Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Madagascar
Scored from 389 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Four pampered animals from New York's Central Park Zoo - Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Gloria the hippo, and Melman the giraffe - find themselves shipped off and accidentally stranded on the island of Madagascar. There they meet a colony of party-loving lemurs and must learn to survive in the wild, while Alex grapples with his predatory instincts toward his best friend Marty.
Madagascar is a 2005 adventure, animation and comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 389 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 404 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Madagascar 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 389.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
