Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Kenny
Scored from 62 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Shot as a mock documentary, Clayton Jacobson's Australian comedy follows Kenny Smyth (Shane Jacobson), a good-natured plumber who delivers, services and cleans portable toilets for the Melbourne rental firm Splashdown. Kenny takes evident pride in a trade everyone else finds repellent, wrangling crowds at events such as the Melbourne Cup while absorbing contempt from his gruff father, his ex-wife and strangers who won't shake his hand. His steadiest attachment is to his young son Jesse, whom he sees far too rarely. When the company sends him to a waste-management convention in Nashville, Tennessee, the trip pushes him to weigh what his work and his family are actually worth to him.
Kenny is a 2006 comedy film. It was made in Australia. The runtime is 87 minutes.
Only 62 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 64 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 869 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Kenny 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 62.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
