Is Stripes actually good?

Stripes sits in the 46.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 46.1% of them.

How does Stripes compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Stripes lands in the 43.9% 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 Stripes's score based on?

168 calibrated reviewers stand behind Stripes's score.

1981

global pct

46.1

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

Stripes

Name: Stripes
Genre: Comedy, War
Released: 1981

Scored from 168 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

46.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

43.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

38.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

168 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A pair of aimless friends, fed up with their dead-end lives, impulsively enlist in the U.S. Army expecting an easy ride. Boot camp under a no-nonsense drill sergeant proves anything but, and their misfit platoon stumbles into an unauthorized mission across the Iron Curtain involving a high-tech urban assault vehicle.

Stripes is a 1981 comedy and war film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

168 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 169 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,848 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.