Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Inspector Gadget
Scored from 159 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Security guard John Brown is critically injured in an explosion caused by the villainous Sanford Scolex. A brilliant scientist rebuilds him as Inspector Gadget, a cyborg cop equipped with thousands of high-tech gizmos. With help from his niece Penny and her dog Brain, Gadget sets out to stop Scolex - now calling himself Claw - from building an evil robotic double and taking over the city.
Released in 1999, Inspector Gadget is an action, adventure and comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 159 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 162 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Inspector Gadget 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 159.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
