question was reshot for the sequel doesn't help.
** In David Wong's article "6 Harsh Truths that Will Make You a Better Person", his first "truth" is the speech Blake (Alec Baldwin) gives to the salesmen in the film ''Film/GlengarryGlenRoss''. Not only does he seem to not understand that the whole point of that scene was to illustrate how soulless American industry has become (he praises Blake's speech and suggests that the sooner we all learn the truth of how the world only cares about what you can give them, the happier and more successful we'll all be), but he also blatantly gets one fact wrong: he says the scene is so powerful that Baldwin received an Academy Award nomination for the film despite it being his only scene. Baldwin did not, in fact, get an Oscar nod for the film. Al Pacino did, and despite being nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Pacino's ([[BillingDisplacement top-billed]]) role was far from a cameo.
** Another article referred to the then-upcoming first ''Transformers'' film, and how it looked like it was completely screwing with established Transformer history. It was, but not for the reasons ''Cracked.com'' assumed. For one thing, it complained about changing Optimus Prime's look so that he barely resembled Prime anymore. This might be a valid complaint if Prime had not already changed looks several times prior to that, and the movie version was actually much ''closer'' to the classic look. Also, for some reason, they decided based on the teaser trailer that the Transformers in this movie would not speak, despite it already being on record that Peter Cullen had been signed to voice Optimus Prime again.
* A forgivable mistake, but one issue of ''National Geographic Kids'' refers to Bugsy the guinea pig from ''Film/BedtimeStories'' as a hamster.
* ''Magazine/TVGuide'' has been known to get the ContentWarnings movies wrong when describing them. When ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' started to show on cable, they claimed it included Nudity among the warnings. (Not only was there no nudity in this movie, the most risqué thing shown between Timothy Dalton and the female lead was a rather deep kiss; the movie was tame by Bond standards, which is actually rather tame to begin with.
* ''The Atlantic'', among many, many others, referred to Tom Hooper's film adaptation of ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' as taking place during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, when it actually takes place during the June Rebellion, which occurred over 30 years later. The movie even opens with on-screen text explaining that it has been 26 years since the French Revolution began.
* Many people accuse ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' of having the CaptainObviousAesop of "eating three meals a day of fast food is bad for you." As explained in the film, the point of the central stunt is not just to show that this habit is bad for you, but to show ''how'' bad it is for you, which surprises even the host's doctors. Also, the rest of the documentary is about how saturated American culture has become with fast food.
* Ken Hanke's book ''Tim Burton: An Unauthorized Biography'' (thank God it wasn't authorized!) has plenty of errors for those who are familiar with Creator/TimBurton's movies. The most obvious one is when Hanke misquotes Pee-wee Herman's catchphrase in ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' as "I know I am, but what are you?" (thus [[CompletelyMissingThePoint utterly destroying the premise behind the joke]]), but he also claims that in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' the Ice Princess was "an accomplice" in the Penguin's plot to frame Batman...when in fact she was ''not'' an accomplice, she had never even heard of (much less seen) the Penguin until less than thirty seconds before being abducted by him, and the scheme against Batman did ''not'' end well for her (which Hanke at least bothers to mention). He even cites "facts" that have nothing to do with Burton, such as that Creator/WillSmith and Creator/TommyLeeJones were in ''Film/IndependenceDay'' together (he was thinking of ''Film/MenInBlack'', as ''Independence Day'' did not have Jones at all).
* The New York Observer's Rex Reed is a repeat offender; not only did he inexplicably describe a scene in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' in which "vampires circle the moon and suck the hot stud’s blood,” ([[http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2012/04/12/how-i-lost-my-respect-for-rex-reed while also failing to make much of the]] PostModernism plot) he accused ''The Dark Knight'' of a ContinuitySnarl for introducing ComicBook/TheJoker as though he's making his debut despite the fact that he already appeared in the 1989 film, which is ''a separate continuity''.
* Although the film ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' actually contains [[ThePowerOfLove a strong moral message]], one MoralGuardian named Travis Ragon provided a detailed description of its faults [[http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=39537 to a Christian news site]]: "...instances of the Lord's name being used in vain, pervasive sexual innuendo, gratuitous depictions of sexual acts, and a scene that apparently has left some viewers feeling emotionally raped." If you didn't see any of those things in the movie, well... neither did Ragon. The article continues: "Ragon has not seen Les Miserables. '[[CriticalResearchFailure I try to research any movies which I might watch]], including ones in my home,' he said." FacePalm.
* [[http://www.nickjr.com/home/ffk-the-oogieloves.jhtml Nick Jr's]] ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'' page says that it's Goobie who wears pants that fall down, when it's actually Toofie. This might be due to them misinterpreting the movie's PhraseCatcher as "Goobie Toofie, pick up your pants", when the first word in the sentence is supposed to be "Goofy".
* The DVD box cover for the movie ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'' says "It's pitch black on an abandoned ship 500 miles from the Earth". 500 miles is barely higher than the Hubble Space Telescope orbits, and is far, far below where most of our weather and GPS satellites are (26,000 miles up). The actual ship in the movie is en route to a different star [[spoiler: and turns out to have been there all along underwater]].
* The plot description on the video box for ''Film/BigDaddy'' says that "when [Sonny's] girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed... and he can't return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny!" In actuality, the kid was sent to Sonny's apartment before he knew his girlfriend had decided to leave him for an older man (though Sonny does suspect she'll dump him earlier), and he is able to return the kid after he finds out, only to decide to keep him when he's about to take him to social services. He convinces the social worker to let him keep the kid until he can find a family for the kid, and avoids answering phone messages from the social worker after he finds a family.
* A Chinese military officer accuses the film ''Film/PacificRim'' of being American Propaganda and saying that the plot of the movie from everything from the Jaeger program, the Wall, and the final assault were all orchestrated by the Americans to "save the world by playing the part of world police," the Pan Pacific Defense Corps is run by the Americans, among other things. To say he is misinformed would be putting it lightly, and the fact that by the time he made this statement the movie was rolling in the cash in China makes his timing very odd.
* The description on the video box for the original video release of ''{{Film/UHF}}'' refers to one of the shows as "Stanley Spadowski's Playhouse", instead of "Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse".
* A story on Creator/ChrisHemsworth in the Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times, for the film ''Film/{{Rush 2013}}'', mentions that he played "George Kirk, brother of James" in ''Film/StarTrek2009''. George Kirk was James T. Kirk's ''father''.
* Many reviews which were critical of ''Film/ThreeHundred'' brought up the Crypteia, the annual hunting of Helots in Sparta; one reviewer even suggests that the backstory of Leonidas's encounter with a wolf was a white-washing of him taking part in the Crypteia. However there is no evidence of the Crypteia taking place before 464 BCE, where it was started as retaliation for a massive Helot uprising after an earthquake destroyed Sparta. The Battle Of Thermopyle took place in 480 BCE. KieronGillen made the same mistake and used it as the inspiration for Three.
* Mistakes people make about ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' are annoyingly common. Even worse, they're normally by people who've actually seen the movie! They include:
** People thinking that Bruce only had God's powers for a week. This is never stated, and mid-way through God actually said "You've had my powers for a little over a week now", so this can't be right, as we know Bruce had his powers for several more days at minimum. Even the DVD cover and the TRAILERS make this mistake, as does the title of the Italian dub, "Una Settimana da Dio" (A week as God).
** People thinking Bruce's powers only worked in Buffalo. This is wrong; Bruce only got PRAYERS from Buffalo, but he could use his powers anywhere. This is especially obvious when Bruce moves the moon.
** People thinking that Bruce and Grace are married. This one is least forgivable, since it's a major plot point that Grace wants Bruce to propose to her. Anyone who makes this mistake clearly wasn't paying attention when they watched the film.
** There are also several people who [[ComicallyMissingThePoint miss the point]] of the movie, by complaining that Bruce used his powers frivolously, not helping others, humiliating his rival, punishing some thugs that had beaten him up, (accidentally and unknowingly) killing thousands of people and *Gasp* [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking having pre-marital sex]]. They clearly missed the point of Bruce intentionally being an imperfect person, who can learn a lesson during the movie.
** [[http://cda.uat-thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/5044158/10-most-over-the-top-orgasms-on-film.html This]] article also claims it was Morgan Freeman (well, his character) who made Grace orgasm with his voice. It was actually Bruce, using God's powers.
* ''Paranormal Activity''
** The malevolent entity of ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' is a demon, ''not'' a ghost. This hasn't stopped some people - even people who have seen the film(s) - from claiming otherwise.
** The Netflix description of ''Film/ParanormalActivity3'' says it is a sequel instead of a ''prequel'' to the series, and that ''[[Film/ParanormalActivity4 PA4]]'' takes place five years after ''[=PA3=]'' instead of ''[[Film/ParanormalActivity2 PA2]]''.
* Advance leaks in the press before ''Film/EyesWideShut'''s release had it that Creator/TomCruise's character had sex with a woman next to her father's corpse. The press severely garbled the scene in which Cruise's character visited a woman to pay condolences after her father's death. There was no corpse present, and though she tried to hit on him and was immediately rebuffed, there was no sex in that scene.
** Another completely wrong pre-release rumor in the press had it that Cruise and Nicole Kidman played psychiatrists who had sex with their patients.
* Comments from director Colin Treverrow on ''Film/JurassicWorld'' not dwelling on the events of the previous two sequels to ''Film/JurassicPark'' that much have led to many outlets assuming that they had been stricken from the timeline entirely. The movie and the ViralMarketing actually make a handful of nods toward ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' and ''Film/JurassicParkIII''.
* Almost all coverage of ''Film/TropicThunder'' referred to Creator/JackBlack's character as Jeff "Fats" Portnoy, as if "Fats" is Portnoy's InSeriesNickname. It's actually the name of Portnoy's character in the [[ShowWithinAShow film within the film]].
* [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/final-destination-5 This]] review of ''Film/FinalDestination5'' claims that Sam consciously saved his girlfriend, boss, and six other people after he saw the premonition. That's ''technically'' true: they were saved because they tried to get him back on the bus, only to realize that he was right and make it off on time. The author also says that someone is snapped in half [[spoiler: when it's actually being sliced in half by a plane wing]], and that teens are stalked in the movie when the youngest victim is 24 years old, and that there was tons of blood and gore (when this movie was actually ''less'' gory than the previous film.
* The Sunday People's review of ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'' criticized the fact the titular anti-hero had cancer, saying it was only added to the plot to make Wade Wilson sympathetic. It's actually lifted straight from the source [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Marvel comic books]], and is part of his origin story.
** And of course, the countless amounts of people that claim the film is the first R-rated comic book movie despite the dozens upon dozens released in the past, with the honor of being the first (or at least first major release) being ''Film/TheCrow''.
* In [[http://moviepilot.com/posts/4012736 an article]] about ''Film/PowerRangers2017'', Movie Pilot mentions that Alpha 5 will be in the movie. This is illustrated using a photo of Alpha 6.
* In the ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Sleepover", the [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] movies are said to be about an evil puppet rather than a possessed doll.
* Partners In Kryme's song "Turtle Power", from the ''official soundtrack'' for Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990, claims that ''Raphael'' is the Turtles' leader. As any kid at the time could have told you, Leonardo is the leader.
* The live-action ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' movie has given rise to some of this.
** [[https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2017/03/michael-pitts-kuze-gets-a-ghost-in-the-shell-character-poster-new-featurettes-and-clip-released/ One article for Flickeringmyth]] contained the following description of the Major, which would make just about any generic science fiction fan twitch: ''"one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid."'' But "{{cyborg}}" '''already means''' a "hybrid" of cybernetics with organic lifeforms. "Human cyborg" would be accurate (as the character has a human mind); even "human-cybernetic hybrid" or "human-robot hybrid" would be at least ''accurate''; "human-cyborg hybrid" however, is equal parts redundant and nonsensical.
** [[http://movieweb.com/ghost-in-shell-movie-2017-video-clip-water-fight/ This Movieweb article]] includes the following sentence: ''" The Major's "shell" can render her completely invisible, blending seamlessly into any environment. While we don't know much about the character whom The Major is fighting, he is clearly out-matched, as The Ghost sends this man flying back farther and farther with each powerful punch and kick."'' This seems to indicate the reviewer of the preview clip in question thinks the Major's also called "The Ghost", is the specific "Ghost" of the title, or at least that her ability to turn invisible in her cybernetic body is somehow what the title is referring to. In actuality, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell the title of the original manga]] is a ShoutOut to an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_in_the_Machine old science fiction novel]], which is referencing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine philosophy concept]]; and further, in the franchise itself, "ghost" is a generic term (read: not referring to any ''one'' character) for the sentient, sapient part of the mind that makes us (legally) human, regardless of whether or not you've had "enhancements". This is the cyberpunk equivalent of calling Frankenstein's Monster just "Literature/{{Frankenstein}}"...and much like that common error, it would have been easily avoided by ''Googling'' for basic information about the story.
* Speaking of ''Ghost in the Shell'', let's talk about ''Film/TheGreatWall'':
** In the wake of the controversies over the casting of European-descent actors in Asian roles in ''Ghost'' and ''Dr. Strange'' came [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVw9YdP1O-0 the trailer]] for ''Film/TheGreatWall'', a Chinese-American coproduction starring (at least in the trailer) Creator/MattDamon. Constance Wu of ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'' wrote a long Facebook post, echoed by other Asian-Americans, accusing "Hollywood" (despite the clear credit given to Chinese director Zhang Yimou) of making "yet another" film casting a white person as Asian (the trailer never states or even suggests his character is Chinese, nor does he appear to have been made up that way, and in fact in the film his character is indeed European), of suggesting that Damon's character was a WhiteSavior who built the Great Wall (in fact the trailer clearly uses "they"). When the actual film was released, all these assumptions turned out to be unfounded (Damon's character is really in the film to make it salable to an American audience), yet few of those who originally criticized it as whitewashing were willing to come out and say they were mistaken.
* A ''Billboard'' magazine article from 1998 claims that the 1996 version of ''Film/ShallWeDance'' is a Studio Ghibli film. (To be fair, most of the article is about Studio Ghibli, so it'd be easy for a writer not familiar with the material to get confused.)
* A few summaries of ''Film/TheInvisibleWoman1983'' claim that Sandy became an InvisibleStreaker after drinking her uncle's invisibility formula. Actually, the formula had been spilled and she wiped it up, absorbing the formula through her skin.
* An [=IMDb=] review of ''Film/{{REC}}'' calls the journalist main character "Niña Medeiros" and says that she is played by Javier Botet. The main character is called Ángela Vidal, she is played by Manuela Velasco, and the "Niña Medeiros" (literally "Medeiros Girl") is a FinalBoss monster played by Javier Botet - a ''man.''
* [[https://twitter.com/actionhankbeard/status/1041851320691564544 A photo]] from the set of the forthcoming ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 movie]] showed Creator/JamesMarsden talking to Creator/JimCarrey as [[BigBad Dr. Robotnik]]. Or at least Twitter user Nuri claimed the person was Jim Carrey. [[https://twitter.com/AmandaFlagg/status/1041858281717739520 It was quickly clarified]] the man Marsden was talking to was actually [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003964/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Frank C. Turner]]. When you consider that [[https://twitter.com/TailsChannel/status/1030208642065334273 Carrey had already shown off his official haircut for the movie,]] one must question how Nuri mistook Turner for Carrey.
* When ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' was announced, many news outlets touted it as the first black superhero/comic book movie. Fans of ''Film/TheMeteorMan'' (not based on a comic book, but still), ''Film/{{Spawn}}'', and ''Film/{{Blade}}'' (not a superhero movie, but based on a comic book) respectfully disagree.
* A Mexican movie magazine did a report about San Diego Comic-Con, which, apart from treating the comic geeks attending it with various levels of contempt got a picture of two girls cosplaying with this caption "80's fever: Mario Bros. princess, is still in fashion", the movie the girls in the picture were actually cosplaying... ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''. Which at the time had not even been out of theatres for a year.
* A truly bad example of this that ultimately got the film's release delayed indefinitely came with the 2019 American horror film ''The Hunt'', a HuntingTheMostDangerousGame movie with an added SlobsVersusSnobs and political angle, in which the [[RichBitch wealthy villains]] are coded as "blue state" liberals and the {{working class hero}}es are coded as "red state" conservatives (the WorkingTitle was even ''Red State vs. Blue State''). One might think that the film was designed to appeal to conservative audiences who distrusted liberals, and indeed, it did raise eyebrows among liberal pundits and outlets... but that wasn't where the real controversy came from. ''That'' came when conservative pundits and outlets [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/liberals-hunt-conservatives-film/ mistook the film]] for one where the audience was supposed to be ''{{rooting for|TheEmpire}}'' the rich hunters, even though the trailer made it obvious where the audience's sympathy is supposed to lie. Combine that with the specter of two high-profile mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio within twenty-four hours of one another, and Creator/{{Universal}} put the film on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment, citing TooSoon as the reason why.
* Thomas Pope's screenwriting guide ''Good Scripts, Bad Scripts'' says that ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' screenwriter Diane Thomas was unable to write the sequel due to AuthorExistenceFailure. In fact, she was unable to work on the sequel because of other commitments. ''The Jewel Of The Nile'' finished filming three months before Thomas' fatal car accident.
* More than a few people on Twitter, including journalists, scaremongered about ''Film/Joker2019'' potentially inspiring a mass shooting during screenings of the movie in the style of the Cinemark Aurora shooting. The attempts to identify Joker as a recurring factor in both, however, proved that none of them actually knew anything but a few scant details about the shooting. The movie playing during the shooting was ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', where Joker was nowhere to be seen, and the shooter did not dress up like Joker, or even look ''anything'' like the Joker (he had dyed his hair orange and wore tactical gear to the shooting.) Both things involving a movie about a DC property set in Gotham with some connection to Batman is literally the only thing tying the ''Joker'' movie and the shooting together.

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* The {{Creator/Netflix}} section:
** The blurb for ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' states that Orlando Bloom's character takes up his sword to free the Holy Land from the Turks. That would be true if the movie were about the first crusade--it's actually about Saladin's recapture of the Holy Land ''from'' Crusaders, who had been occupying it for almost a century. And that would still be wrong, because the conflict is between the Crusaders and ''Arabs'' (and Persians—Saladin was a Kurd).
** In the film description of the ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' on [[http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/The-Rocky-Horror-Picture-Show/60000448?strackid=32e2e90d294e6552_0_srl&strkid=894448976_0_0&trkid=438381 Netflix]] it describes the plot as "... the exploits of naïve couple Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) after they stumble upon the lair of transvestite vampire Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry)." Vampire? Really?
** Streaming service listed ''Film/SuddenDeath'' (a movie that takes place at a hockey game and even has [[SuddenDeath a hockey-term title]]), as taking place at a ''baseball'' game.
** The description Netflix has for ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' says that Luther is one of the team members that helps Ethan on his mission to clear his name from the terrorist attack at the Kremlin. Luther only shows up for the last few minutes of the movie, however.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** ''Film/XMen1'':
*** A review, this one appearing in the ''New Times Los Angeles'', blasted the film for departing from the comic's signature yellow-and-blue costumes, and for giving ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, the "master of all evil", a sympathetic Holocaust-survivor {{backstory}}. Which shows that he did actually read the comic... in the 1960s, and not once since.
*** Similarly, ''The New York Times'' had a piece on ''Film/{{Valkyrie}}'' that erroneously claimed that Creator/BryanSinger came up with the idea of Magneto's Holocaust backstory.
*** A negative review of in ''People Magazine'', among other things, said, "Since when do superheroes have such traumatic backstories?" Oh, since about [[Franchise/{{Batman}} 1939]]?[[note]][[Franchise/{{Superman}} 1938]] if we count mass-extinction. Earlier still, if we count comic adaptations of pre-existing superheroes like Radio/TheShadow, Franchise/DocSavage, or ComicStrip/ThePhantom.[[/note]]
*** A Dutch magazine claimed the first ''X-Men'' movie was about Xavier having to stop his evil ''brother'' Magneto.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'':
*** In a ridiculously inaccurate negative review by Stephen Hunter in ''The Washington Post'', it quickly became clear that he either did not bother to watch the movie, or was distracted for most of its length. At one point, he said that Rogue had the power to ''reverse time'', even going so far as to call her "the Mistress of Rewind". He was apparently confused by the scenes in which she extinguishes flames (using Pyro's power) and makes Wolverine's wounds reappear (he let her borrow his HealingFactor. His wounds reappearing is [[NoOntologicalInertia another problem]]) [[note]]The wounds reappearing, in fairness, may not have been strictly an ontological inertia problem even in non-mutants. For instance scurvy can cause the reopening of even extremely old wounds that have been long-healed. Wolverine may have been experiencing a similar effect with the loss of his healing factor[[/note]].
*** A review in the ''Irish Times'' complained that Senator Robert Kelly (R-KS), who had been killed in the first film, was somehow alive in the second... except he wasn't: the Sen. Robert Kelly seen in ''X2'' is actually just Mystique impersonating him. This was not only pointed out explicitly in the first film (for those viewers too sleepy to notice the characteristic flash of yellow eyes) but was a ''pivotal plot point'' in the second, which makes you wonder if the reviewer actually bothered to watch the film.
*** One ''TIME'' magazine profile of Creator/AlanCumming described him as playing a "mutant villain". As in, Nightcrawler.
*** Someone probably just saw the first scene of him attacking the White House and missing the part about him being mind-controlled.
** A review in ''The Straits Times'' for ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' states that Logan is American, when he is really Canadian. He even says so to another character at one point in the movie.
* A continuity announcer on [=ITV2=] claimed that ''Film/GoldenEye'' was about "Pierce Brosnan running around the Arctic with Famke Janssen trying to save the world (and his libido)." Famke Janssen's character Xenia Onatopp is ''a villain'' from the start. Also, part of the St. Petersburg tank chase was filmed on site. They faked all of the relevant statues and treasures and smashed replicas on a UK Backlot, but that didn't stop a few breathless "They're destroying our art!" newscasts in Russia.
* A talking head on CNBC reported that the then-just released ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' had broken the opening box office record held by the movie ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}''. However, ''Aquaman'' at that point in time was just a [[ShowWithinAShow fictional movie]] within the universe of ''Series/{{Entourage}}'', and didn't come out in real life until the end of [[Film/Aquaman2018 2018]].
* An Israeli mainstream news site reported about a new trailer for ''[[ShowWithinAShow Medellin]]'', starring Vincent Chase, the star of [[ShowWithinAShow Aquaman]], which is ''also'' all plot from the show ''Series/{{Entourage}}''. The article had a link to the [[{{Defictionalization}} de-fictional]] website created for the fictional movie, along with the trailer itself embedded in the page. Shortly after the virtual [[FacePalm facepalms]] began appearing in the comments section, the article was removed.
* The ''Film/HarryPotter'' film series:
** One article about the fifth movie showed a picture of Harry and Cho Chang about to kiss, but the caption read that he was puckering up for ''Hermione''. The canon shippers were not amused.
** Before the fourth film came out, ''The Sun'' showed a picture of Harry and Parvati Patil dancing with the caption "Harry romances Cho Chang at the Yule Ball". On the one hand, it is ''kinda'' understandable as Cho Chang is Harry's love interest and he does ask her to the ball (she just says no and he asks Parvati instead). On the other hand, one wonders how the journalist could have thought an actress of Indian ethnicity was playing a character with an obviously Chinese name.
** A Norwegian newspaper called the aforementioned kiss scene a "highly controversial sex scene".
** An amazing number of film critics, including Creator/RogerEbert, described the ending of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' as involving a duel with a dragon, whereas the creature Harry fought was actually a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk basilisk]]. This may be rather nitpicky, but the fact that the creature was a snake was a bit of a plot point. On the other hand, [[http://listverse.com/2010/04/16/10-beasts-that-used-to-be-mythical/ early descriptions]] of dragons in western literature describe them as serpents and this might have been where the critics were going. Basilisks are traditionally classified as a type of dragon anyway, except when they aren't, so the mistake is somewhat understandable. Unfortunately, the Potterverse accepts the "except when they aren't" as canon.
** Robert Pattinson appeared properly as Cedric Diggory in ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', but wasn't in the next film, ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', unless you count a two-second {{Flashback}} to footage from ''Goblet of Fire''. Of course, reporters covering his performance as Edward Cullen in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movies say he was in two ''Potter'' films (after all, that's how it shows up on [=IMDb=]) or even mention ''Phoenix'' exclusively, since it was more recent.
** Media coverage from various sources sort of did this with Creator/DanielRadcliffe and Emma Waston's kiss in ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows, Part 1]]''. While they technically didn't state anything inaccurate about it, they heavily implied the scene was an actual romantic moment rather than an evil vision tormenting Ron. And, of course, lots of attention was given to the fact that they were naked. It even got an unironic nod for "best kiss" from the MTV Movie Awards.
** At the fifth film's release, one Bulgarian newspaper published an article titled "''Harry Potter'' is getting lewd", illustrated by a random picture of a scantily clad Helena Bonham Carter and implying that Bellatrix will be introduced as a FemmeFatale, possibly acting this way towards Harry. There was, of course, no such thing in the movie, and Bellatrix' AdaptationalAttractiveness boiled down to her not looking like she's spent 15 years at a mind-breaking prison.
* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'':
** The local Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN) paper's movie review of the 2007 ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie repeatedly referred to the Autobots' human buddy as "Spike". Spike was the equivalent human to Sam Witwicky in the [[ComicBook/TransformersGenerationOne original comic and cartoon]].
** For ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', we have Movie Juice's negative review that tells us that you can disguise the fact you didn't watch a film with a series of jokes about it. The reviewer called Megan Fox a Decepticon, made jokes about Rosie Huntington-Whitely wearing tight dresses and high heels during battle scenes including the scene with the colapsing building, and made several jokes about how silly a lot of the character's names are. To those who haven't seen the film, let me explain these problems: Megan Fox's character Mikaela Banes was a human girl in the first film who sided with the good guys, the Decepticons are ''aliens'' and ''bad guys''. Rosie Huntington-Whitely did wear a form fitting dress and high heels in one scene that you could call a fight scene, but that was between humans, consisted of two holding one down while a third punched him, and her involvement in the scene was her leaving a party and being abducted by a Decepticon before she's even left the premises. The collapsing building scene is right after she's been rescued, to which she's already changed into more casual clothing. The characters with funny names are all ''alien robots''. It would be weird if they ''didn't'' have alien sounding names. This was, of course, not helped by the reviewer basically trolling anyone who called them out on it.
* Film critic Armond White is infamous for panning acclaimed movies and acclaiming panned movies.
** In his review of ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', he identifies Marcel, the black film projectionist/Shoshanna's lover, as the narrator of the penultimate chapters. There's a LOT wrong with that statement: 1. The brief narration is done by Creator/SamuelLJackson, who has a distinctive voice to anyone who watches movies. 2. The narration is in English, where Marcel appears to speak only French, 3. There is no narration in the penultimate chapters. The two times Jackson narrates are near the center of the film. Which is of course all lost on the poor basterds who only get to see the film badly dubbed into French/German/Russian/Urdu/... Oh, and [[spoiler:Marcel is implied to die at the end of the film, as all exits are blocked, and he is at the heart of the conflagration.]]
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
** A review decried the fact that Arwen gets such a small role (whereas in the books, she has all of ''one line'', near the end of ''Return of the King''). Another assumed that Éowyn's killing of the Witch-King was an [[AffirmativeActionGirl expansion of her role in the books]], but her role in the books was actually reduced for the films. In the film, she kills the Nazgûl Lord and sort-of-generally pines for Aragorn. In the book, she slays the Nazgûl Lord and delivers a badass speech decrying how men get all the glory and heroism in battle, whereas women's job is "to have leave to be burned in the house once men no longer have need of it."
** At least one review of the movies put forth the opinion that the reason the filmmakers put so much painstaking effort into Gollum's portrayal was simply because CGI is a new toy and they wanted to show it off as much as possible.
** [[http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/homework.htm The Tolkien Sarcasm Page]] is a deliberately erroneous, tongue-in-cheek summary of ''The Lord of the Rings''. A writer for the ''Sunday Times'' [[http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/blanchett.htm took it seriously]] and used it in preparation for an interview with Cate Blanchett. Made even funnier by the fact that the premise of that webpage is that if you can't be bothered to read the book (before writing a paper, book report, or in this case, ''giving an interview''), then you deserve to be misinformed.
*** Cate Blanchett who, like the other actors, was sworn to secrecy about the direction of the actual movie, knew of the Sarcasm page, and strung the writer along using the inaccuracies of the page as a guide, to see how bad the interview would be.
** A newspaper reviewer of ''The Return of the King'' made a complaint that the movie included a giant spider and wondered why Peter Jackson felt it was needed. Shelob appears in the series, though her appearance was moved to the third instalment for the films.
** A newspaper synopsis of ''The Lord of the Rings'' read "Frodo and friends go on a quest to find a magic ring." Some quest that would have been, given that one of the first things that happens in the story is Frodo getting the ring from Bilbo.
** Reviews of the first instalment in Peter Jackson's ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy are guilty of this. The film has been criticised for having a more childish and humorous tone than ''The Lord of the Rings'', ignoring that ''The Hobbit'' is a novel aimed at young children while ''The Lord of the Rings'' wasn't. The film has also been criticised for "padding" by including Gandalf and the White Council's struggles with The Necromancer, going as far as to claim that these things don't appear in Tolkien's works. However, as Jackson has stated lots of times (and anyone with a small understanding of Tolkien's books should know), this material been taken from the appendices of ''Return of the King'', which details that these events happen at the same time as ''The Hobbit''.
** Then there are the websites that attempt to defend the films by saying that "everything not in the book comes from the appendices." Well, not everything. Tauriel is a completely original character, meaning that the love triangle between herself, Legolas and Kili is purely an invention by Jackson and company, not to mention most of what goes on in Laketown. Alfrid is also an original character, as are Bard's children. Also, Azog fought Thorin's ''grandfather'', not Thorin himself, and was long dead by the time the story began, and Radagast never meets Thorin and Company.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** One TV-news reporter in 1977 referred to Chewbacca as "Choobie". Another referred to the ''Millennium Falcon'' as "Darth Vader's ship".
** When ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' hit the cinemas, an Austrian magazine attempted to introduce uninitiated readers to the film's universe. There was mention of the fan outcry about the small green Jedi Master named Ewok being too cute, and confused the Neimodian Trade Federation mooks with Sith Lords.
** It's not uncommon to hear people talk about "Dark Vader" (or "Darth Vadar") and "Hans Solo". Even the actors are prone to such mistakes: Creator/JamesEarlJones made the [[http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-01-22-james-earl-jones_N.htm "Dark Vader" mistake]] when referring to his character, and Creator/CarrieFisher referred to Padmé as "Princess Amidala" in a Newsweek interview.
** Also, using "Darth Vader" to refer to pre-Vader Anakin is a common mistake. Conversely, however, many people also think of "Darth Vader" as the costume that Anakin wears, whereas in ''Revenge of the Sith'' Chancellor Palpatine gives him the name Darth Vader as soon as he has helped Palpatine kill [[spoiler: Mace Windu]]; this is a good deal before he is disfigured by the lava and has to don the iconic suit.
** Vader ''is'' called "[[DubNameChange Dark Vador]]" in most French versions, which is hilariously similar to the "Dark Vader" misnomer and causes ''even more'' of this trope in different French-speaking regions. In France, due to the name's use of GratuitousEnglish (compared to "Darth Vader" not being a very language-specific name itself), quite a few French fans mistakenly label "Dark Vador" as the original English name. Meanwhile, in French Canada, the character's official name was reverted to "Darth Vader" [[InconsistentDub but the original trilogy retained its]] DubNameChange-filled European French dub, causing some people to mix up the two names, leading once again to the "Dark Vader" mistake or variations thereof.[[note]]A French-Canadian movie site, for example, has many reviews referring to the character as "Darth Vader", "Dark Vader" or "Darth Vador" but never "Dark Vador".[[/note]]
** Italian magazines sometimes get to call Darth Vader "Death Star". Or with the Italian dub name, Dart Fener.
** Creator/RogerEbert stated in his review for ''Revenge of the Sith'' that Fox could continue the series, regardless of whether or not Creator/GeorgeLucas wanted to make another one or not. Lucasfilm owned the franchise outright.
** In a 2006 cosmology book called ''Our Almost Impossible Universe'' the author cites the aliens probably aren't bad saying "It's not like Darth Vadar is going to come down and get us"(sic) which illustrates a real lack of knowledge of the six released Star Wars Movies by 2006, and equating Vader more closely with [[Franchise/FlashGordon Ming the Merciless]].
** There is an [[http://www.salon.com/1999/06/15/brin_main/ essay]] by Creator/DavidBrin criticizing ''Star Wars'' in comparison to ''Franchise/StarTrek''. See [[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/HateMail/Brin.html here]] for a rather long list of research failures.
** Minor example: Klaas Heufer-Umlauf of ''Circus Halligalli'' had Creator/SamuelLJackson as a guest and, while talking to him in English, used the German pronunciation of "Jedi", obviously unaware that [[DubNameChange it had been changed during localization]]. And so was Mr. Jackson, who laughed at him.
** Happens to some elements in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', due to the fact that they're similar but not the same as elements from the original trilogy. Jakku is often mistaken for fellow desert planet Tatooine, and Kylo Ren is often mistaken for a Sith Lord (or even Darth Vader himself).
** A newspaper article on ''The Force Awakens'' featured a graphic of Rey and Finn running from the laser fire of... an X-Wing... which is facing ''away'' from them. (The laser fire is drawn as coming from its engines.) Even more bafflingly, the X-Wing in question is already depicted firing lasers from the wing tips.
** When ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' came to theaters in Spain, a small weekly publication that was given free along with one of the Spanish people's most relevant newspapers included several incorrect statements about the original saga. It said that "... Darth Maul, so fully evil, he kills Qui Gonn (played by Liam Neeson) when he's sleeping".
* An NPR reporter once talked about the "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the]] [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]]" series, apparently mixing two franchises.
* The ''Boston Globe'' reviewer of ''Film/DonnieDarko'' seems to have taken a bathroom break during half of the film and walked out fifteen minutes before the ending. No other explanation would suffice. However, he admits to not paying attention to the part where Frank explains to Donnie that he (Frank) comes from outer space. Because the reviewer seemed sure that scene appeared in the movie.
* The whole kerfuffle that erupted over the film ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'' was because people were informed about scenes of Jesus settling down, getting married, and having sex. What they ''weren't'' informed about was that these scenes were a hallucination caused by the Devil in order to try and convince Jesus not to fulfill his destiny, walk away and have a normal life, a temptation Jesus rejected. You know, as sort of described ''in the name of the film''. Nobody listened, however, and due to staunchly Catholic {{Media Watchdog}}s, the film wasn't premiered in Mexico ''until 2005!''
* A Chilean negative review of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' called Rocky (who is a flying squirrel) "a beaver". ''[[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Rocko]]'' feels his pain.
* [[http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/05/gyllenhaa-persi.html This article]] from EW.com was written by someone who, commenting on the upcoming ''Franchise/PrinceOfPersia'' movie, was apparently completely unaware that the series had new installments in the last 20 years. As many of the commentators on the page point out, 30 seconds on Google would have cleared things up.
* In the UK series of ''Series/{{Gladiators}}'', a character refers to Spartan saying 'he doesn't have 299 friends to back him up now!'. About a second later, the commentator says '300 Greeks fought for Rome, but there's only one Spartan!'.
* For a time, Hulu described the scene from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' where Doc whisks Marty and Jennifer off to 2015 as "Doc surprises Marty and Lorraine with an urgent request to come into the future to save their kids." Lorraine is the name of his mother...but since Creator/LeaThompson has far more screen time than either Elisabeth Shue or Claudia Wells, it's understandable.
** At the time of its release, the film was described by some French newspapers as "Marty and Doc travelling into the future to find the city under the control of Griff Tannen", or some variation on it, mixing two different plot points of the film.
* The Quentin Tarantino release of ''Film/HardCoreLogo'' describes the movie as "A hilarious {{rockumentary}} in the laugh-packed tradition of ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap''... As magnetic lead singer Joe Dick holds the whole tour together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of the rock nd roll lifestyle come bursting hilariously to the surface! Featuring a memorable appearance by punk rock legend Joey Ramone... settle in and enjoy this offbeat comedy as it REALLY cranks up the laughs!" HCL has its funny moments, but it is decidedly ''not'' a hilarious comedy. Joey Ramone is in it for maybe five minutes at the beginning, and is quickly forgotten.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150908041907/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/20094/Godzilla-vs-Bioranch/overview This article from the New York Times]] wrongfully calls the film ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'' "Godzilla VS Bioranch". It's made even more annoying by the fact that the article even has a poster from the film that shows the actual title of the film.
** TV Guide's blurb for ''Film/GodzillaVsMegalon'': "Godzilla and giant robot Jet Jaguar team up to fight a giant cockroach [(Megalon, a stag beetle)] and a big black chicken [(Gigan, a bluish-green and gray reptilian cyborg with a beak and mandibles)] sent by Seatopians."
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZZR_cBfJsE This CNN report]] on ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' calls it "a new movie that producers promise will be his last, featuring every ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' friend and foe ever created." Creator/{{Toho}} stated prior to the film's release that the series would merely be put on hiatus for five to ten years, and while ''Final Wars'' does feature the largest cast of [[{{Kaiju}} giant monsters]] out of all the movies, that cast does not contain even half of [[Characters/{{Godzilla}} all the monsters created over the course of the series]] (excluding all monsters from the Heisei and Millenium continuities along with more than a few from the Showa era -- some of whom, like [=MechaGodzilla=] and Megalon, are quite famous).
** ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'':
*** While news outlets talking about the movie can be forgiven for thinking the flying monster might have been Rodan or Mothra based on the brief glimpses of it in early previews, it became less forgivable when later previews and film crew interviews made it clear that it was a new monster called a M.U.T.O. [[http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/29/just-when-you-thought-godzilla-couldnt-get-any-more-exciting-theres-a-new-trailer-and-an-old-enemy-4712592/ This article]] in particular not only misidentifies the M.U.T.O. as Mothra despite including much clearer shots from the final trailer that show it very much isn't, but also characterizes Mothra as Godzilla's ArchEnemy. Not only is King Ghidorah Godzilla's real ArchEnemy, but Mothra has been an ''ally'' of Godzilla more often than an enemy.
*** Just about ''every'' news outlet talking about the 2014 film has characterized it as the very first ''Godzilla'' movie since ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'', out of apparent ignorance of the Millennium series.[[note]]Even in terms of wide theatrical releases in the United States this is wrong, as the most recent film to see an American release prior to ''Godzilla (2014)'' was ''Film/Godzilla2000.''[[/note]]
*** Kpop Starz has become particularly notorious for disseminating wildly inaccurate stories about ''Godzilla (2014)''. They've repeatedly talked about a [[TheStinger Stinger]], allegedly "exclusive to certain Asian markets," that showed Mothra leading an army of M.U.T.O.s to [[BlowYouAway blow around humans and their vehicles]]. While there ''is'' an EasterEgg referencing Mothra, it's only in the form of the word plastered on an insect habitat. The whole Stinger angle is easily refuted by the fact that Creator/GarethEdwards has stated his distaste for post-credits scenes and {{Sequel Hook}}s in general, and would be unlikely to sign off on showing one to just a few international markets. Another article from Kpop Starz has something so blatantly inaccurate that it seems deliberate: the site mentioned that "fans are waiting for the studio to reveal the much awaited Mechagodzilla," which is true -- then they titled the article "Godzilla 2 Monsters: Mechagodzilla To Debut Together With Mothra Ghidorah And Rodan As Revealed In SDCC," which is ''not'' true.
** The 1977 "Monster Series" book on ''Godzilla'' is infamous for its incorrect information, which is partially understandable, given that any sort of info on the movies wasn't easy to come by back then. It contributed to the spread of the urban legend that the movie ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' had separate endings shot for its Japanese and American release, a false statement that was still being repeated as late as 1995, in ''The New York Times'' no less. Between mixing up the release order of certain films and getting a few plot details wrong, the book bizarrely claimed that "Gigantis" was a female monster (it's actually the [[DubNameChange name given to]] Godzilla in the American edit of ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'') who fought a fire-breathing monster called "Anzilla" (Angilas/Anguirus, and he didn't breathe fire) and wrecked Tokyo (actually Osaka).
** Generally speaking, most English-language books on Godzilla films and other kaiju movies made prior to the twenty-first century will get a lot of even the most basic information wrong due to A) [[NoExportForYou the difficulty of finding info or even the movies themselves outside of Japan]]; and B) that most authors back then [[AmericansHateTingle did not like the genre]] so they couldn't be bothered to double-check their research. One particularly common one, for some reason, is to describe ''Film/{{Matango}}'' as a kaiju movie about a giant fungus creature, despite the movie actually being a PsychologicalHorror that only shares the same special effects style of kaiju movies.
* There was a book on ''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}'' that for whatever reason called ''Film/FrankensteinConquersTheWorld'' ''Frankenstein vs. Godzilla''. Now, this could be excused by misinformation, as Godzilla was originally meant to appear in Baragon's place, but the same author also describes the movie very accurately and specifically notes Frankenstein's opponent was a completely different creature called Baragon. Possibly an error on the editors' part.
*** On the subject of ''Frankenstein Conquers the World'', when the magazine ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' covered the release of the film in North America, it mistakenly stated the movie was titled ''Frankenstein vs. the Giant Devilfish''. The error likely comes from how American distributor Henry G. Saperstein had wanted the Japanese producers to add an American-exclusive scene of Frankenstein battling a giant octopus due to his fondness for a similar scene in ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'', only to cut out the finished scene at the last minute.
* It's pretty common for non-Japanese sources (especially in the west) to say ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' was from the same creators as Godzilla, which is pretty much only true if you boil down "creator" to mean "Japanese filmmakers". The reality is that Godzilla is a Toho creation while Gamera was produced by Daiei.
** One old book on bad movies clearly written by an author who loathes Japanese kaiju movies (we won't say who it was) makes mention of a kaiju movie called ''Gyaos'', in which a giant fruit bat attacks Tokyo. He was most likely referring to ''Film/GameraVsGyaos'', but evidently wherever he got his information from forgot to include the former character in the title. Also Gyaos is meant to be a vampire bat/pterodactyl kaiju.
* David Edelstein, reviewing the ''Film/{{Bewitched}}'' movie in ''Slate'': "Using R.E.M.'s impassioned "Everybody Hurts" -- written by Michael Stipe after the suicide of Kurt Cobain -- to underscore shots of Kidman and Ferrell feeling blue about their inability to pair off is an aesthetic crime." Take Th... uh, wait a minute, that song was recorded in 1992, while Cobain died in 1994. To his credit, [[http://www.slate.com/id/2121389/ Edelstein quickly issued a (very snotty) retraction.]] "I don't like having to change something after it's published." Dude, then don't make a mistake on an easily checkable fact.\\\
Not to mention that that's not even the right song. The song about Kurt Cobain was "Let Me In", a less well-known song off the album ''Monster''. When Cobain died, Stipe had already been mourning friend River Phoenix. He had been reluctant to write about grief and retread the ground of previous album ''Automatic for the People''. Cobain's death convinced him to get his feelings out. The song is unmistakable because it's such a departure from the rest of the album. Also unmistakable is ''Everybody Hurts'', a comfort anthem with suicidal teenagers in mind. It's intentionally simple, as personal crises may not be the best time for complicated literary interpretation. This stands in stark contrast to the rest of R.E.M.'s entire body of work. Confusing these two songs is no small error from a fan's point of view.
* One particularly scathing movie review for ''Film/SilentHill'' derided the film for being based on a video game series, but praised the movie's composer for at least writing a unique cinematic score instead of relying on the video game's "[[PacManFever beeps and whistles]]". The music in the movie, of course, was taken directly from the games. Coming at this from another angle, a newspaper blurb on the game ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'' described it as being based on the movie. There were in fact several [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to the movie in ''Silent Hill: Homecoming'', so it's easy to see how they got confused. For example, The Boogeyman/Pyramid Head's design is based off his movie design, and the introduction of the Smog enemy looks almost identical to the introduction of the Armless Man in the movie.
* A ''History's Mysteries'' episode on zombies has somebody say that the North American image of zombies was something like "Freddy from ''Friday the 13th''..." Freddy's in ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''. Jason Voorhees is in ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''. At least they could both be considered [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]], [[OurMonstersAreDifferent depending on who you ask]].
* An article on a magazine about ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' stated that Film/JamesBond allied with the exiled General Medrano from Chile to destroy the Quantum Organization. Medrano is actually part of Quantum's plan (he's to be installed as dictator). It's also set in Bolivia, not Chile, though it was shot in Chile.
* Australian newspaper ''The Age'' had a still from the movie ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' and credited it as being from the upcoming movie ''Film/TheSpirit''.
* Box summaries of movies are great for this (see also [[CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer/AnimeAndManga the Anime examples]]). From the back of the DVD of ''Film/AChristmasStory'': "(Ralphie) also endures all kinds of childhood calamaties from snowsuit paralysis to the yellow-eyed Scotty Farkus affair to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit." Ralphie's brother had the snowsuit paralysis (which was never called as such), his friend Flick did the flagpole (which was not a gambit), and the yellow-eyed bully was actually named Scut Farkus.
* Marcus Berkmann in the ''Daily Telegraph'' reviewed ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' without, apparently, bothering to see the movie, as he confidently informed readers that Mr. Freeze was motivated to avenge the death of his wife, whereas in the movie the fact that his wife is very much alive (albeit, y'know, frozen) at the beginning and end of the film is an important plot point. This could have been bad phrasing, as it's technically true -- what motivates Freeze heading into the climax is a mistaken belief that Batman unfroze and in the process killed his wife.
* Sam Wollaston, TV critic for ''The Guardian'', reviewed a TV documentary titled ''The Human Spider'', about a guy who climbed a big building dressed as, obviously, ComicBook/SpiderMan. His review, however, referred to the guy as being dressed as Franchise/{{Batman}}. Because those costumes look ''so'' much alike...
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'':
** ''The Metro'' even went so far as to call the main character of ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' "Nero" and claim the film was about his adventures in AnotherDimension. Now... doesn't that sound [[Film/StarTrek2009 familiar]]?
** Another reviewer somehow confused the three main female characters in ''Reloaded'', stating that "Hero Neo must also enlist the aid of a virtual beauty, played by Carrie-Anne Moss, who captains a ship of her own." (Now we know that it's possible to be ''too'' high while watching this trilogy.)
** We could easily fill this page with reviews from that long, ''long'' summer, because a considerable number of them were written by people (people paid to write reviews of movies, mind you) who did not bother to go back and watch [[ContinuityLockout the first movie]]...
** One review claimed that mysteriously Agent Smith had become the only Agent in existence, with all the others from the first movie nowhere to be seen, and blamed this on Hugo Weaving's ego -- never mind that there are other agents in several scenes in the movie, albeit different ones from the first, but Smith is no longer an agent at all, but a virus program working for his own ends, against the mainstream machines.
** This even extends to some of the films' own DVD features. The Ultimate Matrix Collection features commentaries on all the films by three critics, who clearly hadn't been paying much attention (one of them seems to think Zion is in space rather than underground, for starters). The sequels are notorious for being impenetrable, but you're not helping your case when you screw up the few things that ''are'' clearly explained.
* An ''Indiana Daily Student'' review of ''Film/LastManStanding'' noted it was a remake of Creator/AkiraKurosawa's ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' but said, "It may seem strange to remake a Kurosawa film as a Western." The film was already remade as a western: ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''. There's also a long history of back-and-forth inspiration between westerns and samurai films. For that matter, ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' is an adaptation of Creator/DashiellHammett's novel ''Literature/RedHarvest'', set in a western U.S. town in the 1920s.
* A review of ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' opened with the following informed lines.
-->Another Japanese manga bites the dust with its cinematic adaptation: in this case, the "Dragonball Evolution" series.
* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' :
** Debbie Schlussel pilloried ''Watchmen'' as another example of "violence being aimed at children", apparently not caring that the movie is rated R and therefore children under 18 wouldn't even be able to get in. When commenters told her that it wasn't meant for children, and that not all comics are written for children, ''Watchmen'' included, she replied that the existence of action figures based on the film is conclusive proof that it was aimed at children. This ignores the fact that there are ''plenty'' of grown-ups that collect action figures, and that action figures have been made out of some ''decidedly'' not kid-friendly franchises, such as ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' and ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', as well as some ''pornographic'' comics/videos/anime.
** Ted Baehr's review of ''Watchmen'' is littered with this sort of thing: by far the most hilarious is the lament that Rorschach is seen as a psychopath because he "believes in good and evil" and "truth and justice." Really? Hurling a fake supervillain down an elevator shaft would have been more convincing evidence. Oh, and the review ends with a bilious rant on how the film "strongly affirms humanist, socialist, anti-American values promoting a socialist utopia where liberty, justice and goodness are destroyed for the sake of a totalitarian peace." Bonus points for equaling "humanist" and "anti-American" even though United States were founded as an epitome of Enlightenment-era humanism. It is also clear that it is not meant to be a utopia and Veidt's vision is just to create a world of peace unified by catastrophe, noting about sacrificing liberty or justice nor is any totalitarianism instituted.
** A "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids parent's review]]" of the ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' [[Film/{{Watchmen}} movie adaptation]], instead of reviewing the actual film, listed every single instance of violence or sexual content without mentioning anything else, then concluded that the ultimate message of the story was that "humankind is inherently savage". What? Even more hilarious, another blurb stated the movie's premise as: "After the death of one of his colleagues, the masked vigilante Rorschach sets out on a mission to kill all superheroes." (His quest was to ''save'' superheroes!)
* Then there was Ted Baehr's review of ''Film/VForVendetta,'' which accused the film of being Marxist, despite the fact that it's actually anarchist, and accused it of "Anti-Christian bigotry". It gets funnier for people living in socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, as the actions of Norsefire closely resemble communist regimes. Some would say that the severity of the regime has been downplayed.
* Somewhat similar to Ted Baehr is Caryl Matrisciana, an evangelical "occult expert" who has produced documentaries-in-name-only attacking the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise. Her research into the actual books are about as thorough as you'd expect.
** Matrisciana's 2001 video ''Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged'' goes so far as to [[GodwinsLaw try to play the Nazi card]]. At one point in the video, Matrsciana tried to link Harry with Nazism because the lightning bolt, the shape of his scar, "was used by Hitler sometimes." (The logo of the SS was meant to be two stylized lightning bolts shaped like S's.) Lightning bolt + occult + Hitler = ''Harry Potter is a devil-worshipping Nazi!!!'' By that logic, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Engineers#Corps.27_Ensign all]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(DC_Comics) of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Chargers these]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service people]] are just as guilty of promoting Nazism as Harry Potter.
** In a 2003 interview on a Christian talk radio program, Matrisciana claimed that Lord Voldemort "appears in all the books as a serpent." As anyone who didn't just flip through the books would tell you, Voldemort is disembodied through the first three books and gained a human (albeit reptilian-like) body in the fourth book. He doesn't even personally appear in ''Chamber of Secrets'' and ''Prisoner of Azkaban''. Matrisciana apparently confused Voldemort with Nagini, his animal familiar introduced in ''Goblet of Fire''.
** In defense of [[http://www.kids-in-mind.com/ kids-in-mind.com]], the site isn't geared toward "parent reviews", but "parent guides". The entire purpose of the site is to list every instance of even remotely offensive material, along with severity ratings in those categories so that parents will know whether the movies are appropriate for their children. They don't even do traditional reviews.
** Their "review" of ''Film/BatmanReturns'' (1992) mentioned that the moral was "Crime does not pay." But Catwoman commits multiple crimes throughout the story and is [[KarmaHoudini never brought to justice, even at the end]]. It also must be pointed out that the story doesn't end well for ''Batman''...who is, you know, the ''hero'' of the piece.
*** Mind you, Catwoman [[spoiler: does get killed along with the Penguin by the end]] so they're [[ExactWords technically not wrong]] on the moral.
** Somewhere out there is a review where the author assures the public that soon there will be no more superhero movies, because Hollywood has reached the point where they've made this movie "based off characters ''nobody'' has ever heard of." Um...
* A review of ''Fanboys'' by Robert Wilonsky shows that he neglected to watch the full film. At this point in time to save from possible spoilers here is the link to the review for those of you who have seen the movie [[http://www.movietome.com/pages/tracking/index.php?tid=23&ref_id=362251]] or here [[http://www.metacritic.com/movie/fanboys/critic-reviews]]
* A review of ''Film/SpyKids 2'' said that Carmen and Juni have to fight the evil Romero, and team up with a new duo of Spy Kids to aid them in their battle... Which seemed to reverse the newcomer's roles; since Romero was a good guy (made clear from his first appearance) and the Cortez siblings had to race against, and battle, Gary and Gerti. It also completely ignored Donnagon's blatant corruption and the dangers of the Transmooker device. It was like they didn't even bother to watch the film at all.
* A review for the Franchise/GIJoe [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra movie]] states "Formerly a Real American Hero, G.I.Joe is no longer a hero (it's a group)..." Funny... [[IAmNotShazam G.I.Joe has almost always referred to a group (the "almost" is there because there was actually a namesake) and not a single person, even before the '80s (when they were first called Real American Heroes).]]. The original action hero was titled like that, but the toyline (and TV series) that inspired ''Rise of Cobra'' most certainly wasn't.
* A book about the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s completely screws up the plot of ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'': "After the death of his wife, ex-outlaw (Creator/ClintEastwood) returns to violence to punish corrupt sheriff (GeneHackman) with the support of two companions (Creator/MorganFreeman and Creator/RichardHarris)". He actually returns to violence for a bounty to punish two men in Hackman's jurisdiction. He later attacks Hackman alone. The second companion is actually Jaimz Woolvett, who leaves before climax. Eastwood never shares a scene with Harris.
* A review of ''Film/ReturnToOz'' criticized the movie for having "unimaginative" characters, such as a man with the head of a pumpkin and a yellow hen. Problem was, those characters -- Jack Pumpkinhead and Billina -- are [[AdaptationDisplacement straight out of L. Frank Baum's]] ''The Land of Oz'' and ''Ozma of Oz'', which ''Return to Oz'' was based on.
* P.M. (a popular science magazine) ran a small article about nanotech "liquid metal", citing the Franchise/{{Terminator}} as example of the principle. ''A'' terminator did it, but it wasn't Ahnold's character. On top of that, the illustration they used certainly showed Franchise/{{Robocop}} instead.
* When the film adaptation of ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Hogfather]]'' was aired on Finnish TV on Christmas 2009, the review stated that in the movie they "fight bad guys, including the Reaper Man himself". Anyone who knows even the basics of Discworld should know that Death is nearly always (and especially in Hogfather) one of the ''good'' guys. Obviously the reviewer hadn't either watched the movie or failed to comprehend it.
** It is within the realm of possibility that the reviewer thought he was preserving an important spoiler concerning Death's role; he does seem rather sinister up until he starts to talk.
* A ''Daily Mail'' article viciously attacked the film ''Film/KickAss'' several weeks before its release; in particular, they claimed that the film was the brain-child of screenwriter Jane Goldman (it wasn't; the film is based on a comic book by Mark Millar), who was also the film's director (she wasn't; Matthew Vaughn was the actual director, and co-wrote the screenplay with Goldman), and that it was about a foul mouthed 11 year-old assassin (the film does in fact feature such a character, but the protagonist is a wannabe superhero). Arguably a subversion, since there's a significant possibility that the article was ''deliberately'' badly researched so that they'd have an excuse to attack Goldman, who just happens to be the wife of TV host Jonathan Ross -- who the ''Daily Mail'' despises for reasons much too long to list here.
** And the ''[[FanNickname Daily Fail]]'' strikes again with its review of ''Film/FourLions''. The picture accompanying the review is almost as long as the actual review itself. The review accuses the film of bowing to "political correctness". This, of course, being the comedy about Muslim terrorists.
* ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'' was described by a TV magazine as "in a fantasy world, a girl searches the magic dust that enables travelling between worlds." Funny how the movie never even gets to that point in the [[Literature/HisDarkMaterials book series]].
* A newspaper TV guide reviewed ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'' as (paraphrased) "Woody Harrelson as a mean zombie hunter, with Jesse Eisenberg as his supporting sidekick, in this inexplicably successful blend of horror and teen rom-com". Apart from the fact that Eisenberg is the lead, and... teen romantic comedy?
** Might be justified. Columbus (Eisenberg) is the lead in the sense that we see the events from his perspective, but he does attach himself to Tallahassee (Harrelson) in a sort of sidekick fashion. After they meet, it's Tallahassee who decides most of where they go and what they do. Teen romantic comedy, though? Um...
** This is true of most films with a romantic subplot, no matter how minor. It's automatically labelled as a "romance" or "romantic comedy", even if the romance in question has no impact on the main story.
** Columbus even goes so far as to call himself "a Sancho Panza type character".
* Many reviews of the godawful ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'' movie asked why anyone even bothered to make a movie of a game that no one's even played since the 80s (or 70s in some cases). Of course, the game has been in constant publication - and play - since its creation. What the reviews really meant was "a game I saw other kids play when I was younger but not recently because it's much easier to avoid people you don't share common interests with once you graduate from high school, and since I haven't personally seen it in a while, [[PopCultureIsolation I assume it doesn't exist any more]]."
* An early ''Magazine/{{Empire}}'' article on ''Film/BatmanBegins'' referred to Morgan Freeman's character as "Shadowy mobster Lucius Fox,' apparently confusing him with Carmine Falcone, played by Tom Wilkinson. They later made the same mistake, describing Henri Ducard as a mobster. Which is admittedly a step in the right direction. Both gaffes prompted complaints from readers.
* The [[http://www.amazon.com/Tornado-Daniel-Bernhardt/dp/B0009G3BE2/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1276829157=1-5 Amazon.com]] product description of the 2005 film ''Film/{{Tornado}}'' tells us how Josh Barnaby is haunted by the death of brother and is chasing a mile wide tornado in the Midwest. Too bad Josh's surname is Pallady, he's haunted by the death of his ''father'', the main plot has nothing to do with chasing tornadoes and everything to do with Gypsy curses, and 90% of the film takes place in Romania.
** Perhaps they confused it with the Bruce Campbell movie of the same name? The box art does look similar...
*** Except Bruce Campbell's Tornado was 1996 TV movie, his character was named Jacob Thorne and the plot of that movie involves placing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOtable_Tornado_Observatory TOTO- like device]] in the path of a tornado (which you may recall was the plot of ''Film/{{Twister}}'', which was released three days later).
* The book ''Film in Australia: An Introduction'' by Albert Moran and Errol Vieth screwed up its section on ''Film/{{Lantana}}''. Apparently, they chose to get most of the cast's names from the end credits instead of actually paying attention to the film, and in the process failed to notice that the cast were billed in order of appearance. Thus, they referred to Vince Colosimo's character Nik D'amato as Steve Valdez and his wife Paula as Lisa, who were the fourth and fifth billed characters, right after Leon, Sonja and Jane (three points of the film's love square), but were fairly unimportant to the story. More understandably, they called Geoffrey Rush's character John Somers instead of John Knox (his wife was named Valerie Somers), and more inexplicably, they called Peter Phelps' character Alex instead of Patrick, even though there's no character by that name in the film. Ironically, they still got most of the plot details right.
* A reviewer of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' (one of the few who gave it a positive review) describes how "Aang and friends travel on a flying six-legged albino beaver." The "beaver" in question is actually a bison, and not an albino. Not surprisingly that a positive review came from someone who likely never saw the movie and certainly never watched the TV show on which it is based.
** [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_airbender/articles/1891859/gorgeous_imagerybeautifully_wrought_special_effects_fantasy_fun_for_all_agesim_talking__of_course_about_the_last_airbender_website/ This reviewer]] thinks that the movie took place in the far future, as well as [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100630/REVIEWS/100639999/1023 Roger Ebert]].
*** There is at least an explanation for that one. Some of the promotional material for the film given to critics did make that claim, apparently based on the very early development of the TV series, where that was originally to be the case.
* A small but still irksome example: In an article covering ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', Fangoria repeatedly referred to Terrance Zdunich's character as "Gravedigger."
* The Parents Television Council's [[http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/moviereviews/PTC/2006/friedworms.asp review of the film version]] of ''How to Eat Fried Worms'' opens with the following statement: "The beloved children's classic ... has come to life in this faithful adaptation of Thomas Rockwell's novel." If the movie is so faithful, how do they explain the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Eat_Fried_Worms_(film)#Differences_from_the_book differences from the book]] listed on the Wikipedia article?
* A crossword puzzle provided the clue "Comden and Green musical" for "Auntie Mame." Trouble is, ''Literature/AuntieMame'' isn't a musical, at least not under that 10-letter title, and Creator/ComdenAndGreen only wrote the screenplay for the film of the play that Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee adapted from Patrick Dennis's original story. There is a musical adaptation, titled simply ''Mame'', which Comden and Green had nothing to do with.
* The repeated insistences that the flying ship in ''Film/{{Stardust}}'' is original to the movie and not featured in the book. While Gaiman doesn't elaborate on Tristran and Yvaine's adventure on the ship, its captain has a different name and it isn't a pirate ship, it does in fact appear in the book, and serves roughly the same purpose in the plot.
* In 2011, Celio (a cloth shop franchise in France) decided to do a special Star Wars themed collection. The iconic vehicle of the saga they used for their TV advertisement? A [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 mkII Viper]].
* [[http://animatedviews.com/2011/superman-the-motion-picture-anthology-blu-ray-collection/ This review]] of the ''Film/{{Superman}}'' Motion Picture Anthology Blu-Ray keeps crediting Bud Collyer as the lead of the 1940s serials and portrayer of Lois Lane's father in the extended version of the first movie. However, Bud Collyer voiced Superman in the radio series ''Radio/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'', the WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons, and the animated TV series ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman''. Additionally, he died nine years before the ''Superman'' motion picture anthology began. Creator/KirkAlyn actually acted as the lead in the serials, and Lois' father in the first movie. The Blu-ray bonus features state the differences between Collyer and Alyn more than once.
* The author of ''The New York Times''' [[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/movies/14dvd.html review]] of some remastered Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein [=DVDs=] expressed disappointment when he read the back cover of ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}'' saying that it came with a film adaptation of its predecessor, ''Film/{{Liliom}}'', assumed this referred to the 1930 adaptation, but then found himself watching Creator/FritzLang's 1934 movie. One must wonder why he felt surprised, since the back DVD cover and the insert listing production notes and DVD features and chapters clearly list the 1934 adaptation among the bonus features. (Granted, other people anticipated the inclusion of the 1930 movie, but they did so ''before'' obtaining the DVD.)
* ''1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die'' has a few mistakes, the worst of which is probably claiming, in its review of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' that Michael Biehn played John Connor in ''Film/TheTerminator'', as opposed to Kyle Reese.
* At least one review of the first Tomb Raider movie complained of the sets of Angkor Wat and Lara's home being overdone, overdecorated, over the top, and just generally not credible. The scenes were shot on location, or on sets created to match the locations.
* The book ''Planet Of The Apes Chronicles'' is well known among ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' fans for its many errors in regards to the films.
* Some movie theaters used to give patrons a pamphlet with one-sentence descriptions of current movies. According to to one, ''Film/TheMummyReturns'' was about the main characters discovering their son was the reincarnation of Osiris.
* Creator/RogerEbert has a few:
** He believed that the Bug's goal in ''Film/MenInBlack'' was to "conquer the Earth". The Bug had no interest in Earth at all outside of the fact that it had to go there to retrieve the Galaxy. The threat to Earth was due to a galactic federation of sorts preparing to destroy Earth to prevent the bug from succeeding.
** In his review for ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', he mixed up Ash's chainsaw and shotgun hands.
** In his review for ''Film/{{Gojira}}'', he claimed that the character Emiko is the fiance' of Serizawa's son. Emiko is actually Serizawa's fiance', and though she loves another man, that man is not related to Serizawa.
** He also thinks that Peevy invented the jetpack in ''Film/TheRocketeer''.
** In his review of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', he compares Batman and the Joker and how their lives went different ways after traumatic events in their childhood. Except that traumatic childhood the Joker describes is a lie, and he gives a contradicting story later.
** A (positive) review of ''Film/ChasingAmy'' switched the male HeterosexualLifePartners' personalities and quotes (but not roles in the movie) around, rendering poor Ebert confused and disappointed.
** Ebert mixed up the characters of Brodie and Banky in his review of ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back''. However, as they are both played by Jason Lee, have similar names, appeared as snarky sidekicks in previous Kevin Smith films, and have a comparatively minor role in this one, it is probably understandable.
** The photo caption in [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010624/REVIEWS08/106240301/1023 this review]] of ''Film/SchindlersList'' incorrectly identifies Liam Neeson as Ralph Fiennes, and indirectly implies that [[{{Nazi}} Ralph]] [[AxeCrazy Fiennes's character]] was in the business of ''saving'' Jews. Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson do look shockingly similar, though.
** More Roger Ebert. In [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091223/REVIEWS/912239991 this review]] of Creator/GuyRitchie's ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', he accuses the movie of tossing 'aside the deerstalker hat and meerschaum calabash' (neither of which were ever mentioned in the novel) and also that 'Watson has decided for once and all to abandon the intimacy of 221B for the hazards of married life' (he was married at least twice in the books). Also apparently originally Watson was always 'fretful and frightened' - a base libel against Watson who fought bravely in the Afghan war and was always staunchly by Holmes' side whatever the danger.
*** The first could be said to be a fair comparison to previous Holmes films, the second is a completely accurate description of the plot. The third, though, there's no reason for.
*** Ebert does the same for Bond films... they are compared to other Bond movies and not the books.
** Roger Ebert's review of ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' contains this quote: "One of the key characters in this film is Toby (played by Toby Froud). Froud is a midget who has been given a Muppet head to wear." The character he's thinking of is Hoggle, played by Shari Weiser. Toby is Sarah's baby brother, played by non-midget baby Toby Froud.
** The first paragraph of his review of ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'' reads as follows: "There are a lot of problems with ''Halloween III'', but the most basic one is that I could never figure out what the villain wanted to accomplish if he got his way. His scheme is easy enough to figure: He wants to sell millions of Halloween masks to the nation’s kiddies and then brainwash them to put them on at the same time, whereupon laser beams at the base of the neck will fry the tykes. Meanwhile, he runs a factory that turns out lifelike robots. What’s his plan? Kill the kids and replace them with robots? Why?" While he has the basics of Cochran's "scheme" correct, Roger seems not to understand that Cochran has no such convoluted "plan" in mind--he's just doing what he's doing ForTheEvulz. Additionally, the factory we see in the movie doesn't manufacture Cochran's automatons--it makes the Silver Shamrock masks and the medallions that attach to them which "fry the tykes."
*** This isn't even the most egregious error he makes in the review: he also apparently believed the film to be an ImmediateSequel to ''Film/HalloweenII1981'' and confused the assassin who immolates himself in the film’s opening for Michael Myers[[note]]possibly due to Myers having also been incinerated in a hospital at the end of ''II'', albeit under wildly different circumstances[[/note]]. The film is very much in its own AlternateContinuity, which is bluntly established by the fact that ''Film/Halloween1978'' exists in-universe; additionally, ''Halloween II'' took place on November 1st (being a continuation of the first film's Halloween night massacre), while ''Season of the Witch'' begins several days prior to Halloween.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse
** ''Film/IronMan1'':
*** Starring Robert Downey Jr. as [[http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/57/1210171758386fy6.png Tony]] [[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22iron+man%22+%22tony+spark%22&rlz=1R2GGLL_en-GBGB376&aq=f&aqi=g-sx10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Spark]]. If you think that's bad, Swedish ''Metro'' called him [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost Robert Frost]].
*** The freeview T.V synopsis described Iron Man as starring Robert Downey Jr. as Robert Stack, a billionaire playboy.
** A ridiculous number of reviews for ''Film/IronMan2'' refer to Creator/ScarlettJohansson's character as "[[Comicbook/BlackWidow Natalie Rushman]]," the false identity she uses when she first appears in the film. Understandable if the reviewer is attempting to avoid spoiling the character's true identity (thought neither the movie's advertising campaign nor the movie itself are particularly subtle about it) but somewhat clueless in reviews that go on to identify her as the Black Widow. Moviefone calling her "Natasha Rushman" didn't help.
** While doing a piece on ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Entertainment Weekly claimed that ComicBook/TheFalcon was a ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} agent and a colleague of ComicBook/BlackWidow and ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} from ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. In reality, Falcon is an ex-member of the U.S. Air Force, and the fact that he's ''not'' affiliated with S.H.I.E.L.D. is the main reason Captain America recruits him in the first place.
** Since the character isn't very well known, several reputable news outlets claimed that Creator/PaulRudd had been cast in the ''Film/AntMan'' movie as Henry Pym. In reality, Rudd plays Scott Lang, Pym's [[LegacyCharacter successor]].
** When Daniel Brühl was cast in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', several outlets erroneously reported that he'd be playing Baron Mordo, a prominent ComicBook/DoctorStrange villain, and that he was being positioned to play the BigBad in the ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' movie. In reality, he was cast to play Baron ''Zemo'', a Captain America villain with absolutely no connection to Strange, while Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (who needless to say, does not look like Brühl) wound up playing Mordo.
** Related, but after a magazine covering ''Civil War'' mistakenly referred to Comicbook/WarMachine as "War Hammer," multiple websites (including truly credible ones that should have known better) reported that War Machine was officially being renamed War Hammer for the film. At no point in the movie does anything of the sort occur.
** When Creator/BrieLarson was cast as the title heroine in the ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' movie, CNN ran the headline "Shazam! Brie Larson is 'Captain Marvel'." Apparently, nobody told them they were thinking of [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} the wrong Captain Marvel]] (whose [[Film/Shazam2019 own movie]] was about to be released itself).
** One article reported that ''Captain Marvel'''s [[TheNineties '90s]] time frame sets it at an earlier time period than any other MCU movie. If the author saw ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', he would've realized that the [[TheForties '40s]] period piece has ''Captain Marvel'' beat.
** Prior to the release of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', numerous sites began reporting that Cate Blanchett was playing "Hela aka Mistress Death", and that Thanos was in love with her. While Blanchett ''was'' playing Hela, Thanos was not in love with her nor did he have a role in the film, and Mistress Death and Hela are are completely separate characters (the former not actually existing in the MCU as of current knowledge). The confusion seems to stem from Hela referring to herself as the "Goddess of Death" in a few trailers (and the film proper), leading to journalists finding and researching Mistress Death, whom Thanos ''is'' in love with in the comics, and assuming she and Hela were one and the same.
** Heise is one of the few German publishers of IT stuff that you can actually take seriously. Not the movie reviews in their ''Telepolis'' section, however. When they had a look at ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', they apparently already "knew" that the superhero fad was ending, and didn't bother to actually pay attention to the film, assuming that they at least went and watched it [[note]]some of the words used in the review suggest that they simply looked it up on a few English Web sites or something[[/note]]. Thus, while the writer acknowledges that it targets people who have seen its predecessors (which he, of course, criticizes), he states that the Hulk is with the Asgardians "for some reason", seemingly or actually unaware that he had outright co-starred in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. As for Thanos, the review states that he wants to collect the Infinity Stones in order to "balance the universe", which is correct, but also that he is most interested in the humans "for some obscure reason" and has to eradicate half of them – nope, he wants to eradicate half of the entire universe's population, and he and his henchmen come to Earth because two of the Stones are there (duh). It proceeds to claim that almost everything takes place on nameless planets – nope, only half of the movie does (also, didn't the previous section say that Thanos focuses on the Earthlings?), and each world has a name that is mentioned several times – and that even fans (who are called dumb for wanting to avoid {{spoiler}}s) will hardly be satisfied this time. Guess what, most fans (and most other professional critics) are.
** A Marvel Studios Movie Magazine for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' features brief biographies for the characters from the film, recapping what had happened in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. In the one for Comicbook/ScarletWitch, they state under "Present Whereabouts" that "[she] survived [the snap]". Her disintegration appeared in one of the trailers.
* From the back of the ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' Blu Ray: "Joker (Matthew Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Gomer (Vincent D'Onfrio), Eightball (Dorian Harewood), Cowboy (Arliss Howard) and more experience boot-camp hell pitbullied by a leatherlung D.I. (Lee Ermey)." Anyone who has seen the movie can note two things wrong with this. First, Animal Mother and Eightball aren't in boot-camp with the others. Second, "Gomer" is better known as either Leonard (his real name) or Pvt. Pyle (always with the rank added to it). He is called Gomer exactly one time in the entire movie.
* Before the release of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', a caller to the Radio/RushLimbaugh show claimed that the main villain, Bane, was a derogatory reference to Bain Capital, which Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney once ran. This despite the fact that Bane first appeared as a character in 1993, when Romney was running Bain, but the name wouldn't have had much significance to the general public. This got so bad that several people involved in the movie had to deny it.
** Some bloggers came out with the comparison first, and Creator/JonStewart, for one, repeated it ''days'' before Limbaugh mentioned it (by all indications he assumed they were right). Incidentally, the guy who created Bane, Chuck Dixon, [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn is himself a conservative]], and allegedly ended up blacklisted from Creator/DCComics over his right-wing views (particularly his stance on LGBT issues).
** Limbaugh also got mocked for claiming that Bane has four eyes and breathes fire.
* In Creator/OrsonScottCard's review of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', he says how noble it was of Batman to choose Harvey Dent over Rachel in the SadisticChoice, showing he was thinking about the city. Yet he actually didn't, Batman chose to save Rachel, and only ended up saving Harvey because the Joker had switched their locations around.
* Gene Siskel mocked ''Film/RapaNui'' over what he thought was a ridiculous contest involving retrieving an egg from an island. While the film wasn't very accurate with history, the contest did indeed exist.
* {{Website/Cracked}} has many examples that earn some angry comments. While they're also guilty of "[[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory you're getting the wrong message]]" at times, others are plain "you plain missed something":
** [[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-ways-were-failing-to-live-up-to-back-to-future-2/ Another one claims]] that Mr. Fusion was introduced in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. Actually, Mr. Fusion makes an appearance in the final scene of the original movie. The fact that the scene in question was reshot for the sequel doesn't help.
** In David Wong's article "6 Harsh Truths that Will Make You a Better Person", his first "truth" is the speech Blake (Alec Baldwin) gives to the salesmen in the film ''Film/GlengarryGlenRoss''. Not only does he seem to not understand that the whole point of that scene was to illustrate how soulless American industry has become (he praises Blake's speech and suggests that the sooner we all learn the truth of how the world only cares about what you can give them, the happier and more successful we'll all be), but he also blatantly gets one fact wrong: he says the scene is so powerful that Baldwin received an Academy Award nomination for the film despite it being his only scene. Baldwin did not, in fact, get an Oscar nod for the film. Al Pacino did, and despite being nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Pacino's ([[BillingDisplacement top-billed]]) role was far from a cameo.
** Another article referred to the then-upcoming first ''Transformers'' film, and how it looked like it was completely screwing with established Transformer history. It was, but not for the reasons ''Cracked.com'' assumed. For one thing, it complained about changing Optimus Prime's look so that he barely resembled Prime anymore. This might be a valid complaint if Prime had not already changed looks several times prior to that, and the movie version was actually much ''closer'' to the classic look. Also, for some reason, they decided based on the teaser trailer that the Transformers in this movie would not speak, despite it already being on record that Peter Cullen had been signed to voice Optimus Prime again.
* A forgivable mistake, but one issue of ''National Geographic Kids'' refers to Bugsy the guinea pig from ''Film/BedtimeStories'' as a hamster.
* ''Magazine/TVGuide'' has been known to get the ContentWarnings movies wrong when describing them. When ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' started to show on cable, they claimed it included Nudity among the warnings. (Not only was there no nudity in this movie, the most risqué thing shown between Timothy Dalton and the female lead was a rather deep kiss; the movie was tame by Bond standards, which is actually rather tame to begin with.
* ''The Atlantic'', among many, many others, referred to Tom Hooper's film adaptation of ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' as taking place during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, when it actually takes place during the June Rebellion, which occurred over 30 years later. The movie even opens with on-screen text explaining that it has been 26 years since the French Revolution began.
* Many people accuse ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' of having the CaptainObviousAesop of "eating three meals a day of fast food is bad for you." As explained in the film, the point of the central stunt is not just to show that this habit is bad for you, but to show ''how'' bad it is for you, which surprises even the host's doctors. Also, the rest of the documentary is about how saturated American culture has become with fast food.
* Ken Hanke's book ''Tim Burton: An Unauthorized Biography'' (thank God it wasn't authorized!) has plenty of errors for those who are familiar with Creator/TimBurton's movies. The most obvious one is when Hanke misquotes Pee-wee Herman's catchphrase in ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' as "I know I am, but what are you?" (thus [[CompletelyMissingThePoint utterly destroying the premise behind the joke]]), but he also claims that in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' the Ice Princess was "an accomplice" in the Penguin's plot to frame Batman...when in fact she was ''not'' an accomplice, she had never even heard of (much less seen) the Penguin until less than thirty seconds before being abducted by him, and the scheme against Batman did ''not'' end well for her (which Hanke at least bothers to mention). He even cites "facts" that have nothing to do with Burton, such as that Creator/WillSmith and Creator/TommyLeeJones were in ''Film/IndependenceDay'' together (he was thinking of ''Film/MenInBlack'', as ''Independence Day'' did not have Jones at all).
* The New York Observer's Rex Reed is a repeat offender; not only did he inexplicably describe a scene in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' in which "vampires circle the moon and suck the hot stud’s blood,” ([[http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2012/04/12/how-i-lost-my-respect-for-rex-reed while also failing to make much of the]] PostModernism plot) he accused ''The Dark Knight'' of a ContinuitySnarl for introducing ComicBook/TheJoker as though he's making his debut despite the fact that he already appeared in the 1989 film, which is ''a separate continuity''.
* Although the film ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' actually contains [[ThePowerOfLove a strong moral message]], one MoralGuardian named Travis Ragon provided a detailed description of its faults [[http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=39537 to a Christian news site]]: "...instances of the Lord's name being used in vain, pervasive sexual innuendo, gratuitous depictions of sexual acts, and a scene that apparently has left some viewers feeling emotionally raped." If you didn't see any of those things in the movie, well... neither did Ragon. The article continues: "Ragon has not seen Les Miserables. '[[CriticalResearchFailure I try to research any movies which I might watch]], including ones in my home,' he said." FacePalm.
* [[http://www.nickjr.com/home/ffk-the-oogieloves.jhtml Nick Jr's]] ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'' page says that it's Goobie who wears pants that fall down, when it's actually Toofie. This might be due to them misinterpreting the movie's PhraseCatcher as "Goobie Toofie, pick up your pants", when the first word in the sentence is supposed to be "Goofy".
* The DVD box cover for the movie ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'' says "It's pitch black on an abandoned ship 500 miles from the Earth". 500 miles is barely higher than the Hubble Space Telescope orbits, and is far, far below where most of our weather and GPS satellites are (26,000 miles up). The actual ship in the movie is en route to a different star [[spoiler: and turns out to have been there all along underwater]].
* The plot description on the video box for ''Film/BigDaddy'' says that "when [Sonny's] girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed... and he can't return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny!" In actuality, the kid was sent to Sonny's apartment before he knew his girlfriend had decided to leave him for an older man (though Sonny does suspect she'll dump him earlier), and he is able to return the kid after he finds out, only to decide to keep him when he's about to take him to social services. He convinces the social worker to let him keep the kid until he can find a family for the kid, and avoids answering phone messages from the social worker after he finds a family.
* A Chinese military officer accuses the film ''Film/PacificRim'' of being American Propaganda and saying that the plot of the movie from everything from the Jaeger program, the Wall, and the final assault were all orchestrated by the Americans to "save the world by playing the part of world police," the Pan Pacific Defense Corps is run by the Americans, among other things. To say he is misinformed would be putting it lightly, and the fact that by the time he made this statement the movie was rolling in the cash in China makes his timing very odd.
* The description on the video box for the original video release of ''{{Film/UHF}}'' refers to one of the shows as "Stanley Spadowski's Playhouse", instead of "Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse".
* A story on Creator/ChrisHemsworth in the Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times, for the film ''Film/{{Rush 2013}}'', mentions that he played "George Kirk, brother of James" in ''Film/StarTrek2009''. George Kirk was James T. Kirk's ''father''.
* Many reviews which were critical of ''Film/ThreeHundred'' brought up the Crypteia, the annual hunting of Helots in Sparta; one reviewer even suggests that the backstory of Leonidas's encounter with a wolf was a white-washing of him taking part in the Crypteia. However there is no evidence of the Crypteia taking place before 464 BCE, where it was started as retaliation for a massive Helot uprising after an earthquake destroyed Sparta. The Battle Of Thermopyle took place in 480 BCE. KieronGillen made the same mistake and used it as the inspiration for Three.
* Mistakes people make about ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' are annoyingly common. Even worse, they're normally by people who've actually seen the movie! They include:
** People thinking that Bruce only had God's powers for a week. This is never stated, and mid-way through God actually said "You've had my powers for a little over a week now", so this can't be right, as we know Bruce had his powers for several more days at minimum. Even the DVD cover and the TRAILERS make this mistake, as does the title of the Italian dub, "Una Settimana da Dio" (A week as God).
** People thinking Bruce's powers only worked in Buffalo. This is wrong; Bruce only got PRAYERS from Buffalo, but he could use his powers anywhere. This is especially obvious when Bruce moves the moon.
** People thinking that Bruce and Grace are married. This one is least forgivable, since it's a major plot point that Grace wants Bruce to propose to her. Anyone who makes this mistake clearly wasn't paying attention when they watched the film.
** There are also several people who [[ComicallyMissingThePoint miss the point]] of the movie, by complaining that Bruce used his powers frivolously, not helping others, humiliating his rival, punishing some thugs that had beaten him up, (accidentally and unknowingly) killing thousands of people and *Gasp* [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking having pre-marital sex]]. They clearly missed the point of Bruce intentionally being an imperfect person, who can learn a lesson during the movie.
** [[http://cda.uat-thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/5044158/10-most-over-the-top-orgasms-on-film.html This]] article also claims it was Morgan Freeman (well, his character) who made Grace orgasm with his voice. It was actually Bruce, using God's powers.
* ''Paranormal Activity''
** The malevolent entity of ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' is a demon, ''not'' a ghost. This hasn't stopped some people - even people who have seen the film(s) - from claiming otherwise.
** The Netflix description of ''Film/ParanormalActivity3'' says it is a sequel instead of a ''prequel'' to the series, and that ''[[Film/ParanormalActivity4 PA4]]'' takes place five years after ''[=PA3=]'' instead of ''[[Film/ParanormalActivity2 PA2]]''.
* Advance leaks in the press before ''Film/EyesWideShut'''s release had it that Creator/TomCruise's character had sex with a woman next to her father's corpse. The press severely garbled the scene in which Cruise's character visited a woman to pay condolences after her father's death. There was no corpse present, and though she tried to hit on him and was immediately rebuffed, there was no sex in that scene.
** Another completely wrong pre-release rumor in the press had it that Cruise and Nicole Kidman played psychiatrists who had sex with their patients.
* Comments from director Colin Treverrow on ''Film/JurassicWorld'' not dwelling on the events of the previous two sequels to ''Film/JurassicPark'' that much have led to many outlets assuming that they had been stricken from the timeline entirely. The movie and the ViralMarketing actually make a handful of nods toward ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' and ''Film/JurassicParkIII''.
* Almost all coverage of ''Film/TropicThunder'' referred to Creator/JackBlack's character as Jeff "Fats" Portnoy, as if "Fats" is Portnoy's InSeriesNickname. It's actually the name of Portnoy's character in the [[ShowWithinAShow film within the film]].
* [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/final-destination-5 This]] review of ''Film/FinalDestination5'' claims that Sam consciously saved his girlfriend, boss, and six other people after he saw the premonition. That's ''technically'' true: they were saved because they tried to get him back on the bus, only to realize that he was right and make it off on time. The author also says that someone is snapped in half [[spoiler: when it's actually being sliced in half by a plane wing]], and that teens are stalked in the movie when the youngest victim is 24 years old, and that there was tons of blood and gore (when this movie was actually ''less'' gory than the previous film.
* The Sunday People's review of ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'' criticized the fact the titular anti-hero had cancer, saying it was only added to the plot to make Wade Wilson sympathetic. It's actually lifted straight from the source [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Marvel comic books]], and is part of his origin story.
** And of course, the countless amounts of people that claim the film is the first R-rated comic book movie despite the dozens upon dozens released in the past, with the honor of being the first (or at least first major release) being ''Film/TheCrow''.
* In [[http://moviepilot.com/posts/4012736 an article]] about ''Film/PowerRangers2017'', Movie Pilot mentions that Alpha 5 will be in the movie. This is illustrated using a photo of Alpha 6.
* In the ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Sleepover", the [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] movies are said to be about an evil puppet rather than a possessed doll.
* Partners In Kryme's song "Turtle Power", from the ''official soundtrack'' for Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990, claims that ''Raphael'' is the Turtles' leader. As any kid at the time could have told you, Leonardo is the leader.
* The live-action ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' movie has given rise to some of this.
** [[https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2017/03/michael-pitts-kuze-gets-a-ghost-in-the-shell-character-poster-new-featurettes-and-clip-released/ One article for Flickeringmyth]] contained the following description of the Major, which would make just about any generic science fiction fan twitch: ''"one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid."'' But "{{cyborg}}" '''already means''' a "hybrid" of cybernetics with organic lifeforms. "Human cyborg" would be accurate (as the character has a human mind); even "human-cybernetic hybrid" or "human-robot hybrid" would be at least ''accurate''; "human-cyborg hybrid" however, is equal parts redundant and nonsensical.
** [[http://movieweb.com/ghost-in-shell-movie-2017-video-clip-water-fight/ This Movieweb article]] includes the following sentence: ''" The Major's "shell" can render her completely invisible, blending seamlessly into any environment. While we don't know much about the character whom The Major is fighting, he is clearly out-matched, as The Ghost sends this man flying back farther and farther with each powerful punch and kick."'' This seems to indicate the reviewer of the preview clip in question thinks the Major's also called "The Ghost", is the specific "Ghost" of the title, or at least that her ability to turn invisible in her cybernetic body is somehow what the title is referring to. In actuality, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell the title of the original manga]] is a ShoutOut to an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_in_the_Machine old science fiction novel]], which is referencing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine philosophy concept]]; and further, in the franchise itself, "ghost" is a generic term (read: not referring to any ''one'' character) for the sentient, sapient part of the mind that makes us (legally) human, regardless of whether or not you've had "enhancements". This is the cyberpunk equivalent of calling Frankenstein's Monster just "Literature/{{Frankenstein}}"...and much like that common error, it would have been easily avoided by ''Googling'' for basic information about the story.
* Speaking of ''Ghost in the Shell'', let's talk about ''Film/TheGreatWall'':
** In the wake of the controversies over the casting of European-descent actors in Asian roles in ''Ghost'' and ''Dr. Strange'' came [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVw9YdP1O-0 the trailer]] for ''Film/TheGreatWall'', a Chinese-American coproduction starring (at least in the trailer) Creator/MattDamon. Constance Wu of ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'' wrote a long Facebook post, echoed by other Asian-Americans, accusing "Hollywood" (despite the clear credit given to Chinese director Zhang Yimou) of making "yet another" film casting a white person as Asian (the trailer never states or even suggests his character is Chinese, nor does he appear to have been made up that way, and in fact in the film his character is indeed European), of suggesting that Damon's character was a WhiteSavior who built the Great Wall (in fact the trailer clearly uses "they"). When the actual film was released, all these assumptions turned out to be unfounded (Damon's character is really in the film to make it salable to an American audience), yet few of those who originally criticized it as whitewashing were willing to come out and say they were mistaken.
* A ''Billboard'' magazine article from 1998 claims that the 1996 version of ''Film/ShallWeDance'' is a Studio Ghibli film. (To be fair, most of the article is about Studio Ghibli, so it'd be easy for a writer not familiar with the material to get confused.)
* A few summaries of ''Film/TheInvisibleWoman1983'' claim that Sandy became an InvisibleStreaker after drinking her uncle's invisibility formula. Actually, the formula had been spilled and she wiped it up, absorbing the formula through her skin.
* An [=IMDb=] review of ''Film/{{REC}}'' calls the journalist main character "Niña Medeiros" and says that she is played by Javier Botet. The main character is called Ángela Vidal, she is played by Manuela Velasco, and the "Niña Medeiros" (literally "Medeiros Girl") is a FinalBoss monster played by Javier Botet - a ''man.''
* [[https://twitter.com/actionhankbeard/status/1041851320691564544 A photo]] from the set of the forthcoming ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 movie]] showed Creator/JamesMarsden talking to Creator/JimCarrey as [[BigBad Dr. Robotnik]]. Or at least Twitter user Nuri claimed the person was Jim Carrey. [[https://twitter.com/AmandaFlagg/status/1041858281717739520 It was quickly clarified]] the man Marsden was talking to was actually [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003964/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Frank C. Turner]]. When you consider that [[https://twitter.com/TailsChannel/status/1030208642065334273 Carrey had already shown off his official haircut for the movie,]] one must question how Nuri mistook Turner for Carrey.
* When ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' was announced, many news outlets touted it as the first black superhero/comic book movie. Fans of ''Film/TheMeteorMan'' (not based on a comic book, but still), ''Film/{{Spawn}}'', and ''Film/{{Blade}}'' (not a superhero movie, but based on a comic book) respectfully disagree.
* A Mexican movie magazine did a report about San Diego Comic-Con, which, apart from treating the comic geeks attending it with various levels of contempt got a picture of two girls cosplaying with this caption "80's fever: Mario Bros. princess, is still in fashion", the movie the girls in the picture were actually cosplaying... ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''. Which at the time had not even been out of theatres for a year.
* A truly bad example of this that ultimately got the film's release delayed indefinitely came with the 2019 American horror film ''The Hunt'', a HuntingTheMostDangerousGame movie with an added SlobsVersusSnobs and political angle, in which the [[RichBitch wealthy villains]] are coded as "blue state" liberals and the {{working class hero}}es are coded as "red state" conservatives (the WorkingTitle was even ''Red State vs. Blue State''). One might think that the film was designed to appeal to conservative audiences who distrusted liberals, and indeed, it did raise eyebrows among liberal pundits and outlets... but that wasn't where the real controversy came from. ''That'' came when conservative pundits and outlets [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/liberals-hunt-conservatives-film/ mistook the film]] for one where the audience was supposed to be ''{{rooting for|TheEmpire}}'' the rich hunters, even though the trailer made it obvious where the audience's sympathy is supposed to lie. Combine that with the specter of two high-profile mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio within twenty-four hours of one another, and Creator/{{Universal}} put the film on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment, citing TooSoon as the reason why.
* Thomas Pope's screenwriting guide ''Good Scripts, Bad Scripts'' says that ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' screenwriter Diane Thomas was unable to write the sequel due to AuthorExistenceFailure. In fact, she was unable to work on the sequel because of other commitments. ''The Jewel Of The Nile'' finished filming three months before Thomas' fatal car accident.
* More than a few people on Twitter, including journalists, scaremongered about ''Film/Joker2019'' potentially inspiring a mass shooting during screenings of the movie in the style of the Cinemark Aurora shooting. The attempts to identify Joker as a recurring factor in both, however, proved that none of them actually knew anything but a few scant details about the shooting. The movie playing during the shooting was ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', where Joker was nowhere to be seen, and the shooter did not dress up like Joker, or even look ''anything'' like the Joker (he had dyed his hair orange and wore tactical gear to the shooting.) Both things involving a movie about a DC property set in Gotham with some connection to Batman is literally the only thing tying the ''Joker'' movie and the shooting together.

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* Netflix has been inaccurate on the info of two of the movies in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon: ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' and ''Disney/BrotherBear''. Respectively, Netflix says that '''Fagin''' was the villain when it's actually '''Sykes''' (probably they confused it with [[Literature/OliverTwist other adaptations of the same story]]), and that Kenai was avenging his '''father''' when Sitka is clearly his '''eldest brother'''.
* Armond White’s review of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': "The toys wage battle with the daycare center's cynical veteran cast-offs: Hamm the Piggy Bank pig, Lotsa Hugs and Big Baby." Hamm is not from the daycare center, he's one of Andy's toys, and he appeared in the previous two films. The biggest error here, however, is that Hamm's not, nor has he ever been, a villain.[[note]]A bit of a {{Jerkass}}, yes, but not a villain.[[/note]] Possibly, he saw Hamm being portrayed as a villain in young Andy's playful imagination at the start of the movie and somehow confused this with the rest of the movie. Also, the villain's name is Lots'''o''' Hugg'''in''' Bear, not Lotsa Hugs.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'':
** There's been an assumption on the part of some of the reviewing public that this is a Creator/TimBurton film, due to both the animation style and the fact that the trailers hype it as being by "the director of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''". The director, for ''both'' films, is in fact Henry Selick, and Burton has nothing to do with ''Coraline''. Neil Gaiman, author of the original book, [[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/by-way-of-preamble.html has expressed his annoyance with this]], and it's been [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02092009.shtml mocked]] in webcomics. Neil Gaiman, from the above blog entry:
--->"It was irritating when people started asking me ''why'' the advertising said "From the director of ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''", and wasn't it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry's name, I had little patience with it.)"
** Another blame for this is the InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt for ''Nightmare''. (In other words, its full title is ''Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas''. Mind you, Burton was only responsible for the ''concept'' of that movie as he was busy directing ''Film/BatmanReturns'' at the same time.)
* The Rotten Tomatoes website and a few movie theatres that gave away free film pamphlets, made this summary of ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': "Hiccup goes on a mission to pass their village's initiation into manhood by capturing and training a dragon. If he succeeds, he will become a warrior. If he fails, he will be forever banished". This would techically be true had the film been more faithful to Cressida Cowel's book, but so much liberties were taken to change the plot that instead of a boy going through a rite of passage capturing and training dragons, it's a teenager whose village is dedicated to killing dragons befriending an injured dragon and finding that everything he and his village knows about them to be wrong.
** An advertisement for toy dragons based on [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 the second movie]] showed and described someone making toy Toothless fight the [[{{Kaiju}} Bewilderbeast]] toy...specifically, the white one that was actually ''[[GentleGiant good]]'' in the movie [[spoiler: and not the black one that was under the BigBad's control]].
* The [=MovieGuide.org=] review of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut'' refers to Big Gay Al as being black. It also claims that "the whole point of ''South Park'' is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see ''South Park'', even though it is rated R. Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up."
* In mid-2012, when lemurs are considered to be threatened even more, this [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120721213708/http://www.france24.com/en/20120714-lemurs-worlds-most-threatened-mammal-study AFP article]] believes that Creator/{{Disney}} [[AllAnimationIsDisney made]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}''.
* When ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime IX'' was first released, there was a very bizarre review on Amazon, which somehow referred to the previous film, ''The Big Freeze'', as "Time of Much Snow". Also, even more strange, the review talked about the death of Littlefoot's '''grandmother''' instead of his mother, suggesting that this user didn't do any research.
* Whoever wrote the official website for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' probably never watched any of the movies. They describe Tanya as "always getting her brother into some kind of trouble" (which he does just fine on his own), and when they describe Tony Toponi they imply that he's in love with Tanya, which of course is never even hinted at in the movies. Now granted, the site was probably created with the idea that the ViewersAreMorons, which is also sadly reflected in Universal's more recent DVD releases of the movies.
* The ''Christian Review'' website complained in their review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} 2'' that Donkey having children with Dragon implied that he was a "Freewheeling playboy" despite the fact that Dragon is the only romantic partner he has and that two people who love each other having children is [[OlderThanDirt something that's gone on for ages untold]]. They didn't seem to have a problem with the end of ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' though, in which the island the chickens land on is swarming with chicks, despite the fact that Rocky is the only fertile rooster in the bunch...
* The book ''Creator/{{Disney}} Dossiers: Files of Characters From the Walt Disney Studios'' is [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons chock-full of glaring omissions]] and mistakes. For example, Disney/{{Aladdin}}'s fact sheet says "Parents: None (orphan)", completely neglecting the fact that him finding out his father was alive was '''the main plot of ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'''''[[note]]which the book also claims came out a year earlier than it actually did[[/note]]. [[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco's]] profile also seems to negate the existence of [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool Malina]] by saying that Kuzco has no "significant other", even though it ''does'' sound like something Kuzco would say about himself[[note]]The book was released in 2006 and Malina wouldn't become official with Kuzco until the finale in 2008, so they're technically right[[/note]]. Also, for some reason, DonaldDuck's filmography highlights includes ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'' (which he wasn't even mentioned in), Timon's last name (Berkowitz) and Scar's birth name (Taka) are forgotten, and some of the voice actors for the characters are glaringly omitted (''e.g.'', Cam Clarke for [[Disney/TheLionKing Simba]], April Winchell for [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]]).
** Granted Clarke and Winchell voiced the characters in two mostly forgotten [=TV=] series spin-offs.
** Plenty of mistakes are abound in the ''Disney Song Encyclopedia'' as well. The description for the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' theme claims that the show is "about the colorful Kit Cloudkicker, who flies his plane through various adventures in the tropics." The error is, obviously, that Baloo was the pilot; Kit was his navigator. The book also claims that ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' retained its theme song from the original Nickelodeon series, but anyone who has seen both versions of the show can tell you that the theme songs sound nothing alike.
** Another Disney book mistake: In ''Disney: The First 100 Years'', a picture from the opening scene of ''Disney/TheLionKing'' is given this caption: "Rafiki holds baby Simba while Mufasa and '''Nala''' smile proudly." Simba's mother is named Sarabi; Nala was Simba's love interest.
** An [[http://smokescreeners.org/downloads/animated_smoking.pdf article]] on depictions of tobacco and alcohol use in movies for children identifies [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Lampwick]] as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Lamp]]''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS wit]]''.
** ''The Encyclopedia of Disney Characters'' written by John Grant, is a well researched book but does have one notable error; the article on ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'' lists Abis Mal as "Abi Smal." Ordinarily, this would be just a normal typo, except the article on the WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} TV series not only spells his name correctly, but both names are listed in the index, as if they were two separate characters.
* Movie critic Eleanor Ringel claimed in her review of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry, The Movie'' that the Tom and Jerry series won fifteen Academy Awards for Outstanding Animated Short Subjects. They were ''nominated'' fifteen times and won seven Academy Awards.
* And here's a kicker: Ted Baehr's [=MovieGuide=] did its review of the 2007 ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' film shortly after its release, and did an utterly atrocious job explaining the film's content factually. For starters:
** Leonardo and Raphael's fight ''midway'' through the movie is described as a battle between Leo and Michaelangelo -- at the film's beginning.
** There can ''only'' be a [[SexIsEvil bad explanation]] for Casey crashing at April's place so often. How could the two of them ''possibly'' be [[InnocentCohabitation chaste]]?
** "Stories went nowhere..." This implies that nobody at [=MovieGuide=] had ever heard of the 2003 animated series or the original comics. The intro was a minimal effort to give newcomers [[AllThereInTheManual an insight into the film's world]], just in the bleak chance that someone going to see it [[SmallReferencePools had never been exposed to previous Turtles-related material]].
** The thing with those stars aligning to unleash a beam of energy on Earth that [[SealedEvilInACan unlocks monsters from another world]] is merely modification of a common plot device. A similar theme was used in the first Comicbook/FantasticFour [[Film/FantasticFour2005 movie]], with the cosmic beam storm. But somehow, this is an ''evil'' tactic by ''Satan'' to get us addicted to looking for answers in -'astrology''! Never mind that not one single constellation in the Zodiac ([[EasternZodiac Eastern]] or [[WesternZodiac Western]]) was even once mentioned on screen.
** "Calm yourself" is not simple advice, according to Baher. It's an "evil and false Buddhist doctrine." What?
** Contrary to Baher's assessment of "a confused view," the movie actually has no problem with vigilantism ''per se''. What it does have a problem with is [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim Punisher-style vigilantism]]. The Foot Clan and monsters [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman are what they are]] and are deemed as "[[WhatMeasureIsAMook worthy to die]]." Yet, ordinary criminals [[HumansAreSpecial are not to be killed]]. They are to only be subdued and left for the police. That is the code of battle honor the Turtles fight with, and is very similar to Franchise/{{Batman}}'s.
*** The problem Leonardo has with the "Night Watcher" is because the news has led him to believe that this vigilante actually kills the criminals, making this an '''in-universe''' example of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. Those who know the {{backstory}} will know that the Turtles once believed this about Casey, before befriending him. They know of Splinter's code of honor, similar in some ways to Bushido, and they don't trust vigilantes who are not trained in any known code of honor. Not that this matters to [=MovieGuide=], which believes that "bushido" is just a buzzword for "[[EveryoneIsSatanInHell a lie from Satan designed to drag you to Hell]]."
** The movie goes to great lengths to explain that without a strong family dynamic, one may never feel at home anywhere, even if they do get everything they originally thought they wanted. '''Since when''' does this [[AnAesop Aesop]] constitute a "Romantic Pagan" view?
* A November 2009 issue of the Seattle Times had a picture of Simon from ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' labeled as Theodore in the picture for an article promoting the new December movies. This must have been especially annoying for the article writer, who was apparently a fan of the movies; pictures and captions thereof are usually not the domain of the journalists in newspapers, so the mistake was not the author's fault.
* [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120509211245/http://cinemovie.tv/cinemovie_new/component/content/article/55-interviews/1280-guillermo-del-toro-interview-pinocchio-dreamworks This article]] about Guillermo Del Toro joining Creator/DreamWorksAnimation claims that the studio's 2012 movie ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' is a sequel to Zack Snyder's ''[[WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole Legend of the Guardians]]'', which is a completely unrelated movie made by ''Warner Bros.''.
* In [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-2864-5-endangered-species-that-should-be-put-down/ this Cracked article]], the author claims that an angler fish almost ate Nemo in the movie ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo.'' However, it was ''Marlin,'' not Nemo, who faced the angler fish.
** The writer of [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-disney-kids-who-should-have-been-traumatized-life/ this article]] must not have watched ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', because, well, he seems to think Elsa was locked away and completely isolated from human contact from birth, saying "Being without human contact until the age of 21, she should have been making grunting noises and building human-shaped statues out of her own poop." That isn't even remotely true, because Elsa wasn't without human contact until she was 21. She wasn't isolated from Anna until she was eight years old, and that early childhood had a lot of social interaction. And she was not totally deprived of human contact, as she is seen speaking with her parents, with Anna, and presumably talked with a few trusted servants. Her isolation was more like self-imposed solitary confinement. That's not saying she wouldn't have had psychological problems (the movie makes clear Elsa is mentally damaged by hurting Anna), but she wouldn't have been a feral child.
** According to "[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-childhood-favorites-that-did-not-age-well/ 5 Childhood Favorites That Did Not Age Well]]" by Erik Germ, "You might not have realized this while you were caught in the throes of sharing "WHAT 90S' DISNEY PRINCE ARE YOU?", but Disney hasn't had a hand-animated film since 2009's ''Disney/{{The Princess And The Frog}}''." Actually, Disney ''did'' produce one more traditional film: 2011's ''Disney/WinnieThePooh''.
* One news source for ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' actually calls [[BrattyHalfPint Vanellope Von Schweetz]] Ralph's [[NoYay love interest]].
* A lot of the news stories about the Creator/BlueSkyStudios ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' film, ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', either implied or claimed outright that it would be the first time the ''Peanuts'' characters would appear on the big screen. There were 4 animated ''Peanuts'' films made between 1969 and 1980.
* Some articles about ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' assert that the "a bunch of others we don't need to mention" joke, during which images from various canceled or somewhat controversial ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'' lines [[{{Blipvert}} flash on screen]], was a show of SelfDeprecation on LEGO's part, and that the lines in question (for example ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', ''Toys/{{Fabuland}}'' and ''Toys/LEGOFriends'') were some of their biggest failures. While it is true that the LEGO fandom is [[BrokenBase seriously divided]] over these lines, most of them were ''far'' from failures. ''Fabuland'' and ''BIONICLE'' have devoted followings despite the former having been canceled since the '80s, and the latter was one of the company's most successful and top-selling non-licensed properties (not to mention a LongRunner among the action-oriented themes, returning in 2015 for another planned three years), having played a huge part in saving LEGO from going out of business during the early 2000s -- the exact opposite of a failure. The joke was really either the creators poking fun at them or [[spoiler: a reference to how Finn can't play with them since he might not own any of the toys]].
* Build-a-Bear Workshop's description for their plush toy of Fluffy from ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' starts with "Agnes, Gru's favourite unicorn, is totally adorable in furry friend form!" Fluffy is the name of the unicorn, and Agnes is the name of one of Gru's daughters and the person who actually owns said unicorn, not Gru.
* [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/jimmy-neutron-boy-genius The Common Sense Media article]] for WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius claims that one of Jimmy's friends is "Shane (a passionate fan of some action heroes called Ultra Lords)". First of all, the character's name is Sheen. Second, Ultra Lord is one character. A case could be made for the latter referring to the action figures instead of any characters, but even so...
* Many people are confused as to what animals Bing Bong from ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' is supposed to be a combination of. For example, [[http://ttpm.com/p/14512/the-disney-store/inside-out-bing-bong-stuffed-animal/ Time To Play Magazine's]] review of a stuffed animal of his says he is part dog due to his ears looking like those of a dog. Other people claim he is part cow and/or horse, due to his line "You gotta remember when Riley was three, animals were all the rage. The cow goes moo, the horse goes neigh. That's all people talked about." He's actually part cat, elephant and dolphin, but is mostly made of cotton candy. However, according to "The Art Of Inside Out", Bing Bong was originally supposed to be part dog, which explains the ears.
** One review of the movie claimed that [[spoiler: the collapse of Goofball Island]] led to [[spoiler: the Train of Thought's derailment.]] It's actually [[spoiler: Honesty Island's collapse]] that leads to this event. The reviewer might have been confused due to both scenes involving characters [[spoiler: trying to escape from the catastrophic scene that's unfolding]].
** One [=CartoonBrew=] article called Bing Bong a girl in reference to the scene where he stubs his toe. This could be because he is pink and likes girly things like princesses and ponies.
** IMDB claims that the song "Take My Breath Away" played in this movie. It did not; it played in the ''Riley's First Date?'' short that is a bonus feature on the Blu-ray and DVD of the film, and was probably added because at the time, the short had no listing on the site yet.
* Sometimes extremist Christian parties pick on cartoons that, according to them, send subliminal messages to children that are watching them, and usually falling in really bad cases of CriticalResearchFailure. This is the case with Italian politician and activist Mario Adinolfi, leader of the "People of the Family"[[note]] a political party notorous for propagating fake news and libel about homosexuality, atheism and adoptive families[[/note]] who strongly bashed ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' for its alleged "Gender Ideology propaganda" and "brainwashing children into homosexuality", based on the fact that Po, or rather [[IAmNotShazam "Kung Fu Panda"]], has two fathers. He blatantly ignored the fact that Mr. Ping was Po's adoptive father ''since the beginning of the series'', and Po has found his true father in the third film. Adinolfi did not even apologize to angered fans of the film, insisting that he found the film's message to be deviating.
* The ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' tie-in book "Fish Talk" claims that Hank turned pink when [[spoiler: inking himself in the touch pond]]. He didn't change color at all during this incident.
** [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Ag6o/coppertone-kids-finding-dory-sunburn The description of this Coppertone ad]] based on the movie calls Hank "Frank".
* A common error is to conflate Disney with Pixar. They are not at all the same; although Pixar is owned by Disney, they are an autonomous company within Disney, not a division thereof. This is particularly bad in the Website/YouTube video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQNZ_Nblrs Pixar Trivia]], supposedly a compilation of "music clips from Pixar movies" -- but one of them was from ''Planes'', which although set in the ''{{WesternAnimation/Cars}}'' universe, was made by Disney, not Pixar.[[note]]And in any case, a lot of them are actually from trailers, and weren't used in the movie.[[/note]] Even worse, many of the more ignorant commenters complained of the "absence" of ''Disney/TheLionKing'' -- which has nothing to do with Pixar.
* To this day, some people insist that the [[RunningGag Pizza Planet Truck]] appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' -- thereby asserting that they know better than Lee Unkrich and Brad Bird (a senior Pixar staffer, and the Pixar staffer who ''actually directed the movie'').
* Elsa from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' is often referred to as "Princess Elsa", especially in Brazil, even though her coronation and status as ''queen'' of Arendelle are major plot points. Even then, it's not as bad as when she's called "[[IAmNotShazam Princess Frozen]]"...
** A review of the film in a French newspaper managed to get the names of the sisters wrong, presenting Anna as having uncontrollable ice powers and Elsa the plucky sister who punched princes in the face.
* A book adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'' mistakenly called Fallon "Finna," Janessa "Jocelyn," and Kathleen "Kate."
* [=Zap2it's=] listing for ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'' reads: "Thinking he has real superpowers, the canine star of a hit TV show travels cross-country from Hollywood to New York to rescue his owner and co-star." They get the general idea of the plot right, but get the origin and destination of Bolt's journey backwards; Bolt ''starts'' in New York (after accidentally getting stuck in a mail delivery truck heading there) and journeys to Hollywood from there.
* [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/teen-titans-go-to-the-movies Common Sense Media's]] review of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'' uses a screenshot from an episode of [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo the series it adapts]], "The Fourth Wall".
* During ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'''s initial release, a package of Trix yogurt offered quiz questions about [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} the first film]]. One question asked to list off all three of Jafar's wishes, but listed the answers as becoming sultan, then a sorcerer, "and, finally, a snake." Jafar became the gigantic snake as a result of his sorcerer powers, and actually used his third wish to become a genie himself.
* A video game version of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' for the NES asked which Disney princess fell under the spell of "Queen Malificent". Maleficent was the villain in ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', but the game claims the answer is ''Disney/SnowWhite'' (whose villain is usually just called "The Evil Queen", but was named Grimhilde in concept).
* DVD Verdict's review of ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'' calls it the first computer animated movie in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, even though ''two'' CGI movies immediately preceded it, and Disney produced a [[Disney/{{Dinosaur}} CG/live-action hybrid]] even earlier. Becomes even more [[CriticalResearchFailure critical]] by the fact the body of the review includes a link to an article about Disney's ''actual'' first all-CGI movie, ''Disney/ChickenLittle''.
* IGN's review of the ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' Platinum Edition DVD lists that the DVD contains two versions of the film: one animated in [=CinemaScope=], and one with characters and details re-arranged for Academy screens (which are shaped more like squares), offering "a sort of unofficial history lesson for folks who are interested in cinema's technological history." However, if he read the back cover more carefully, he would have noticed the DVD actually contains ''Lady and the Tramp'' in [=CinemaScope=] --its original, unedited format-- and Pan and Scan. Instead of including the specially-modified version (which would have had to be restored too), Disney simply cropped the picture for people who can't tolerate black bars on 4:3 TV sets. So much for learning about technological history.
* The official Hungarian description to ''Toys/{{Bionicle}} 3: Web of Shadows'' claimed that the villainous pair, Roodaka and Sidorak, are Makuta. While the name Makuta ''does'' refer to a whole race of beings, within the context of the movie, there was only one Makuta, with Roodaka and Sidorak being his servants. In the defense of whoever wrote or mistranslated the description, though, the movie leaves a ''lot'' of story-points horribly vague, so watching it wouldn't have helped much.
* One of the cards in the Disney version of ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' shows a picture of Disney/{{Cinderella}} losing her slipper shortly after marrying PrinceCharming, and asks what time it was when the scene occurred. The card says the scene occurred at midnight, even though Cinderella actually got married at noon. Apparently, someone mistook this for a picture of the ball.
* [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/The_Return_of_the_King_1980.aspx This review]] of the 1980 cartoon version of Tolkien's ''Return of the King'' (an unofficial attempt to complete Ralph Bakshi's aborted version) starts with the reviewer stating that they haven't read the original books. They nevertheless go on to complain about how the cartoon deviates from the original text such as having Sam tempted by the ring with visions of turning Middle Earth into a giant garden, Denethor possessing a Palantir and the presence of The Watchers (semi-alive giant vulture statues). ALL of these are in the original book.
* A lot of summaries of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInArabianNights'', make it seem like a regular ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' episode only set in the Middle East, when it is actually more or less an adaptation of the original book with Scooby and a DisguisedInDrag Shaggy taking the place of Scheherazade.
* There used to be a very vocal group on the Website/IMDb discussion boards who claimed that "{{Creator/Dreamworks}} rips off {{Creator/Pixar}}" when in fact all the "examples" they quoted were of pairs of movies (e.g. ''{{WesternAnimation/Antz}}'' vs. ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'') which had almost nothing in common other than that they (1) were CGI animations, (2) had similar protagonists and (3) came out at around the same time (which can be accounted for entirely by the fact that there are fashions in movie scriptwriting as in everything else, hence also the rash of disaster movies in the early [[TheSeventies 1970s]]). (One thing those commentors evidently failed to grasp was animation lead time; it just isn't possible to crank out a high-quality, feature length animation in short order.) One particularly dumb example was that ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' was supposedly "ripped off" from ''{{WesternAnimation/Ratatouille}}'' despite the fact that the former is actually an Creator/AardmanAnimations film (Dreamworks only distributed it) hence is a poor choice for anyone wanting to prove anything about Dreamworks; and (2) the ''only'' thing the two have in common is that both have rodent protagonists -- hardly a unique selling point in animation (one could just as logically claim that "''Ratatouille'' ripped off (insert title of random Mickey Mouse cartoon here)").
* The Facebook page for ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'' posted a photo captioned: "Happy #[=WolfWednesday=]! Could we interest you in this beautiful white wolf pup?" [[http://cdn.attackofthecute.com/June-10-2012-08-05-32-3657009529e65126c316b.jpg The image they posted]] showed an arctic fox.
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\n[[folder:Animated Films]]\n* Netflix has been inaccurate on the info of two of the movies in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon: ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' and ''Disney/BrotherBear''. Respectively, Netflix says that '''Fagin''' was the villain when it's actually '''Sykes''' (probably they confused it with [[Literature/OliverTwist other adaptations of the same story]]), and that Kenai was avenging his '''father''' when Sitka is clearly his '''eldest brother'''.\n* Armond White’s review of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': "The toys wage battle with the daycare center's cynical veteran cast-offs: Hamm the Piggy Bank pig, Lotsa Hugs and Big Baby." Hamm is not from the daycare center, he's one of Andy's toys, and he appeared in the previous two films. The biggest error here, however, is that Hamm's not, nor has he ever been, a villain.[[note]]A bit of a {{Jerkass}}, yes, but not a villain.[[/note]] Possibly, he saw Hamm being portrayed as a villain in young Andy's playful imagination at the start of the movie and somehow confused this with the rest of the movie. Also, the villain's name is Lots'''o''' Hugg'''in''' Bear, not Lotsa Hugs.\n* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'':\n** There's been an assumption on the part of some of the reviewing public that this is a Creator/TimBurton film, due to both the animation style and the fact that the trailers hype it as being by "the director of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''". The director, for ''both'' films, is in fact Henry Selick, and Burton has nothing to do with ''Coraline''. Neil Gaiman, author of the original book, [[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/by-way-of-preamble.html has expressed his annoyance with this]], and it's been [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02092009.shtml mocked]] in webcomics. Neil Gaiman, from the above blog entry:\n--->"It was irritating when people started asking me ''why'' the advertising said "From the director of ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''", and wasn't it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry's name, I had little patience with it.)"\n** Another blame for this is the InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt for ''Nightmare''. (In other words, its full title is ''Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas''. Mind you, Burton was only responsible for the ''concept'' of that movie as he was busy directing ''Film/BatmanReturns'' at the same time.)\n* The Rotten Tomatoes website and a few movie theatres that gave away free film pamphlets, made this summary of ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': "Hiccup goes on a mission to pass their village's initiation into manhood by capturing and training a dragon. If he succeeds, he will become a warrior. If he fails, he will be forever banished". This would techically be true had the film been more faithful to Cressida Cowel's book, but so much liberties were taken to change the plot that instead of a boy going through a rite of passage capturing and training dragons, it's a teenager whose village is dedicated to killing dragons befriending an injured dragon and finding that everything he and his village knows about them to be wrong.\n** An advertisement for toy dragons based on [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 the second movie]] showed and described someone making toy Toothless fight the [[{{Kaiju}} Bewilderbeast]] toy...specifically, the white one that was actually ''[[GentleGiant good]]'' in the movie [[spoiler: and not the black one that was under the BigBad's control]].\n* The [=MovieGuide.org=] review of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut'' refers to Big Gay Al as being black. It also claims that "the whole point of ''South Park'' is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see ''South Park'', even though it is rated R. Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up."\n* In mid-2012, when lemurs are considered to be threatened even more, this [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120721213708/http://www.france24.com/en/20120714-lemurs-worlds-most-threatened-mammal-study AFP article]] believes that Creator/{{Disney}} [[AllAnimationIsDisney made]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}''.\n* When ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime IX'' was first released, there was a very bizarre review on Amazon, which somehow referred to the previous film, ''The Big Freeze'', as "Time of Much Snow". Also, even more strange, the review talked about the death of Littlefoot's '''grandmother''' instead of his mother, suggesting that this user didn't do any research.\n* Whoever wrote the official website for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' probably never watched any of the movies. They describe Tanya as "always getting her brother into some kind of trouble" (which he does just fine on his own), and when they describe Tony Toponi they imply that he's in love with Tanya, which of course is never even hinted at in the movies. Now granted, the site was probably created with the idea that the ViewersAreMorons, which is also sadly reflected in Universal's more recent DVD releases of the movies.\n* The ''Christian Review'' website complained in their review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} 2'' that Donkey having children with Dragon implied that he was a "Freewheeling playboy" despite the fact that Dragon is the only romantic partner he has and that two people who love each other having children is [[OlderThanDirt something that's gone on for ages untold]]. They didn't seem to have a problem with the end of ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' though, in which the island the chickens land on is swarming with chicks, despite the fact that Rocky is the only fertile rooster in the bunch...\n* The book ''Creator/{{Disney}} Dossiers: Files of Characters From the Walt Disney Studios'' is [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons chock-full of glaring omissions]] and mistakes. For example, Disney/{{Aladdin}}'s fact sheet says "Parents: None (orphan)", completely neglecting the fact that him finding out his father was alive was '''the main plot of ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'''''[[note]]which the book also claims came out a year earlier than it actually did[[/note]]. [[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco's]] profile also seems to negate the existence of [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool Malina]] by saying that Kuzco has no "significant other", even though it ''does'' sound like something Kuzco would say about himself[[note]]The book was released in 2006 and Malina wouldn't become official with Kuzco until the finale in 2008, so they're technically right[[/note]]. Also, for some reason, DonaldDuck's filmography highlights includes ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'' (which he wasn't even mentioned in), Timon's last name (Berkowitz) and Scar's birth name (Taka) are forgotten, and some of the voice actors for the characters are glaringly omitted (''e.g.'', Cam Clarke for [[Disney/TheLionKing Simba]], April Winchell for [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]]).\n** Granted Clarke and Winchell voiced the characters in two mostly forgotten [=TV=] series spin-offs.\n** Plenty of mistakes are abound in the ''Disney Song Encyclopedia'' as well. The description for the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' theme claims that the show is "about the colorful Kit Cloudkicker, who flies his plane through various adventures in the tropics." The error is, obviously, that Baloo was the pilot; Kit was his navigator. The book also claims that ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' retained its theme song from the original Nickelodeon series, but anyone who has seen both versions of the show can tell you that the theme songs sound nothing alike.\n** Another Disney book mistake: In ''Disney: The First 100 Years'', a picture from the opening scene of ''Disney/TheLionKing'' is given this caption: "Rafiki holds baby Simba while Mufasa and '''Nala''' smile proudly." Simba's mother is named Sarabi; Nala was Simba's love interest.\n** An [[http://smokescreeners.org/downloads/animated_smoking.pdf article]] on depictions of tobacco and alcohol use in movies for children identifies [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Lampwick]] as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Lamp]]''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS wit]]''.\n** ''The Encyclopedia of Disney Characters'' written by John Grant, is a well researched book but does have one notable error; the article on ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'' lists Abis Mal as "Abi Smal." Ordinarily, this would be just a normal typo, except the article on the WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} TV series not only spells his name correctly, but both names are listed in the index, as if they were two separate characters. \n* Movie critic Eleanor Ringel claimed in her review of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry, The Movie'' that the Tom and Jerry series won fifteen Academy Awards for Outstanding Animated Short Subjects. They were ''nominated'' fifteen times and won seven Academy Awards.\n* And here's a kicker: Ted Baehr's [=MovieGuide=] did its review of the 2007 ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' film shortly after its release, and did an utterly atrocious job explaining the film's content factually. For starters:\n** Leonardo and Raphael's fight ''midway'' through the movie is described as a battle between Leo and Michaelangelo -- at the film's beginning.\n** There can ''only'' be a [[SexIsEvil bad explanation]] for Casey crashing at April's place so often. How could the two of them ''possibly'' be [[InnocentCohabitation chaste]]?\n** "Stories went nowhere..." This implies that nobody at [=MovieGuide=] had ever heard of the 2003 animated series or the original comics. The intro was a minimal effort to give newcomers [[AllThereInTheManual an insight into the film's world]], just in the bleak chance that someone going to see it [[SmallReferencePools had never been exposed to previous Turtles-related material]].\n** The thing with those stars aligning to unleash a beam of energy on Earth that [[SealedEvilInACan unlocks monsters from another world]] is merely modification of a common plot device. A similar theme was used in the first Comicbook/FantasticFour [[Film/FantasticFour2005 movie]], with the cosmic beam storm. But somehow, this is an ''evil'' tactic by ''Satan'' to get us addicted to looking for answers in -'astrology''! Never mind that not one single constellation in the Zodiac ([[EasternZodiac Eastern]] or [[WesternZodiac Western]]) was even once mentioned on screen.\n** "Calm yourself" is not simple advice, according to Baher. It's an "evil and false Buddhist doctrine." What?\n** Contrary to Baher's assessment of "a confused view," the movie actually has no problem with vigilantism ''per se''. What it does have a problem with is [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim Punisher-style vigilantism]]. The Foot Clan and monsters [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman are what they are]] and are deemed as "[[WhatMeasureIsAMook worthy to die]]." Yet, ordinary criminals [[HumansAreSpecial are not to be killed]]. They are to only be subdued and left for the police. That is the code of battle honor the Turtles fight with, and is very similar to Franchise/{{Batman}}'s.\n*** The problem Leonardo has with the "Night Watcher" is because the news has led him to believe that this vigilante actually kills the criminals, making this an '''in-universe''' example of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. Those who know the {{backstory}} will know that the Turtles once believed this about Casey, before befriending him. They know of Splinter's code of honor, similar in some ways to Bushido, and they don't trust vigilantes who are not trained in any known code of honor. Not that this matters to [=MovieGuide=], which believes that "bushido" is just a buzzword for "[[EveryoneIsSatanInHell a lie from Satan designed to drag you to Hell]]."\n** The movie goes to great lengths to explain that without a strong family dynamic, one may never feel at home anywhere, even if they do get everything they originally thought they wanted. '''Since when''' does this [[AnAesop Aesop]] constitute a "Romantic Pagan" view?\n* A November 2009 issue of the Seattle Times had a picture of Simon from ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' labeled as Theodore in the picture for an article promoting the new December movies. This must have been especially annoying for the article writer, who was apparently a fan of the movies; pictures and captions thereof are usually not the domain of the journalists in newspapers, so the mistake was not the author's fault.\n* [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120509211245/http://cinemovie.tv/cinemovie_new/component/content/article/55-interviews/1280-guillermo-del-toro-interview-pinocchio-dreamworks This article]] about Guillermo Del Toro joining Creator/DreamWorksAnimation claims that the studio's 2012 movie ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' is a sequel to Zack Snyder's ''[[WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole Legend of the Guardians]]'', which is a completely unrelated movie made by ''Warner Bros.''.\n* In [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-2864-5-endangered-species-that-should-be-put-down/ this Cracked article]], the author claims that an angler fish almost ate Nemo in the movie ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo.'' However, it was ''Marlin,'' not Nemo, who faced the angler fish.\n** The writer of [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-disney-kids-who-should-have-been-traumatized-life/ this article]] must not have watched ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', because, well, he seems to think Elsa was locked away and completely isolated from human contact from birth, saying "Being without human contact until the age of 21, she should have been making grunting noises and building human-shaped statues out of her own poop." That isn't even remotely true, because Elsa wasn't without human contact until she was 21. She wasn't isolated from Anna until she was eight years old, and that early childhood had a lot of social interaction. And she was not totally deprived of human contact, as she is seen speaking with her parents, with Anna, and presumably talked with a few trusted servants. Her isolation was more like self-imposed solitary confinement. That's not saying she wouldn't have had psychological problems (the movie makes clear Elsa is mentally damaged by hurting Anna), but she wouldn't have been a feral child. \n** According to "[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-childhood-favorites-that-did-not-age-well/ 5 Childhood Favorites That Did Not Age Well]]" by Erik Germ, "You might not have realized this while you were caught in the throes of sharing "WHAT 90S' DISNEY PRINCE ARE YOU?", but Disney hasn't had a hand-animated film since 2009's ''Disney/{{The Princess And The Frog}}''." Actually, Disney ''did'' produce one more traditional film: 2011's ''Disney/WinnieThePooh''.\n* One news source for ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' actually calls [[BrattyHalfPint Vanellope Von Schweetz]] Ralph's [[NoYay love interest]].\n* A lot of the news stories about the Creator/BlueSkyStudios ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' film, ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', either implied or claimed outright that it would be the first time the ''Peanuts'' characters would appear on the big screen. There were 4 animated ''Peanuts'' films made between 1969 and 1980.\n* Some articles about ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' assert that the "a bunch of others we don't need to mention" joke, during which images from various canceled or somewhat controversial ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'' lines [[{{Blipvert}} flash on screen]], was a show of SelfDeprecation on LEGO's part, and that the lines in question (for example ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', ''Toys/{{Fabuland}}'' and ''Toys/LEGOFriends'') were some of their biggest failures. While it is true that the LEGO fandom is [[BrokenBase seriously divided]] over these lines, most of them were ''far'' from failures. ''Fabuland'' and ''BIONICLE'' have devoted followings despite the former having been canceled since the '80s, and the latter was one of the company's most successful and top-selling non-licensed properties (not to mention a LongRunner among the action-oriented themes, returning in 2015 for another planned three years), having played a huge part in saving LEGO from going out of business during the early 2000s -- the exact opposite of a failure. The joke was really either the creators poking fun at them or [[spoiler: a reference to how Finn can't play with them since he might not own any of the toys]].\n* Build-a-Bear Workshop's description for their plush toy of Fluffy from ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' starts with "Agnes, Gru's favourite unicorn, is totally adorable in furry friend form!" Fluffy is the name of the unicorn, and Agnes is the name of one of Gru's daughters and the person who actually owns said unicorn, not Gru.\n* [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/jimmy-neutron-boy-genius The Common Sense Media article]] for WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius claims that one of Jimmy's friends is "Shane (a passionate fan of some action heroes called Ultra Lords)". First of all, the character's name is Sheen. Second, Ultra Lord is one character. A case could be made for the latter referring to the action figures instead of any characters, but even so...\n* Many people are confused as to what animals Bing Bong from ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' is supposed to be a combination of. For example, [[http://ttpm.com/p/14512/the-disney-store/inside-out-bing-bong-stuffed-animal/ Time To Play Magazine's]] review of a stuffed animal of his says he is part dog due to his ears looking like those of a dog. Other people claim he is part cow and/or horse, due to his line "You gotta remember when Riley was three, animals were all the rage. The cow goes moo, the horse goes neigh. That's all people talked about." He's actually part cat, elephant and dolphin, but is mostly made of cotton candy. However, according to "The Art Of Inside Out", Bing Bong was originally supposed to be part dog, which explains the ears.\n** One review of the movie claimed that [[spoiler: the collapse of Goofball Island]] led to [[spoiler: the Train of Thought's derailment.]] It's actually [[spoiler: Honesty Island's collapse]] that leads to this event. The reviewer might have been confused due to both scenes involving characters [[spoiler: trying to escape from the catastrophic scene that's unfolding]]. \n** One [=CartoonBrew=] article called Bing Bong a girl in reference to the scene where he stubs his toe. This could be because he is pink and likes girly things like princesses and ponies.\n** IMDB claims that the song "Take My Breath Away" played in this movie. It did not; it played in the ''Riley's First Date?'' short that is a bonus feature on the Blu-ray and DVD of the film, and was probably added because at the time, the short had no listing on the site yet.\n* Sometimes extremist Christian parties pick on cartoons that, according to them, send subliminal messages to children that are watching them, and usually falling in really bad cases of CriticalResearchFailure. This is the case with Italian politician and activist Mario Adinolfi, leader of the "People of the Family"[[note]] a political party notorous for propagating fake news and libel about homosexuality, atheism and adoptive families[[/note]] who strongly bashed ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' for its alleged "Gender Ideology propaganda" and "brainwashing children into homosexuality", based on the fact that Po, or rather [[IAmNotShazam "Kung Fu Panda"]], has two fathers. He blatantly ignored the fact that Mr. Ping was Po's adoptive father ''since the beginning of the series'', and Po has found his true father in the third film. Adinolfi did not even apologize to angered fans of the film, insisting that he found the film's message to be deviating.\n* The ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' tie-in book "Fish Talk" claims that Hank turned pink when [[spoiler: inking himself in the touch pond]]. He didn't change color at all during this incident.\n** [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Ag6o/coppertone-kids-finding-dory-sunburn The description of this Coppertone ad]] based on the movie calls Hank "Frank".\n* A common error is to conflate Disney with Pixar. They are not at all the same; although Pixar is owned by Disney, they are an autonomous company within Disney, not a division thereof. This is particularly bad in the Website/YouTube video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQNZ_Nblrs Pixar Trivia]], supposedly a compilation of "music clips from Pixar movies" -- but one of them was from ''Planes'', which although set in the ''{{WesternAnimation/Cars}}'' universe, was made by Disney, not Pixar.[[note]]And in any case, a lot of them are actually from trailers, and weren't used in the movie.[[/note]] Even worse, many of the more ignorant commenters complained of the "absence" of ''Disney/TheLionKing'' -- which has nothing to do with Pixar.\n* To this day, some people insist that the [[RunningGag Pizza Planet Truck]] appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' -- thereby asserting that they know better than Lee Unkrich and Brad Bird (a senior Pixar staffer, and the Pixar staffer who ''actually directed the movie'').\n* Elsa from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' is often referred to as "Princess Elsa", especially in Brazil, even though her coronation and status as ''queen'' of Arendelle are major plot points. Even then, it's not as bad as when she's called "[[IAmNotShazam Princess Frozen]]"...\n** A review of the film in a French newspaper managed to get the names of the sisters wrong, presenting Anna as having uncontrollable ice powers and Elsa the plucky sister who punched princes in the face.\n* A book adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'' mistakenly called Fallon "Finna," Janessa "Jocelyn," and Kathleen "Kate."\n* [=Zap2it's=] listing for ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'' reads: "Thinking he has real superpowers, the canine star of a hit TV show travels cross-country from Hollywood to New York to rescue his owner and co-star." They get the general idea of the plot right, but get the origin and destination of Bolt's journey backwards; Bolt ''starts'' in New York (after accidentally getting stuck in a mail delivery truck heading there) and journeys to Hollywood from there.\n* [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/teen-titans-go-to-the-movies Common Sense Media's]] review of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'' uses a screenshot from an episode of [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo the series it adapts]], "The Fourth Wall".\n* During ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'''s initial release, a package of Trix yogurt offered quiz questions about [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} the first film]]. One question asked to list off all three of Jafar's wishes, but listed the answers as becoming sultan, then a sorcerer, "and, finally, a snake." Jafar became the gigantic snake as a result of his sorcerer powers, and actually used his third wish to become a genie himself.\n* A video game version of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' for the NES asked which Disney princess fell under the spell of "Queen Malificent". Maleficent was the villain in ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', but the game claims the answer is ''Disney/SnowWhite'' (whose villain is usually just called "The Evil Queen", but was named Grimhilde in concept).\n* DVD Verdict's review of ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'' calls it the first computer animated movie in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, even though ''two'' CGI movies immediately preceded it, and Disney produced a [[Disney/{{Dinosaur}} CG/live-action hybrid]] even earlier. Becomes even more [[CriticalResearchFailure critical]] by the fact the body of the review includes a link to an article about Disney's ''actual'' first all-CGI movie, ''Disney/ChickenLittle''.\n* IGN's review of the ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' Platinum Edition DVD lists that the DVD contains two versions of the film: one animated in [=CinemaScope=], and one with characters and details re-arranged for Academy screens (which are shaped more like squares), offering "a sort of unofficial history lesson for folks who are interested in cinema's technological history." However, if he read the back cover more carefully, he would have noticed the DVD actually contains ''Lady and the Tramp'' in [=CinemaScope=] --its original, unedited format-- and Pan and Scan. Instead of including the specially-modified version (which would have had to be restored too), Disney simply cropped the picture for people who can't tolerate black bars on 4:3 TV sets. So much for learning about technological history.\n* The official Hungarian description to ''Toys/{{Bionicle}} 3: Web of Shadows'' claimed that the villainous pair, Roodaka and Sidorak, are Makuta. While the name Makuta ''does'' refer to a whole race of beings, within the context of the movie, there was only one Makuta, with Roodaka and Sidorak being his servants. In the defense of whoever wrote or mistranslated the description, though, the movie leaves a ''lot'' of story-points horribly vague, so watching it wouldn't have helped much.\n* One of the cards in the Disney version of ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' shows a picture of Disney/{{Cinderella}} losing her slipper shortly after marrying PrinceCharming, and asks what time it was when the scene occurred. The card says the scene occurred at midnight, even though Cinderella actually got married at noon. Apparently, someone mistook this for a picture of the ball.\n* [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/The_Return_of_the_King_1980.aspx This review]] of the 1980 cartoon version of Tolkien's ''Return of the King'' (an unofficial attempt to complete Ralph Bakshi's aborted version) starts with the reviewer stating that they haven't read the original books. They nevertheless go on to complain about how the cartoon deviates from the original text such as having Sam tempted by the ring with visions of turning Middle Earth into a giant garden, Denethor possessing a Palantir and the presence of The Watchers (semi-alive giant vulture statues). ALL of these are in the original book.\n* A lot of summaries of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInArabianNights'', make it seem like a regular ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' episode only set in the Middle East, when it is actually more or less an adaptation of the original book with Scooby and a DisguisedInDrag Shaggy taking the place of Scheherazade.\n* There used to be a very vocal group on the Website/IMDb discussion boards who claimed that "{{Creator/Dreamworks}} rips off {{Creator/Pixar}}" when in fact all the "examples" they quoted were of pairs of movies (e.g. ''{{WesternAnimation/Antz}}'' vs. ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'') which had almost nothing in common other than that they (1) were CGI animations, (2) had similar protagonists and (3) came out at around the same time (which can be accounted for entirely by the fact that there are fashions in movie scriptwriting as in everything else, hence also the rash of disaster movies in the early [[TheSeventies 1970s]]). (One thing those commentors evidently failed to grasp was animation lead time; it just isn't possible to crank out a high-quality, feature length animation in short order.) One particularly dumb example was that ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' was supposedly "ripped off" from ''{{WesternAnimation/Ratatouille}}'' despite the fact that the former is actually an Creator/AardmanAnimations film (Dreamworks only distributed it) hence is a poor choice for anyone wanting to prove anything about Dreamworks; and (2) the ''only'' thing the two have in common is that both have rodent protagonists -- hardly a unique selling point in animation (one could just as logically claim that "''Ratatouille'' ripped off (insert title of random Mickey Mouse cartoon here)").\n* The Facebook page for ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'' posted a photo captioned: "Happy #[=WolfWednesday=]! Could we interest you in this beautiful white wolf pup?" [[http://cdn.attackofthecute.com/June-10-2012-08-05-32-3657009529e65126c316b.jpg The image they posted]] showed an arctic fox.\n[[/folder]]\n\n[[folder:Live-Action Films]]----



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** At the fifth film's release, one Bulgarian newspaper published an article titled "''Harry Potter'' is getting lewd", illustrated by a random picture of a scantily clad Helena Bonham Carter and implying that Bellatrix will be introduced as a FemmeFatale, possibly acting this way towards Harry. There was, of course, no such thing in the movie, and Bellatrix' AdaptationalAttractiveness boiled down to her not looking like she's spent 15 years at a mind-breaking prison.
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* Thomas Pope's screenwriting guide ''Good Scripts, Bad Scripts'' says that ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' screenwriter Diane Thomas was unable to write the sequel due to AuthorExistenceFailure. In fact, she was unable to work on the sequel because of other commitments. ''The Jewel Of The Nile'' finished filming three months before Thomas' fatal car accident.
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* A talking head on CNBC reported that the then-just released ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' had broken the opening box office record held by the movie ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}''. However, ''Aquaman'' at that point in time was just a [[ShowWithinAShow fictional movie]] within the universe of ''Series/{{Entourage}}'', and didn't come out in real life until the end of [[Film/{{Aquaman}} 2018]].

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* A truly bad example of this that ultimately got the film's release delayed indefinitely came with the 2019 American horror film ''The Hunt'', a HuntingTheMostDangerousGame movie with an added SlobsVersusSnobs angle, in which the [[RichBitch wealthy villains]] are coded as "blue state" liberals and the {{working class hero}}es are coded as "red state" conservatives (the original title was even ''Red State vs. Blue State''). One might think that the film was designed to appeal to conservative audiences who distrusted liberals, and indeed, it did raise eyebrows among liberal pundits and outlets... but that wasn't where the real controversy came from. ''That'' came when conservative pundits and outlets [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/liberals-hunt-conservatives-film/ mistook the film]] for one where the audience was supposed to be ''{{rooting for|TheEmpire}}'' the rich hunters, even though the trailer made it obvious where the audience's sympathy is supposed to lie. Combine that with the specter of two high-profile mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio within twenty-four hours of one another, and Creator/{{Universal}} put the film on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment, citing TooSoon as the reason why.

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