Is Spaceballs actually good?

Spaceballs sits in the 66.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 66.3% of them.

How does Spaceballs compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Spaceballs lands in the 63.5% 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 Spaceballs's score based on?

310 calibrated reviewers stand behind Spaceballs's score.

1987

global pct

66.3

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

Spaceballs

Name: Spaceballs
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Released: 1987

Scored from 310 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

66.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

63.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

88.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

310 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In a galaxy far, far away, the evil Spaceballs, led by the bumbling Dark Helmet and President Skroob, scheme to steal the planet Druidia's air supply by kidnapping Princess Vespa. Mercenary Lone Starr and his half-man, half-dog sidekick Barf take the job to rescue her, aided by the wise Yogurt and the mystical power of the Schwartz. A relentless spoof of Star Wars and other sci-fi blockbusters.

Spaceballs is a 1987 adventure, comedy and science-fiction film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

310 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 323 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 17,186 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.