Is The Waterboy actually good?

The Waterboy sits in the 27.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 27.6% of them.

How does The Waterboy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Waterboy lands in the 25.4% 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 Waterboy's score based on?

245 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Waterboy's score.

1998

global pct

27.6

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

The Waterboy

Name: The Waterboy
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Released: 1998

Scored from 245 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

27.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

25.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

10.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

245 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Bobby Boucher, a sheltered, socially awkward waterboy with a domineering mother, discovers he can channel a lifetime of pent-up rage into ferocious tackling. A struggling college football coach recruits him as a secret-weapon linebacker, and Bobby must balance newfound gridiron stardom with his mother's disapproval, a budding romance, and a rivalry against the team that once mocked him.

Released in 1998, The Waterboy is a comedy and sport film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 245 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 249 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.