A Real Howler of a Continuity Error

Rating: 8/10 (30 August 2005)

For a perfectionist like Tim Burton to goof up so conspicuously is amazing in itself, yet so far I haven't seen any viewer's comment that picks up on this ridiculous continuity error. I refer of course to the scene near the end of the movie where the skull of the Hessian horseman is returned to him and he reattaches it to his neck. The skull has fairly normal looking teeth, yet we clearly saw at the beginning of the movie that the horseman had filed his teeth to sharp points. To make things worse, when the newly attached skull has acquired an overgrowth of facial tissue, skin, hair, eyes and a tongue - lo and behold the teeth are once again filed into sharp points.