the score includes musical references to the songs and score from the first film written by the sherman brothers: these songs include "a spoonful of sugar", "the perfect nanny", "feed the birds" and "let's go fly a kite". richard m. sherman served as music consultant, with shaiman stating that "if he had something that he thought should have been different or changed, he would have said so. but lo and behold, he didn’t. he was loving what he was hearing, and he really loves the new movie".