Trivia: Director Taika Waititi has a cameo as the local church minister who delivers the sermon at the funeral.
Trivia: The "Demonic Balloons" that attack the Ghostbusters are almost direct re-creations of real Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons from the 1930's. The filmmakers decided to use the real designs in order to represent the "spirits" of New York's history... and also because they were quite eerie and unsettling.
Trivia: Husband crab Bill is John Ratzenberger, who is in all Pixar films.
Trivia: Director John Hamburg was James Franco's professor when Franco was attending the graduate film-making program at New York University.
Trivia: Revealed in behind-the-scenes info, Chef was originally going to have a song called "Bringing Back Happy," explaining to the Trolls about her depressing years of unsuccessful hunts for them and how she would "bring back happy" by cooking them. However, this idea had to be scrapped due to timing issues.
Trivia: At the Oscar ceremony in 2017, the film was accidentally named Best Picture, instead of true winner Moonlight, when presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were accidentally handed the wrong envelope. Such a gaffe had never occurred in the Oscars' history before.
Trivia: Stick around for hilarious outtakes after the credits roll with Melissa McCarthy and Kirsten Bell.
Trivia: Paul Reubens revealed that, in addition to old makeup tricks, digital effects were used to de-age him for the film, to make him look more like he did in the previous films. Reubens remarked that when he was told how expensive the de-aging effects were during post-production, he realised it would have actually been significantly cheaper for him to have just gotten extensive plastic surgery to make himself look younger before filming.
Trivia: The film was originally written to be an introspective, existential dramedy geared towards adults about a troubled man who is turned into a cat. As originally planned, the cat also wouldn't speak/the audience wouldn't hear his thoughts. However, after a change in leadership at the studio, the film was rewritten into a more generic family movie.
Trivia: Jason Mewes was originally set to play the "Brahtzies", but had to drop out due to finding the makeup required for the roles far too claustrophobic.
Trivia: The president of Venezuela says, "Have you seen the autotune on YouTube?" The video is never shown, however if you wait until the end credits the autotune plays as a credits song.
Trivia: Although Jennifer Saunders and Julia Sawalha play mother and daughter, Saunders is only ten years older than Sawalha.
Trivia: "Keeping Up with the Joneses" was originally meant to be a sequel to the film "Mr. And Mrs. Smith," with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie both intended to return. However, Pitt and Jolie were dissatisfied with the screenplay and dropped out. Eventually, all connections to that film were dropped and the movie was retooled to be a stand-alone film.