19 Mistakes From 'The Parent Trap' Fans Didn't Catch (2024)

It is hilarious, beautiful, and will even prompt a tear or two from you!

It's a perfect movie.

It is because of that that we have decided to compile a list of some of the biggest mistakes in the movie!

Let's get into it!

Have a look at the green lamé on the front of her jacket — soaking wet, right? Well, it should be considering Annie just knocked her into a water trough!

Keep your eyes glued to it because something's about to happen...

I've heard of fast-drying or even water-resistant clothing but I don't think that's what we're seeing here.

More likely there was a cut scene and Lindsay Lohan had to be repositioned.

Pay attention during the scene with the water-balloon booby traps. When the final giant balloon falls, the camera is pointed downward.

As it falls, Annie takes one step forward — ensuring that the balloon will hit her.

When Hallie (playing Annie) approaches her mother's home, she pushes open the door and holds onto a large doorknob.

If you keep watching as the door swings open, you can see the knob completely vanish.

After arriving in San Francisco, Hallie, along with her mother and Martin, exit the car and close the door.

As they approach the hotel, the camera zooms up on Hallie and you can clearly see that the car door is once again opened.

During the scene where Annie (playing Hallie) meets Meredith for the first time, keep a close eye on Nick's sunglasses.

The camera zooms in on Annie (Hallie) and when it zooms out, Nick's sunglasses have been plucked right from atop his head!

Watch as Hallie makes her way down the steps of the isolation cabin. When the scene begins, the color of the scrunchie tying back her hair is a kind of faded yellow.

When the camera cuts and changes direction, the scrunchie in her hair is green.

This scene used to make me squirm! But a careful eye reveals a lot.

When the camera zooms in, right before Hallie pierces Annie's ear, you can see that there's already a visible earring hole.

While Hallie and Annie are stuck in the isolation cabin, there's a shot of a bucket catching water. It's resting on the floor, perched on top of a stack of books.

Watch after the wind blows through the window and the pictures fall to the ground — all of a sudden the books that were underneath the bucket completely vanish.

As Annie and her two friends approach the fencing area, all three are holding tennis rackets.

When the camera cuts to the counselor and back to the girls, two rackets disappear and then reappear a split moment later!

As you can see from the setting sun behind Nick and Liz, it appears to be just before twilight.

Which is odd, considering when Nick fell in the pool only two minutes prior, the sun was high in the sky?

When shooting a movie outdoors, you're always at the mercy of the weather.

Clearly the sun wasn't agreeing and this shot had to be done at varying times.

Bare with me because we're about to do some quick math! At the beginning of the film, Nick and Liz meet, get married, and get pregnant on the Queen Elizabeth II.

We then jump eleven years and nine months into the future to find the girls at camp.

Let's assume that their camp begins somewhere between July/August. That would make the girls 11 years and roughly nine months old.

But the film isn't accounting for the nine months it takes to actually carry a baby to term! Therefore, the girls should have just turned 11 — not be turning 12.

Obviously Lindsay Lohan doesn't have a twin, so the actors had to get creative and use their imagination when doing scenes.

If you watch when Meredith discovers that the girls are twins, she looks into the face of Hallie but stares right over Annie — because she wasn't actually there!

But in the next scene, when she meets with the camp leaders and Hallie, she is completely dry!

That is some kind of movie magic right there. How do they do it?

When the twins are leaning against the wall of the cabin and talking, at one point you can see that only one of the twins has a shadow.

This was likely an editing mistake. Editing took quite some time since Lohan had to play two parts.

When Meredith wakes up on the lake, you see a bird on her chest.

The bird is a red-crested turaco, which resides in Africa. How on Earth would it have made it all the way to the United States?

When they show the lake and sign that says Camp Walden, there are boats under a roof in front of the pier.

But when Annie jumps into the lake, the roof and boats are gone.

When Allie and Annie drag Meredith to the lake, she's asleep and you can clearly see that the mattress is a deep green color.

But all that changes when she wakes up the next morning.

But then when she stands up, it is another color again.

A mistake or a trick of the light?We will never know.

When Hallie calls Annie in California, the phone operator should have informed Hallie that she was making a collect call, and she would have had to accept the charges.

But none of that happened!

While we know that this was done to allow the story to develop, the idea of leaving two young girls alone in a cabin with no supervision is really far-fetched.

This would never happen in real life.

Or were you one of the ones that completely missed these mistakes?

Either way, let us know down below in the comment section! We would love to hear from you!