Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Kung Fu Panda
Scored from 480 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Po, a clumsy panda noodle-shop worker, is unexpectedly chosen as the legendary Dragon Warrior to defend the Valley of Peace from the escaped villain Tai Lung. With little martial arts training but boundless enthusiasm, Po must train under the reluctant Master Shifu and prove himself worthy to the Furious Five warriors.
Released in 2008, Kung Fu Panda is an animation, action and comedy film. Its certificate is PG. Mark Osborne and John Stevenson directed it, with Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Angelina Jolie in the cast. It runs 1h 32m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 480 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 494 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 24,839 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Kung Fu Panda 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 480.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
