Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Death to Smoochy
Scored from 197 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
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 rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, 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.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Death to Smoochy lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 197.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
