The film does not credit the original "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" story, nor its author E. T. A. Hoffmann.
This is the only version of "The Nutcracker" with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Elle Fanning would later voice a character learning ballet to obtain the lead role in The Nutcracker in Leap! (2016).
Uncle Albert was hinted throughout the movie to be famous scientist Albert Einstein through references to relativity and even E=mc^2 appearing at one point. This would match up because Albert Einstein was alive at the time of the movie and lived in Germany, very close to Austria.
During the scene where Mary first meets Sticks, Tinker, and Gielgud, when they are all downstairs of the dollhouse and Sticks appears to be spinning a drumstick with his fingers, he actually is not spinning it. He is just turning his hand so that it looks like the drumstick is spinning.