Is Heavy Metal actually good?

Heavy Metal sits in the 53.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 53.9% of them.

How does Heavy Metal compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Heavy Metal lands in the 51.1% 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 Heavy Metal's score based on?

174 calibrated reviewers stand behind Heavy Metal's score.

1981

global pct

53.9

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

Heavy Metal

Name: Heavy Metal
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
Released: 1981

Scored from 174 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

53.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

51.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

63.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

174 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An animated science-fiction anthology framed by the Loc-Nar, a glowing green orb of pure evil that recounts its corrupting influence across time and space. Segments span a hard-boiled cabbie in a future New York, a nerd transported to a barbarian world, a stranded bomber crew, a corrupt alien trial, and a sword-wielding warrior woman who confronts the orb itself, all set to a hard rock soundtrack.

Heavy Metal (1981) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, animation and fantasy genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 174 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 177 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 345 of whom clear the calibration test.