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Wednesday, September 24th, 2025

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Suspicious ratings

I had never heard of this movie before and I haven't seen it but I was looking through Christopher Lloyd's credits and I found The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure with a weighted mean rating of 1.7 and unweighted 8.3 and there's no way a gap that big would happen naturally. Was the page flooded with a bunch of fake ten star reviews?

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Hi winstonsmithamm- Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are aware that there are people who may vote for the sole purpose of trying to inflate/deflate the rating for a movie. We have several safeguards in place to automatically detect and defeat this type of ballot stuffing: even though we count and display all unaltered votes in the rating breakdown, we apply several countermeasures against all attempts to skew the rating for the weighted rating you see displayed on the site. We will review the title in question to ensure that the weighted average is displaying as intended. For more information on our abuse detection methods, or details about IMDb ratings and weighted averages, please refer to our Ratings FAQ: https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/ratings-faq/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV Cheers!