10+ Mistakes Fans Didn't Notice In 'Moana'

The Frigatebird is easily spotted due to its pronounced red breast. However, these are strictly sea birds and do not feed on land.

Early Polynesians supposedly used the birds to help navigate while at sea.

At the beginning of the film, there's a scene where young Moana saves a baby turtle and is then lured to the sea.

If you pay close attention to her footprints, they disappear without a trace.

She literally just had it! How could this be?

It's what she used to save the baby turtle's life, so where could it have possibly gone?

Right from the very beginning of the film, until the end, Pua is always depicted as being a baby pig.

How is it that the lovable swine doesn't seem to age when we clearly see that Moana has?

We first meet Hei Hei (the slightly less-than-intelligent Rooster) when Moana is still a baby. Yet, somehow, he's also alive and well when she embarks on her sea voyage at the age of sixteen!

This is impossible as Roosters don't live more than eight or, at the very most, 15 years.

During the scene when Moana and Maui are on the raft together, his hook is seen lying beside him on the ground.

It changes directions with the cut scenes if you watch closely.

Take a look at the wooden staff that's just by Moana's left hand. Once she discovers that Hei Hei is on board, don't take your eyes off of it!

You'll see that it get drastically smaller as the scene progresses.

When Moana and Maui are under attack, Hei Hei accidentally (on purpose) eats the Heart of Te Fiti.

When Moana climbs the mast to retrieve the bird, the trap door is open. When she jumps and lands, it's somehow closed?

This is one of the funnier scenes in the entire film so make sure to keep a sharp eye!

When the scene cuts to Moana jumping to the boat, the food is gone. But then by the time it pans back to Hei Hei, he's eating yet again!

This is clearly a break in continuity because the basket is far too large to just be obscured from view.

As soon as Moana enters, the basket, as well as the coconut shells, are nowhere in sight.

When the chief and the villagers are singing their song to Moana, you can see at least eight coconuts are shaken loose from the trees.

However, the chief only catches four of them and nothing hits the ground.

As you can see, before Moana's grandmother makes her way to the sea, she plants her cane into the sand with the handle facing out to the right.

When the scene cuts, you will clearly see that it has somehow changed directions and is now facing left.

When Maui first changes into a shark, there is absolutely nothing between him and Moana except sand.

In the following shot, a rock appears. Maui even kicks it out of his way as he walks toward Moana.

In the intro to the film, we get a shot of Maui stealing the Heart of Te Feti through his back tattoos.

Watch carefully and you'll see a tattoo that depicts Maui getting hit by Teka and losing his hook. This shouldn't be because it hasn't happened yet.

When Moana and Maui first cross paths, she tells him that she is going to restore the Heart of Te Fiti and opens her necklace to him. Only Maui doesn't react at all!

He doesn't get scared until the second time that he sees it.

Before Moana's mother sits down to talk with her, the scene begins with Moana hurling sticks into the sand.

When she begins her song, somehow the sticks seem to have completely vanished.

After Moana leaps from the Kakamora's ship (in magnificent fashion, I might add) she lands on her raft and there are no visible ships in sight.

Yet, in the very next cut scene, she's wedged between two massive Jolly Rogers.

When Moana discovers the secret fleet of boats, a rather large rock appears by the prow out of nowhere.

It clearly wasn't in the previous frame, so where did it come from?

After defeating the Kakamora, Maui sets a course and explains that they must head east.

In the next scene, the sun is setting to the left of them, which means that they're facing north.

After Maui steals the heart from Te Fiti, he leaps off a cliff and turns into a bird.

He lands with his hook in hand, yet when the scene cuts to a different angle, the hook is gone.

During the song "Shiny," watch Tamatoa's collection of treasures.

At times, the light rotates with him as he moves, but at other moments the light moves on its own, even when he remains still.

When we first see Moana arrive on Maui's island, there's no sail attached to her canoe. However, as soon as Maui leaves, the sail is suddenly back in its place.

How did that happen?

Before Moana begins her sea voyage home, Te Fiti gifts her a new boat adorned with beautiful flowers.

But when she returns to the village, all the flowers are gone. It looks no different than the old one.

As you can see, the original mural that hangs is of a scary-looking monstrous creature with three eyes.

When the scene cuts, the mural is replaced with one of Te Fiti.

Initially, there's quite a bit of wreckage that seems to have washed up on the beach.

But when the camera switches to Pua and then back to Moana, somehow the pile has shrunk drastically.