History Film / MaryPoppinsReturns

** This is not the first film featuring Creator/David Warner where the climax is centred on [[Film/TheThirtyNineSteps stopping Big Ben from ticking and resulting in the famous clock being turned back in time a little]].

** In one scene, Georgie is seen flying a kite, with Jack, but it gets stuck on something. The two pull it in, to find that it's Mary Poppins holding the kite, similar to chapter one of ''Mary Poppins Comes Back'' (and the ''Mary Poppins'' stage musical).

** The original film was going to have an underwater sequence with the song "The Beautiful Briny," which was later repurposed for ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks''. "Can You Imagine That" finally gives Mary her underwater musical number.

** "The Place Where Lost Things Go" has a line about Mary Poppins' dish and spoon "playing hide and seek just behind the moon." Mary Poppins takes the Banks children on a visit to the moon in her last book, ''Mary Poppins and the House Next Door'', where the Man in the Moon -- another of Mary Poppins' uncles -- hoards every physical item lost on Earth.

* ActorAllusion: Even with the need for groceries slipping his mind, Michael makes sure there's plenty of marmalade. His actor, Creator/BenWhishaw, portrayed the titular character in ''Film/{{Paddington}}'', where his TrademarkFavoriteFood is marmalade.

-->'''Passerby''': Excuse me, do you know where 19 Cherry Tree Lane is?
-->'''Jane''': Oh, it's two doors down!
-->'''Passerby''': Many thanks. Sincerely.

* ExactWords: Mary Poppins, Jack, and the kids along with the other leeries attempt to turn back time in the film's climax. [[spoiler: Jack climbs up to darken the clock, while Mary Poppins sets Big Ben back five minutes, literally "turning back time."]]

-->[Dolphin pops out of the water]
-->'''Mary''': [Without missing a beat] No, not yet!

* {{Leitmotif}}: "Can You Imagine That?" is this for Mary Poppins herself.

--> [[spoiler: '''Dawes''': A little bird told me -- ''winks at Mary Poppins' umbrella, who winks back'' -- that you’ve been trying to cheat the Banks family out of their shares in Fidelity Fiduciary.]]
--> '''Jack''': That he has, we heard him.
--> [[spoiler: '''Dawes''': I also hear you've been telling the whole of London I've gone loony. The only loony thing I did was trust you to look after this bank!]]
--> '''Wilkins''': [[spoiler: But I've nearly doubled the profits of this bank!]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Dawes''': By wringing it out of our customer's pockets! Their trust in us built this bank and you've squandered every last bit of that goodwill. So Willie, I'm back. And you're out!]]

* RemakeCameo: Creator/DickVanDyke, who played Bert and Mr. Dawes Sr. in the original film, plays a minor role as Mr. Dawes Jr. in this film. Also, Karen Dotrice, the original Jane Banks, is the woman in the fur coat who takes a flyer from Jane.

* SoMuchForStealth: Oh, Georgie...

* ButNowIMustGo: Mary Poppins once again takes her leave without saying goodbye. This time it’s when the door of the house opens.

* ShoutOut: During ''Can You Imagine That'', Mary mentions pirates who play around all day and [[Franchise/PeterPan never grow up]].
* SignificantAnagram: Once again, Dick Van Dyke is credited as Nackvid Keyd, with the letters rearranging to form the actual name shortly after.

* ContrivedCoincidence: It's a very good thing that the picture Georgie used to patch the kite with was [[spoiler:the Certificate of Shares. Then again, perhaps Mary Poppins knew that and deliberately had the papers stacked that way so Georgei would pick it up...]]

** Mary's guttural Cockney accent while singing "The Cover Is Not the Book" recalls how Julie Andrews was the original Eliza Doolittle in ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', and only did the first ''Mary Poppins'' film because the studio wouldn't let her repeat that role on film.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The musical number Mary and Jack perform at the Music Hall, The Cover is Not the Book, has a lot of this. It's a bawdy-sounding cabaret-type number that starts with Mary mentioning her Uncle Gutenberg was "on the sauce", then a story about a tree lady who got hit on by a tree man and "now there's seedlings everywhere!", then a story about a lady who lived alone on an island and ran around naked, and then a story about a stupid king whose queen cut off scholar's heads and put them on pikes when they couldn't teach him anything.

** "The Cover Is Not The Book" takes inspiration from two chapters of ''Mary Poppins Comes Back'', "Robertson Ay's Story" and "Nellie-Rubina". Mary Poppins and Jack also perform this song in front of books bearing the titles of chapters from across the series' first four[[note]]including "The Day Out" and "The Marble Boy", which respectively inspired the movie and stage versions of "Jolly Holiday", and "The Cat That Looked at A King", the chapter of ''Mary Poppins Opens the Door'' that became the short included with almost all ''Mary Poppins'' home media releases since the 2004 40th Anniversary Edition DVD.[[/note]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
[[spoiler: Had Michael not been so cavalier with his father's papers -- like using the back of something as important as his stock certificate as drawing paper and then absent-mindedly mixing it up with other drawings, the climax of the film could've been avoided.]]

* NonNudeBathing: A ZigZaggingTrope when Mary gives the Banks children a bath. The children enter the bath in their underwear, leading into a FantasySequence in which they are each wearing an OldTimeyBathingSuit. When the bath ends, we return to the real world and the kids are now wrapped in {{Modesty Towel}}s, apparently indicating that they were
"really" naked for the duration of the fantasy scene. But why then did they enter the bathtub in their underwear, other than, of course, Disney not wanting to show them naked?

** Among the citizens that Wilkins and the lawyers have for foreclosure are Mr. Trimlet (a shop-owner in Mary Poppins Opens the Door) and Mrs. Corry, the latter of whom was evicted.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Had Michael not been so cavalier with his father's papers -- like using the back of something as important as his stock certificate as drawing paper and then absent-mindedly mixing it up with other drawings, the climax of the film could've been avoided.]]

** The only one in London that questions Big Ben is Admiral Boom; in the first movie, Bert said, "The whole world takes its time from Greenwich. Greenwich, it's said, takes its time from Admiral Boom." Turns out the Admiral was right all along.

** Lampshaded InUniverse with Topsy, whose accent is ambiguously Eastern European, but never revealed what part. Mary Poppins says, "We have no idea."

Creator/EmilyBlunt landed the eponymous role in February 2016. The cast includes Creator/MerylStreep as Mary's cousin Topsy, Creator/ColinFirth as William Weatherall Wilkins, Creator/LinManuelMiranda as Jack, Creator/EmilyMortimer as Jane Banks, Creator/BenWhishaw as Michael Banks, Creator/JulieWalters as Ellen, Creator/DavidWarner as Admiral Boom, and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Frye/Weasel. Creator/DickVanDyke plays Mr. Dawes Jr., and Creator/AngelaLansbury cameos as "the Balloon Lady".