Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Scored from 200 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Still desperate to return home to New York, Alex the lion and his friends track Skipper and the penguins to Monte Carlo, where a chaotic incident draws the attention of a relentless animal-control captain. To evade her across Europe, the gang joins a struggling traveling circus and tries to help its performers rediscover their spark while plotting a way back to America.
Released in 2012, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted is an adventure, animation and comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 200 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 201 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 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 200.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
