Is Meatballs actually good?

Meatballs sits in the 42.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 42.6% of them.

How does Meatballs compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Meatballs lands in the 34.8% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Meatballs's score based on?

100 calibrated reviewers stand behind Meatballs's score.

1979

global pct

42.6

Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s

Meatballs

Name: Meatballs
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1979

Scored from 100 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

42.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

34.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

32.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

100 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1979, Meatballs is a comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 619 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. 100 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 101 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Meatballs (1979) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 100
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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