Making a movie is no easy feat. As a moviegoer, all you can see is a beautifully told story. However, there are months and sometimes years of work put into making the finished product that eventually runs in theaters. It’s a lot of hard work.
That goes double when the movie in question is an animated feature. You might think that there is less work involved when it comes to putting together an animated film, but it’s quite the opposite! There are even more people working together to get these movies made.
Sometimes, no matter how much work people put into a movie, there are inevitably going to be a some mistakes. Here are 6 of the biggest bloopers that you won’t believe actually made it into the final cut!
1. Beauty and The Beast (1991): In this Disney classic: a selfish prince is cursed and transformed into a beast until he can find true love, despite his frightening appearance. Unfortunately, there’s a discrepancy after he takes out his anger on a portrait. In one scene, he slashes the painting one way; in another, Belle discovers the painting slashed the opposite direction. Woof.
2. Shrek (2001): You might think of cartoons as being “kid stuff,” but the truth is that a lot of very grown-up work goes into perfecting a feature-length animated film. The beloved film Shrek is no exception! When Shrek and Donkey were talking about saving the swamp in one scene, animators forgot to keep an eye on Shrek’s… eye. He’s supposed to closing his eyes, but you can see one right through his eyelid. Whoops!
3. Finding Nemo (2003): The people who make animated films are experts at what they do, and they have a tremendous amount of experience in their field. However, it takes hundreds of folks to make each movie and sometimes oversights just happen… like this plastic bag fiasco.
4. Wreck It Ralph (2014): In this movie about characters who live inside old arcade games, making a mistake could cost them their very existence inside the arcade. Thankfully, the animators’ own mistakes didn’t have such drastic consequences, but they’re still noticeable.
5. The Lion King (1994): In this classic tale, young Simba the lion overcomes his grief and guilt to follow in the footsteps of his father in order to become the king of the jungle. His friend, Nala, captures his heart during that journey with her companionship and sparkling green… er, blue… no, green eyes.
6. Frozen (2013): This family-friendly musical about sisterly love and embracing what makes us different is actually a brilliant retelling of the popular fairytale The Snow Queen as it has never been told before. Do you know what else hasn’t been done before? The physics of moving an entire braid through a body. Sheesh.