Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Scored from 706 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Moments before Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, ordinary Englishman Arthur Dent is whisked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the titular intergalactic guidebook. Arthur stumbles through a bewildering cosmos alongside the two-headed galactic president Zaphod Beeblebrox, fellow human Trillian, and a chronically depressed robot named Marvin, all while searching for the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 adventure, comedy and science-fiction film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
The calibrated figure is built from 706 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 734 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 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 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 706.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
