Is Happy Gilmore actually good?

Happy Gilmore sits in the 60.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 60.7% of them.

How does Happy Gilmore compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Happy Gilmore lands in the 59.4% 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 Happy Gilmore's score based on?

346 calibrated reviewers stand behind Happy Gilmore's score.

1996

global pct

60.7

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Happy Gilmore

Name: Happy Gilmore
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Released: 1996

Scored from 346 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

60.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

59.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

81.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

346 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A hot-tempered failed hockey player discovers he can drive a golf ball farther than anyone alive and reluctantly joins the PGA Tour to win enough prize money to save his grandmother's house from foreclosure. His brash, blue-collar antics clash with the sport's stuffy establishment, especially a smug rival who will do anything to stop him.

Released in 1996, Happy Gilmore is a comedy and sport film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. 346 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 360 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 28,698 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Happy Gilmore (1996) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 346
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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