Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
The Cat Returns
Scored from 118 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After saving a mysterious cat from being hit by a truck, a shy schoolgirl named Haru is whisked away to the Cat Kingdom, where the grateful Cat King insists she marry his son, Prince Lune. As she begins transforming into a cat herself, Haru seeks help from the dapper Baron and his companions to escape and rediscover her own confidence.
The Cat Returns is a 2002 adventure, animation and comedy film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,453 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 118 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 121 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 The Cat Returns 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 118.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
