Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
Toy Story
Scored from 642 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
The first fully computer-animated feature, directed by John Lasseter for Pixar and Disney. In the bedroom of a boy named Andy the toys come to life whenever people leave, and the pull-string cowboy Woody is the unchallenged favourite until a birthday delivers Buzz Lightyear, a space-ranger action figure who does not know he is a toy. Woody's jealousy over his lost status leads to a scuffle that strands both of them outside the house, near the home of Sid, a neighbour who dismembers toys for entertainment. With Andy's family days away from moving, the two rivals must cooperate to get back. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen voice the leads.
Released in 1995, Toy Story is an adventure, animation and comedy film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is G. It runs 1h 21m.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 29,208 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 642 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 683 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Toy Story 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 642.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
