Hell, even over on the unofficial Pixar fan site, Pixar Planet, a lot of people put HTTYD as one of their favorite animated films, putting it up with the top third or so of Pixar films. If 'Toy Story 3' had not been a farewell to a beloved and iconic series, which certainly gave it a boost, it is not at all clear that would have won the Oscar over HTTYD. 'Toy Story 3' dominated, but 'How to Train Your Dragon' gave it a pretty good challenge. People seems to consider that a fluke, and then subsequent Pixar movies again were rated quite a bit higher than their user ratings would predict.Ģ010 was the first half of a turning point, although it might not appear that way because Pixar did great in 2010. It scored with the critics just a little bit higher than a non-Pixar movie would have, based on user ratings. There are only three Pixar movies that do not show this effect. I'm not sure yet if the critics are unconsciously giving a boost to Pixar, or a ding to non-Pixar when it comes to American animation. Movies that users, such as Rotten Tomatoes users or Amazon users, rank the same or nearly the same but one is Pixar and one is not will usually have the Pixar one rank quite a bit higher on rankings from critics. This same pattern repeats itself with various other rankings. Can you guess which movies in that table are Pixar and which are not? It's pretty easy-the two that are about 20 points lower on Metacritic than where you would expect them to be based on their IMDB scores are the non-Pixar movies ('How to Train Your Dragon' is the 8.2/74, and 'Wreck-it Ralph' is the 8.1/73).

These are the IMDB and Metacritic scores for the top 10 Pixar/Disney/DreamWorks animated moves (for Disney, I've only included 'Tangled' and 'Wreck-It' in my list.I've not gotten around to entering data for older stuff Disney yet). I've not gotten far, but I do have some data that I think might explain this. I'm initially concentrating on animated movies.

I've just started a little hobby project to use machine learning and data analysis techniques to figure out what movies I should seek out next.

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