Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Scored from 365 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Ricky Bobby is a hotshot NASCAR driver who lives by his father's mantra, 'If you ain't first, you're last.' When flamboyant French Formula One champion Jean Girard arrives on the circuit and dethrones him, Ricky loses his nerve, his ride, and his glamorous life, forcing him to rebuild from scratch with the help of his estranged dad and lifelong best friend Cal Naughton Jr.
Released in 2006, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a comedy and sport film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 28,796 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 365 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 379 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 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 365.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
