- Accidental Innuendo: Eduord keeping his hand in his pants is supposed to show that he lost access to his hand but since that scene was cut, it just looks like he is touching his junk throughout the film.note
- Bile Fascination: Thanks in part to Saberspark reviewing the movie, Let's Go Ape has achieved this status. It's not considered a good movie and the bizarre, off-putting nature of the apes is considered a huge turn-off, in addition to the film being seen as having a lot of pacing problems, awful dialogue, and plot holes thanks to the English version removing major scenes. But it's precisely because of these things that people want to see the film, because they want to see for themselves just how creepy and repelling the movie really is.
- Fan-Preferred Cut Content: While Let's Go Ape will not be on anyone's top ten list of greatest animated movies (much less top twenty or even thirty) anytime soon, the English version of the movie did cut out several scenes that viewers and critics would have preferred to remain in the movie, including how Édouard lost the use of his hand, the death of his and Vania's mother, and Vania working with the witch. Even briefly putting aside the widely disliked "Uncanny Valley" nature of the movie, the general feeling is that if those scenes have been kept, the movie would have had a much more coherent and relatable plot.
- They Copied It, So It Sucks!: One of the major criticisms of the movie, aside from the apes looking unsettling, is that it's far too derivative of past animated films and shows, ripping off works such as The Lion King (1994), The Croods, and Avatar: The Last Airbender, like how the King of the Simians saved his son Édouard and died from a rampaging hoard of herd animals similar to Mufasa saving Simba or all of the animals in the films being Mix-and-Match Critters like in Avatar.
- Unintentional Uncanny Valley: How "unintentional" this case is can be debated, as the story is meant to be set in a prehistoric time that shows the apes' evolutionary start in becoming humanity and it may have been intentional for them to have some proto-human features as they're in a transitional phase, going from tree dwellers to more complex tribes who can migrate, create music, and discover fire. But being an animated film that uses motion capture, the apes can still look creepy and unsettling at the end of the day even if the human-like faces were intentional. As this review points out
, they have "weirdly humanoid figures" and "recognizably human faces".
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