Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s
Meet the Feebles
Scored from 119 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A behind-the-scenes black comedy about the dysfunctional puppet cast of a sleazy variety show, 'The Feebles Variety Hour.' As the troupe rehearses for their big televised debut, jealousy, addiction, infidelity, and corruption spiral out of control among the animal performers, led by the insecure hippo diva Heidi and her philandering walrus producer Bletch.
Meet the Feebles is a 1989 comedy, fantasy and music film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. 119 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 123 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 991 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Meet the Feebles 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 119.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
