Is The Great Outdoors actually good?

The Great Outdoors sits in the 40.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 40.9% of them.

How does The Great Outdoors compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Great Outdoors lands in the 38.5% 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 The Great Outdoors's score based on?

127 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Great Outdoors's score.

1988

global pct

40.9

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

The Great Outdoors

Name: The Great Outdoors
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Released: 1988

Scored from 127 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

40.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

38.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

28.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

127 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Chicago family man Chet Ripley takes his wife and sons on a peaceful lakeside vacation in Wisconsin, only to have his trip hijacked by the unexpected arrival of his brash, status-obsessed brother-in-law Roman and his family. What follows is a week of escalating rivalry, slapstick mishaps with bears and bats, and long-buried family tensions boiling over in the north woods.

Released in 1988, The Great Outdoors is an adventure and comedy film.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 127 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 133 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Great Outdoors (1988) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 127
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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