Is Shrek actually good?

Shrek sits in the 86.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 86.1% of them.

How does Shrek compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Shrek lands in the 90.9% 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 Shrek's score based on?

908 calibrated reviewers stand behind Shrek's score.

2001

global pct

86.1

Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s

Shrek

Name: Shrek
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 2001
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow

Scored from 908 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

86.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

98.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

908 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A cynical ogre named Shrek has his peaceful swamp invaded when fairy tale creatures are deposited there by an evil lord. To reclaim his solitude, Shrek agrees to rescue a princess from a tower, but discovers that nothing is quite as it seems.

Shrek is a 2001 animation, comedy and fantasy film directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG. It runs 1h 30m. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 42,781 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 908 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 960 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.

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Is Shrek (2001) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 908
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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