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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

2012 · directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon · 93 min
23,598 feet · Prominence
966th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw80

$747m worldwide in 2012 — $1.07bn in today's money.

As released$747mIn 2026 money$1.07bnRank154 of 8,589In 20128 of 244

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise69

Critics 69, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 69.

Critics69 → 35Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy35

Judged directly: Afro Circus meme outlives the film.

Verdict35 of 100IMDb6.8 from 215kWikipedia25k views a monthAge14 years

Scored beside it · 1,464 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 80 praise 69 legacy 35averages 61, which places it at23,598 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Frances McDormand21,599 ft