Is Hercules actually good?

Hercules sits in the 60.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 60.2% of them.

How does Hercules compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Hercules lands in the 58.9% 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 Hercules's score based on?

226 calibrated reviewers stand behind Hercules's score.

1997

global pct

60.2

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

Hercules

Name: Hercules
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation
Released: 1997

Scored from 226 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

60.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

58.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

79.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

226 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In this Disney animated musical, Hercules is the son of Zeus, stolen as a baby and turned mortal by the villainous Hades, lord of the Underworld. Raised on Earth and discovering his divine origins, the awkward young hero trains under the satyr Philoctetes to become a true hero and earn his way back to Mount Olympus. Along the way he falls for the wry Megara, unaware she is bound to Hades, who is plotting to overthrow Zeus and rule the cosmos.

Released in 1997, Hercules is an action, adventure and animation film.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 226 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 233 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.