Is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou actually good?

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou sits in the 42.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 42.8% of them.

How does The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou lands in the 47.2% 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 Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou's score based on?

483 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou's score.

2004

global pct

42.8

Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Name: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Released: 2004

Scored from 483 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

42.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

47.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

28.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

483 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Eccentric oceanographer Steve Zissou assembles a ragtag crew aboard the Belafonte to hunt down the mysterious jaguar shark that killed his partner. Along the way he contends with a man who may be his long-lost son, a pregnant journalist, dwindling funding, and pirates, all while questioning his fading legacy as an undersea documentarian.

Released in 2004, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is an action, adventure and comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 483 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 498 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 483
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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