Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Monsters, Inc.
Scored from 546 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Monsters, Inc. is a Pixar computer-animated comedy set in Monstropolis, a city powered by the screams of human children. At the factory of the title, star scarer James P. "Sulley" Sullivan and his one-eyed assistant Mike Wazowski step through closet doors into kids' bedrooms to harvest that energy, in an industry facing shortages because children are harder to frighten than they used to be. Monsters are certain that human contact is toxic, so when a toddler Sulley nicknames Boo slips back through her door after him, the two have to hide her and get her home again. Sulley's rival scarer Randall Boggs and the company's chairman have their own reasons for wanting the girl found first.
Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 animation, comedy and family film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy. It stars Billy Crystal, John Goodman and Steve Buscemi. It is rated G. The runtime is 92 minutes. It was directed by Pete Docter. It was made in the United States.
546 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 590 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 33,410 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 Monsters, Inc. 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 546.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
