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00:00Just like in the prior version of this very list, one that was also hugely helped by the
00:05wonderful folks at our movie details, it simply didn't matter how unbelievably insane or outrageous
00:11all of these particular movie details and moments were. Viewers still largely somehow didn't catch
00:18massively unexpected cameos and other brilliant details sitting right under their noses.
00:23So I'm Gareth, this is WhatCulture, and here are 10 more insane movie moments you won't believe
00:29you never spotted.
00:3110. The Elephants Are Balancing on a Rather Familiar Ball in Aladdin
00:36Guy Ritchie's 2019 live-action remake of Aladdin brought with it Will Smith's take on the charismatic
00:43genie in the lamp that was once iconically played by the late, great Robin Williams.
00:48One of the most adored moments to go down in that original animated version of the feature
00:52involved Williams' blue legend unleashing a colourful rendition of the friend-like Me tune,
00:58and fans were very much curious about what Smith himself would bring to such a well-known
01:03Disney classic.
01:04Whilst being well and truly distracted by the big blue magical figure bringing the showstopper
01:09to an end with a few splits alongside Mina Masood's titular hero though, many probably
01:14overlooked a rather cute easter egg being insanely balanced on by some CGI elephants in the background.
01:20Look closely at said balls somehow not being crushed by their giant mammals, and you'll
01:25probably just about spot that this is the very same blue and yellow ball with a red star
01:30on it, aka the Luxar ball, that has popped up in a ton of Pixar projects over the years,
01:36including Toy Story, Up, The Incredibles, Inside Out, and more.
01:40And while Aladdin may not fall under the Disney Pixar animated banner, Ritchie and the House
01:46of Mouse still clearly wanted to salute the studio and unmistakable ball here, in the most
01:51insane but easily missed way imaginable.
01:54Now what's your favourite Disney movie of the last decade?
01:57Was it Aladdin or something else?
01:58You let me know in the comments section down below, friends.
02:01Number 9.
02:02The Inverted Nike Logo in Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse's Darker Universe
02:07Without doubt one of the most gloriously detailed and gripping animated features released in the
02:12last decade, Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse sequel Across the Spider-Verse, is honestly
02:17the visual gift that just keeps on giving.
02:20It often feels like absolutely every frame is overflowing with easy to miss easter eggs,
02:24and details just begging to be discovered by audiences.
02:28And that was definitely the case during the closing moments of the mesmerising and hugely
02:32moving 2023 picture.
02:35As Miles Morales surprisingly finds himself in the Earth-42 dimension instead of his own,
02:40a quick look at that universe's skyline shows you just how much darker things really are
02:44in this world.
02:45This being the universe where Miles or anyone did not become Spider-Man, the city's crime
02:51levels are through the roof, and it appears a lot of the hope and positivity has been drained
02:55out of it.
02:56As seen in the fact the iconic Nike Just Do It slogan has been replaced by a far more negative
03:01don't-do-it one on a building in the background.
03:04It's such an insanely small but marvellous detail, and one that is easily not caught
03:10during even your first few watches.
03:12But once you do, it makes an already bleak universe feel that little bit more hopeless.
03:17Number 8.
03:18An easily missed shooting star shows the network arriving in the world's end.
03:23Before telling the invading Big Lamp, known as the network, to F off during Agda Wright's
03:27final Cornetto trilogy flick known as The World's End, said alien entity lets Gary King know
03:33that they've helped connect the planet through technology over the last 23 years, confirming
03:38they've been on Earth for over two decades.
03:41But that was actually already secretly revealed very early on in the picture, during the beer-soaked
03:46opening scene.
03:47That sequence, which focuses on King and his pals attempting to complete the Golden Mile,
03:52a 12-pub crawl in the town of Newton Haven as youngsters, ends with Gary sat on a hill
03:58watching the sun rise after a hell of a night out.
04:00And it's during that moment that you can actually spot a quite insane visual detail if you're
04:06looking closely enough.
04:07Basil mentions later on in the movie that when a shooting star shot across the sky on
04:11the night of the gang's original pub crawl, that was actually the network arriving on their
04:16planet.
04:16Keep an eye on the top-left part of the sky as Gary sits on the hill as a youngster,
04:20and you'll absolutely see that very same shooting star crashing down to the Earth for a second
04:26or two all the way back in 1990, 23 years before Gary meets the network.
04:31Basil called it.
04:33Number 7, The Changing Lamp in Oppenheimer
04:35From a Big Lamp to a Little Lamp, a director known for his rather insane attention to detail,
04:42it won't come as too much of a surprise to hear that Christopher Nolan was at it again during
04:46the making of the Oscar-winning biopic that was Oppenheimer.
04:49Though you likely weren't paying too much attention to the various objects in Lyle Johnson's
04:54office when J. Robert Oppenheimer is first seen in that location in the movie, a quick
04:59glance at the lamp in two scenes there, minutes apart, reveals something quite fascinating.
05:04Those items completely change between that first scene and the one where Oppenheimer meets
05:09Boris Pash a day later, subtly showing how the government had begun spying on the former
05:14by planting a recording device in this new lamp. Such an insane detail is so easily overlooked
05:20during a first watch of this massive epic. But with the words exchange in this office eventually
05:25being used as evidence against Oppenheimer during his intense security hearings, it does appear that
05:30this swiftly changing lamp had something to do with it.
05:336. Toy Story 2 Contains Some Rather Intriguing Playthings In Al's Toy Barn
05:39Disney Pixar's follow-up to the instantly iconic Toy Story saw Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the gang
05:46doing everything they could to find their pal Woody and bring him home after he was stolen by toy
05:51collector Al McGuigan. Their search eventually brought them to said Al's Toy Barn, a giant toy store.
05:57It's here when the team split up to find the titular Chicken Man who will lead them to their
06:01cowboy mate, and a quite mad detail you never spotted suddenly reveals itself.
06:07Rex and Mr. Potato Head wander down one specific aisle in the shop, and a whole host of different
06:12toy boxes are visible on the shelves around them, with some of them being quite intriguing,
06:17while others are a little, let's say, unexpected. Along with Pixar finding a way to sneak a Senorita
06:24cactus reference into the scene, a character who was originally going to be a part of Woody's
06:28roundup instead of Jesse, the team behind the picture also dropped what looks like a creepy and
06:34easily missed zombie cheerleader toy into the background here, for just $6.99. What a bargain.
06:41It would have likely been a very different film had these undead playthings broken free and hunted
06:46down our heroes. But who wouldn't pay to see a demented scenario involving Buzz zapping his way
06:51through a horde of zombie cheerleaders? I know I would.
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07:01Number 5. Dobby the Elf Gucci Model Is Visible In Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
07:06The return of animated legends Chip and Dale, known as 2022's Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers,
07:13boasted a ton of rather insane cameos, it must be said. But if the infamous ugly Sonic the Hedgehog
07:19popping up on screen for a few moments wasn't enough for you, there was actually another far
07:24more surreal appearance you likely didn't even clock during a first watch. As Chip wanders down
07:30the Hollywood Walk of Fame at one point, not only is a star earned by none other than Spongebob
07:35Squarepants Squidward visible on the floor, well earned if you ask me, a quite ridiculous blink-and-you'll-miss-it
07:41Harry Potter cameo soon arrives on screen too. Whilst admitting that the incoming Batman vs. E.T.
07:47flick actually looks pretty good, a somewhat blurred poster in the background seemingly shows
07:52off a post-Potter series Dobby the Elf now modelling for Gucci. Because not only is he
07:57a free elf, it turns out he's a damn stylish one as well. What a world, eh?
08:02Number 4. Gru Has Some Insane Relatives In His Despicable Me Family Tree
08:08If it hadn't already been made clear in this list, the world of animation can often be a bit
08:13of a mad one. And sure enough, an animated classic about a supervillain trying to steal
08:18the moon contained its fair share of insane moments too. However, there is one quite nutty
08:23detail in that first Despicable Me feature that flew under just about everyone's radars,
08:29and it could be found during the scene when Gru checks out his family tree. Before glancing
08:33down at the delightful additional family members scribbled onto the wall by his adopted daughters,
08:38a quick pause of the screen on that family tree reveals a whole host of utterly insane
08:43relatives. Along with the Gru family containing a great many different races and seemingly villainous
08:49characters, including pirates and creepy scientists, it also boasts a rather furry member, with it
08:55looking like one of Gru's ancestors was actually a werewolf called Marcel. In other words, it seems
09:01Gru genuinely does have that dog in him. Or wolf in him. Or something. Whatever.
09:06Number 3. A Mojo Jojo cameo that connects to Ghostface in Scream 6
09:12As the likes of Tara Carpenter and the rest of the group head down into the subway to catch a
09:17train to the theatre during 2023's latest slice of Ghostface slasher chaos, they pass a number of
09:24folks in fancy dress in Scream 6. However, there's actually one costume here that sits as a pretty
09:29insane detail that very few likely spotted when they first took in this hit horror sequel.
09:34You see, one of the people wandering around New York here was actually seemingly sporting a Mojo
09:40Jojo costume of all things. You know, the evil genius seen trying to destroy the Powerpuff Girls
09:46during that classic cartoon series. Far from being just a cute little nod to a cartoon network show,
09:51this was actually a surprising easter egg of sorts. The same bloke who voiced Mojo Jojo in the Powerpuff
09:57Girls, Roger L. Jackson, was also the voice of the original Ghostface in that first movie in 1996,
10:04and has voiced the character in every subsequent Scream entry. So this Mojo cameo was seemingly an
10:10insanely subtle way of saluting the longtime voice of the franchise's iconic killer under everyone's
10:16noses.
10:17Number 2. A Visible Shard in Children of Men Even Though It Hadn't Been Built Yet
10:22Releasing in 2006, dystopian thriller Children of Men told the story of a world where the human race
10:29had been shockingly infertile for two decades, and viewers were thrust right into this rather
10:34bleak and dangerous year of 2027 early on, as Theo Farron picks up a coffee after discovering the
10:41youngest person alive had just been murdered. He's then very nearly blown to pieces on the streets
10:45of London. But if you actually look closely at the skyline in the moments just before that sudden
10:50explosion, you'll notice a particularly insane detail added into this opening stretch.
10:55Despite construction on the building only beginning in 2009, three years after this film
11:00released, the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the Shard, is very much visible in the
11:05distance here. It was remarkably thrown into the scene via CGI, with early architectural drawings
11:11for the unmistakable building being used to digitally recreate the tower for this moment,
11:15set 18 years after work first began on it. That is some rather insane attention to detail there
11:21from the great Alfonso Cuaron, and helps make this particular version of the future feel that
11:26little more realistic.
11:27At number 1, Shaggy finds his fans in Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed by Smelling Weed
11:33It's definitely hinted at on a number of occasions during the first live-action Scooby-Doo movie that the
11:39titular mutt's best pal Shaggy was a big ol' fan of the marijuana. And that 2002 family films follow-up
11:45Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed once again offered a few easily missed details that suggest Shaggy
11:51knows a thing or two about getting high. Not long after Mystery Inc. arrived to open an exhibition
11:56focusing on the many mysteries they'd solved in the past, the laid-back Shaggy walks down the red
12:01carpet before being stopped in his tracks by what seems to be a familiar smell. As a very subtle cloud
12:07of smoke departs, he soon spots the group of Shaggy stans cheering him on nearby, and quickly
12:13starts throwing out totally awesome high-fives. It's pretty clear what's being suggested here,
12:18and it's a quite insane detail. One you won't believe you overlooked for so long, that was
12:23somehow snuck into a big-screen adaptation of a family-friendly cartoon, and the hiding-in-plain-sight
12:29weed jokes seemingly don't stop there either. As many as Scooby-Doo diehard has spotted over
12:34the ears, it very much looks like Scoob's mate is dressed up as a blunt here too. Or maybe
12:39this was nothing more than an innocent suit version of Shaggy's typical green and brown
12:43costume, eh? You can come to your own conclusion on that.
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