Is Police Academy actually good?

Police Academy sits in the 52.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 52.7% of them.

How does Police Academy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Police Academy lands in the 50.3% 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 Police Academy's score based on?

180 calibrated reviewers stand behind Police Academy's score.

1984

global pct

52.7

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Police Academy

Name: Police Academy
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1984

Scored from 180 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

52.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

50.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

59.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

180 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When a new mayor opens the police academy to all recruits regardless of qualifications, a chaotic group of misfits enrolls, including a wisecracking troublemaker forced into training as an alternative to jail. Despite the efforts of a hostile commanding officer to wash them out, the oddball cadets bumble their way through basic training.

Released in 1984, Police Academy is a comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,970 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. 180 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 186 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Police Academy (1984) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 180
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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