Is We Bought a Zoo actually good?

We Bought a Zoo sits in the 61.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 61.1% of them.

How does We Bought a Zoo compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, We Bought a Zoo lands in the 67.9% 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 We Bought a Zoo's score based on?

213 calibrated reviewers stand behind We Bought a Zoo's score.

2011

global pct

61.1

Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s

We Bought a Zoo

Name: We Bought a Zoo
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Released: 2011

Scored from 213 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

61.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

67.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

80.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

213 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A widowed father, struggling to move on after his wife's death, makes an impulsive decision to buy a rundown rural house that comes with a dilapidated zoo. With help from his two children and the dedicated zoo staff, he works to restore the property and reopen it to the public, while slowly rebuilding his family's emotional life.

Released in 2011, We Bought a Zoo is a comedy, drama and family film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,927 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 213 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 218 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is We Bought a Zoo (2011) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 213
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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