Is The Little Mermaid actually good?

The Little Mermaid sits in the 40.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 40.3% of them.

How does The Little Mermaid compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, The Little Mermaid lands in the 50.0% 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 Little Mermaid's score based on?

704 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Little Mermaid's score.

2023

global pct

40.3

Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s

The Little Mermaid

Name: The Little Mermaid
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Released: 2023

Scored from 704 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

40.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

50.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

23.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

704 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young mermaid princess named Ariel, fascinated by the human world, makes a dangerous bargain with the sea witch Ursula to trade her voice for legs so she can pursue Prince Eric on land. This live-action remake of the 1989 animated Disney film stars Halle Bailey as Ariel and features new songs alongside the classic score.

Released in 2023, The Little Mermaid is an adventure, family and fantasy film.

704 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 770 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,025 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them.

Is The Little Mermaid (2023) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 704
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2020s

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