Is Death to Smoochy actually good?

Death to Smoochy sits in the 45.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 45.5% of them.

How does Death to Smoochy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Death to Smoochy lands in the 50.5% 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 Death to Smoochy's score based on?

197 calibrated reviewers stand behind Death to Smoochy's score.

2002

global pct

45.5

Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s

Death to Smoochy

Name: Death to Smoochy
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released: 2002

Scored from 197 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

45.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

50.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

36.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

197 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After a corrupt children's TV host is fired in a bribery scandal, the network replaces him with Smoochy the Rhino, a relentlessly wholesome purple performer with no taste for showbiz corruption. As Smoochy's star rises, the ousted host plots revenge while mobsters, crooked charities, and ruthless executives all scheme to control or destroy the new icon.

Released in 2002, Death to Smoochy is a comedy, crime and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,628 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 197 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 207 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Death to Smoochy (2002) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 197
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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