Is Bananas actually good?

Bananas sits in the 59.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 59.6% of them.

How does Bananas compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Bananas lands in the 50.7% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Bananas's score based on?

119 calibrated reviewers stand behind Bananas's score.

1971

global pct

59.6

Film · 1971 · Films · 1970s

Bananas

Name: Bananas
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1971

Scored from 119 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

59.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

50.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

75.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

119 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A neurotic New York products tester, dumped by his activist girlfriend for being insufficiently committed to a cause, travels to the small Latin American country of San Marcos. Through a series of bumbling mishaps he gets swept up in the local revolution and unexpectedly ends up as the country's bearded leader, then has to deal with the consequences back home.

Bananas (1971) is a film IMDb files under the comedy genre. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 119 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 122 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 661 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Bananas (1971) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 119
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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