Is Superbad actually good?

Superbad sits in the 62.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 62.2% of them.

How does Superbad compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Superbad lands in the 67.5% 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 Superbad's score based on?

625 calibrated reviewers stand behind Superbad's score.

2007

global pct

62.2

Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s

Superbad

Name: Superbad
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2007

Scored from 625 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

62.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

67.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

84.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

625 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two inseparable high school best friends, anxious Seth and nerdy Evan, scramble to buy alcohol for a party in hopes of finally hooking up with their crushes before graduation separates them. Their plan goes sideways when their hapless friend Fogell, armed with a fake ID under the name 'McLovin,' gets swept up in a chaotic night with two reckless cops.

Superbad is a 2007 comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 62,848 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 625 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 654 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Superbad (2007) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 625
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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