Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
The Nutty Professor
Scored from 121 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Sherman Klump, a kind-hearted but morbidly obese university professor, develops an experimental serum that temporarily transforms him into the slim, brash, and confident Buddy Love. As Buddy starts taking over his life and jeopardizing his romance with a fellow professor, Sherman must reckon with self-acceptance and the dangers of his alter ego.
The Nutty Professor (1996) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, romance and science-fiction genres. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 7,754 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 121 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 123 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Nutty Professor 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 121.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
