Is National Lampoon's Animal House actually good?

National Lampoon's Animal House sits in the 75.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 75.1% of them.

How does National Lampoon's Animal House compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, National Lampoon's Animal House lands in the 68.9% 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 National Lampoon's Animal House's score based on?

265 calibrated reviewers stand behind National Lampoon's Animal House's score.

1978

global pct

75.1

Film · 1978 · Films · 1970s

National Lampoon's Animal House

Name: National Lampoon's Animal House
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1978

Scored from 265 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

75.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

68.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

94.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

265 calibrated reviewers

Summary

At 1962 Faner College, the rowdy misfits of Delta Tau Chi fraternity clash with the uptight Dean Wormer and the snobbish Omega house. As Wormer plots to expel them, the Deltas respond with toga parties, road trips, and escalating pranks, culminating in an outrageous assault on the school's homecoming parade.

Released in 1978, National Lampoon's Animal House is a comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 265 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 274 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 265
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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