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** Then there's the cannibalistic Pelegosto savages who worship Jack as a god and want to free him from his mortal body by eating him. The chief of the Carib Indian community had some very nasty things to say to Disney over it. (Ironically, if the Carib people ever did practice cannibalism, it was more or less the ritual kind of the film -- or so says [[That Other Wiki]].)
** And then there's the overall theme, especially in the sequels, that piracy is synonymous with liberty. Liberty meaning I can rape, kill, pillage and nobody should stop me at all!
*** It's understandable that it comes across that way because these movies are utterly fantastical in pretty much every other respect, but the reason this part is in there is because it ''is'' historically accurate. A lot of the people who were once considered "pirates" simply didn't agree with overly restrictive trade companies and government-cronyist monopolies and struck out to do business on their own. Not very many of them were criminals at all.
* The original ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'': The crew of astronauts are three men and one woman and it is clearly stated that she was to be the Eve on the new planet. So, if everything had gone according to plan, the offspring of the astronauts would have to reproduce with their half-siblings. And considering the following generations, inbreeding would cause a lack of genetic diversity. ({{spoiler|From a genetic standpoint, it's probably a good thing they ended up back on Earth.}})
** Also, for a film series that is meant partially as an allegory on racism, its portrayal of the various ape species [[Broken Aesop|doesn't exactly fit together with its message.]] Chimpanzees are calm, compassionate and rational and are portrayed as the heroes who are opposed by the dogmatic, backwards-thinking Orangutans and the aggressive, brutish Gorillas. In ''Escape from Planet of the Apes'', Zira, the chimpanzee scientist, calls the gorillas "a bunch of militaristic nincompoops", and we're not supposed to find anything unsound about that.
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