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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

2012 · directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon · 93 min
22,736 feet · Prominence
1,600th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw80

Lifetime worldwide gross $747m, re-releases included; about $1.07bn in 2026 money.

Rank159 of 11,051In 20128 of 319

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics69 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. 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 · 2,059 of 4,039 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, placing it at22,736 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.

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