Is Howard the Duck actually good?

Howard the Duck sits in the 12.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 12.4% of them.

How does Howard the Duck compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Howard the Duck lands in the 11.8% 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 Howard the Duck's score based on?

274 calibrated reviewers stand behind Howard the Duck's score.

1986

global pct

12.4

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

Howard the Duck

Name: Howard the Duck
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Released: 1986

Scored from 274 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

12.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

11.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

1.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

274 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A wisecracking alien duck from a parallel world is accidentally pulled to Cleveland by a misfired laser experiment. He befriends an aspiring rock singer and a nerdy scientist, and together they must stop a malevolent cosmic entity that arrived through the same beam from taking over Earth.

Released in 1986, Howard the Duck is an action, adventure and comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,369 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 274 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 285 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Howard the Duck (1986) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 274
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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