Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Shark Tale
Scored from 258 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Oscar, a small-time fish working at a whale wash, dreams of escaping his bottom-of-the-reef life. When a great white shark dies in a freak accident near him, Oscar takes credit for the kill and is hailed as a hero, drawing him into a dangerous lie involving a vegetarian shark named Lenny and a mob boss father seeking revenge.
Shark Tale is a 2004 adventure, animation and comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
The calibrated figure is built from 258 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 262 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 106 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Shark Tale 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 258.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
