During the "Candy Man" number, a moment is included where candy store owner Bill flips open a pass-through on the counter hitting a young girl in the chin with sound effects included. This is a direct reference to a now famous mistake during the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) where the same incident takes place in which one of the child actors is mistakenly hit under the chin in the same manner.
This movie is dedicated to Gene Wilder who played Willy Wonka in the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He died a year before this video was released.
In the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), the lick-able wallpaper is in a corridor on the way to the inventing room, but in this one it is in the inventing room itself. The idea that it is sticky is a new element.
The voice cast performs the roles of the characters in accents faithful to the nationality of their live action counterparts from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).