Trivia: Miss Honey's doll's name is Liccy Doll. Roald Dahl's second wife's name was Liccy Dahl.
Trivia: The look of the movie is based on a collection of Topps trading cards.
Trivia: At the beginning of the film Lucy and Ray watch a videotape called 'Murders, Madmen and Psychopaths', with the news report of Johnny Charles Bartlett. The reporter is a genuine TV reporter in NZ (where the film was shot), cast presumably due to her real American accent. (00:11:10)
Trivia: While Centipede is on the skeleton ship, he enters into a room where the Skeleton Captain is laying on a compass, and Centipede murmurs, "A Skelington?" This was probably a reference to a previous Tim Burton character, Jack Skelington in "The Nightmare Before Christmas". The fact that the Captain greatly resembles Jack supports this theory.
Trivia: In this movie, Robin Williams (the voice of the Genie again) seems to spoof some of his real-life roles. I haven't seen all of them, but Mrs. Doubtfire is certainly included.
Trivia: The film as originally intended was longer and more violent, had a non-linear narrative and a much darker ending. The studio forced director Tim Pope to re-edit the film to follow a structure more akin to the first film in order to capitalize on its success and also made him delete a number of key scenes. This lead to he and writer David Goyer disowning the film. The original workprint of the film that represented Pope and Goyer's vision was well over two hours long, as compared to the theatrical cut's anemic 84 minute run-time.
Trivia: It took three hours to apply Eddie Murphy's make-up every day for the entire 70-day shoot.
Trivia: The names of the dragonslayers hired by the Queen are Uhlric, Cavan, Ivor, Tavis, and Trahern, according to the novelization of the film by Charles Edward Pogue. None of the dragonslayers are listed in the credits.
Trivia: Though promotional photos of Victorian dressed Cenobites wearing white powdered wigs were released in various sci-fi magazines to promote this film, the Victorian Cenobites were never shown once the movie was released.
Trivia: Nate Pope (Forest Whitaker) is an Amateur Radio operator with the call sign WB6QLF. QLF is amateur shorthand for "I am sending with my left foot", a reference to someone whose Morse Code sending skill is very bad. This is normally sent as a question "QLF?" meaning "Are you sending with your left foot?" to an operator who is very difficult to understand in Morse.
Trivia: During the "Funky Towel" song, there is a shot of the medicine cabinet and one of the roaches is dancing on a box of boric acid. Boric acid kills roaches.
Trivia: Michael Keaton is seen wearing a Penn State hat. Keaton was born in Pennsylvania and is a long time resident of Pittsburgh, although Penn State is not his alma mater.
Trivia: In the bar fight scene, there is a brief shot of Michael standing over a man with a trash can lid and mop, and then Michael quickly moves away after that. John Travolta's stance in this shot resembles that of artists' depictions of the archangel Michael standing over Satan.
Trivia: Jenifer Lewis is just six years older than Whitney Houston, despite them playing mother and daughter.