Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
Up
Scored from 854 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old retired balloon salesman rattling around the house he shared with his late wife, Ellie, whose plan to move to Paradise Falls in South America the two of them never carried out. Ordered to give up the house for a retirement home, Carl ties thousands of helium balloons to it and floats away, discovering too late that Russell, an eight-year-old Wilderness Explorer short one merit badge, is out on the porch. Near the falls they take up with a rare giant bird, a dog whose collar turns his thoughts into speech, and Carl's boyhood hero, the explorer Charles Muntz. Pete Docter directed the computer-animated Pixar adventure.
Released in 2009, Up is an adventure, animation and comedy film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG. It runs 1h 36m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 29,116 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 854 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 894 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 Up 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 854.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
