Is Shallow Hal actually good?

Shallow Hal sits in the 34.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 34.2% of them.

How does Shallow Hal compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Shallow Hal lands in the 37.8% 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 Shallow Hal's score based on?

306 calibrated reviewers stand behind Shallow Hal's score.

2001

global pct

34.2

Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s

Shallow Hal

Name: Shallow Hal
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Released: 2001

Scored from 306 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

34.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

37.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

15.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

306 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A shallow man who judges women solely by their looks is hypnotized by a self-help guru to see only inner beauty. He falls for a kind-hearted woman, perceiving her as stunning while everyone else sees her very differently, forcing him to confront what he truly values when the spell is broken.

Shallow Hal is a 2001 comedy, drama and fantasy film. Its comedy subtype is Romcom.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 11,498 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 306 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 314 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.