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There are endless details to keep track of when filming a movie, so sometimes goofs happen. Below are some of the mistakes that happened while creating Enchanted, the charming Disney picture that is destined to become a classic. There also are some fun trivia facts about movie, which you can use to quiz your friends who are Enchanted fans.

Enchanted movie trivia

• One of the apartment doors in Robert’s (played by Patrick Dempsey) building is marked “714,” which is the area code for Orange County, California, the home of Disneyland.
• The green pepper slices on the pizza at the Italian restaurant and the bus driver’s hair are shaped shaped like Mickey Mouse ears.
• Giselle’s wedding dress weighed 45 pounds. Amy Adams had to be taught by a stunt double to move in the heavy gown.
• Enchanted was delivered to theaters with the fake name Radio to keep people from knowing what it was before it was released.
• Two of the male dancers in the park had previously worked together on 1961′s West Side Story and one of the dancers was a dancing chimney sweep in 1964′s Mary Poppins.

Enchanted movie goofs

• As Giselle (played by Amy Adams) and Robert sit and talk at a table in the Italian restaurant, Robert’s hair changes from shot to shot.
• Giselle takes a subway ride from Times Square to the Bowery, even though she doesn’t have any money. And Edward eats lunch in a deli, yet he doesn’t have any money either.
• Giselle makes herself a beautiful dress out of Robert’s curtains, yet the color of the fabric in the dress is different from the curtain fabric.
• Nathaniel (played by Timothy Spall) reaches his hand into boiling hot soup to pull out three poisoned apples, but he doesn’t appear to burn himself or feel any pain.
• When Giselle stands on “The Palace Casino” billboard, the billboard is dry, even though it just stopped raining a few minutes before.

You might also enjoy this trivia quiz about 2007 movies, which contains a trivia question about Enchanted.

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Plenty of romantic movies can help you get in the mood for Valentine’s Day, but these 10 are among our favorites. The V-Day film-watching formula is simple: grab the chocolate ice cream, a box of Kleenex (depending on the movie) and the remote control. Then, fire up one of these movies on DVD and enjoy:

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947
Starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison
104 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“You’ll forgive me if I take a minute to get accustomed to you.”

Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
Starring Woody Allen, Diane Wiest, Carrie Fisher, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey
103 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“And Nietzsche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we’re gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I’ll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.”

The Enchanted Cottage
1945
Starring Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick
91 minutes
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Memorable quote from the movie:
Oliver Bradford (Robert Young): “Well, apparently you don’t complain!”
Major John Hillgrove (Herbert Marshall): “You haven’t given me a chance.”

When Harry Met Sally
1989
Starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
96 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“Had my dream again where I’m making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I’d nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.”

Moonstruck
1987
Starring Cher, Nicholas Cage, Olympia Dukakis
102 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“Pardon me folks. That was just a very attractive mental patient.”

The Lake House
2006
Starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves
Rated PG, 105 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“Even though this is clearly impossible, it’s amazing.“

You’ve Got Mail
1998
Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey
119 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“It was a perfect blend of poetry and meanness.”

Gone With the Wind
1939
Starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard
226 min (copyright length), 238 min (restored U.S. DVD version)

Memorable quote from the movie:
“No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”

Chasing Amy
1997
Starring Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee
113 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams): “So, you’ve never been curious about men?”
Holden (Ben Affleck): “Curious about men? Well, I always wondered why my father watched Hee Haw.”

Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
Starring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell
117 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“That’s the great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid; people are less suspicious of you.”

I hope you enjoyed these romantic movie recommendations.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Continuity errors happen in every film, because it’s difficult to make sure every little detail is perfect. Superbad is no exception; it had a lot of them. Here are just some of those Superbad trivia gems:

• McLovin’s wound, which resulted from being punched in the liquor store, is seen at first on the side of his face under the stem of his glasses. Later, it appears on the front of his cheek.

• A red chair at the end of the table disappears and reappears while Seth and Evan eat lunch.

• You can see it’s getting dark when Evan and Seth are in the store, because car lights and streetlights come on. But when they come out of the store, the sun is out.

• After Seth gets hit by the guy’s car in the store parking lot, the “open” sign seen behind the car owner changes from off to on from one shot to the next.

• Fogell’s fake I.D. signature is spelled “McLovin” when he shows it to Seth and Evan, but when it’s seen again in the store, it’s spelled “McLoving.”

• Seth has blood on his jeans at the party, but it’s gone when he sees the officers after the party. It then reappears when he gets to the next party.

• The dent on the detergent bottle that Evan holds in his left hand disappears and reappears while he and Seth argue.

• The cops run the red light on James Street twice on their way to the bar.

• The policemen and dispatcher on the intercom say that the cop car number is 98, but the number on the car is actually 96.

I hope you enjoyed this Superbad trivia!

If you haven’t done so already, take our Superbad and other Seth Rogen films movie trivia quiz and read our Superbad movie review.

If you’re a fan of the “f” word, you’re going to love Superbad.

No self-respecting Superbad movie review would be complete without mentioning that the “f” word was used 186 times — and the unrated version of the movie was only 118 minutes long (114 for the rated version). That’s an average of approximately 1.6 uses of the word per minute.

But even if you don’t like to hear the “f” word sprayed around like water out of an open fire hydrant, there’s plenty to like about this movie. And you don’t even have to be in high school. Actually, writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were younger than that when they wrote the movie; they were only 13. That’s probably what made the movie so appealing to me. (Although, I like all Seth Rogen movies.) I sure wouldn’t want to be that young again, but it’s fun to be taken there again for two hours or so.

If I had to reduce the movie to an elevator pitch (a description that can be heard in the time it takes to go on an elevator ride), here’s how it would play out: “Three alcohol-obsessed boys go on a local road trip to find said alcohol and get girls. Hilarity ensues.”

But if I were to describe it for grown-ups who might want to watch the movie, I would add some details you probably wouldn’t expect if you only heard the elevator pitch: There’s a beating heart at the center of Superbad. Main characters Seth, Evan and Fogell (aka McLovin), two of which are named after writers Rogen and Goldberg, alternate between being obnoxious teenagers and semi-enlightened beings. This vacillation elevates the movie above being just an f-bomb-filled, trashy-talkfest. The characters’ going back and forth between doing the right thing and very wrong things makes it a lot like life. Hey, there are a lot of supposed adults out in the world who don’t have these kids’ grasp on the fact that they need to take some responsibility for their behavior.

But don’t let me make the movie seem too high-tone; it’s not. It wasn’t meant to be. It was meant to be just a funny teenage movie with a lot of cussing and plenty of laughs. And in that, it succeeded.

Movie trivia

• Filming locations (all in California):

* California State University, Northridge (parking lot scene)
* Los Angeles
* Culver City
* El Segundo High School, El Segundo
* Glendale (convenience store)

• Explicit drawings of penises used in the film were drawn by David Goldberg, Evan Goldberg’s brother. Seth Rogen also used another family member in the movie: When the characters of Seth and Evan are running from the police through people’s backyards, Seth Rogen’s father Mark Rogen appears as the baseball-bat-wielding dad.

Watch trailers for the movie at the official Sony Pictures Superbad Web site

I hope you enjoyed this movie review. Be sure to take our movie trivia quiz about Superbad and other Seth Rogen films. (We’ve already given you one of the answers in this movie review!)

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Can you guess the answers to this movie trivia quiz about chick flicks?

Also, check out part 2 and part 3 of the teenage chick flicks movie trivia quiz series.

1. In Mean Girls, which of the actresses who played a “plastic” was initially supposed to play Cady, the part played by Lindsay Lohan?

2. On which book was the movie Mean Girls based?

3. Which of the “plastics” actresses is actually 10 years older than Lindsay Lohan?

4. Drop Dead Gorgeous screenwriter Lona Williams was once a contestant in local beauty pageants and appears in the film. Which part does she play?

5. Which actress who was in a hit 2007 movie had her screen debut in Drop Dead Gorgeous?

6. In Saved, Pastor Skip enters the library to talk to Hilary Faye and the Christian Jewels about Mary. There’s a poster featuring which band visible over his shoulder? (Hint: The band’s lead singer was a co-producer on the movie.)

7. Mandy Moore was given the part of Hilary Faye in Saved, but which actress was originally supposed to play her?

8. What are the letters on the license plate of Hilary Faye’s car?

9. In Clueless, Alicia Silverstone (who played Cher) didn’t know how to pronounce a word in one of the classroom scenes. Director Amy Heckerling told everyone not to correct her so she could include the entertaining mispronunciation in the film. Which word was it?

10. On which classic story is Clueless loosely based?

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1. Amanda Seyfried, who plays Karen in the film, was initially supposed to play Cady, but producer Lorne Michaels thought she would be better as the dumb girl and that Lindsay Lohan would make a better “good girl.”

2. Mean Girls was based on Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman, even though it is a non-fiction self-help guide for parents that has no narrative. Tine Fey of Saturday Night Live wrote the script.

3. Although Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams play characters who are presumably in the same grade, there’s a 10-year age difference between the two actresses.

4. Lona Williams plays Jean, the pageant’s non-speaking judge, in Drop Dead Gorgeous.

5. Amy Adams, who starred in Enchanted, had her film debut in Drop Dead Gorgeous.

6. The poster visible over Pastor Skip’s shoulder is for R.E.M. Lead singer Michael Stipe co-produced the film.

7. The role of Hilary Faye was originally given to Anne Hathaway, but funding fell through and then Hathaway had to start shooting Ella Enchanted.

8. Hilary Faye’s license plate is “JC GIRL.”

9. Alicia Silverstone mispronounced “Haitians” as “Hate-ee-uns.”

10. Clueless is loosely based on Jane Austen’s book Emma.

How did you do on this movie trivia quiz about teenage chick flicks? If you didn’t get the answers to most of the questions, don’t worry; you’re not alone. Some of them were hard!

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