Metacritic Film

Bio-Dome

Starring Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, Joey Lauren Adams, Teresa Hill, William Atherton, Kylie Minogue, Patricia Hearst, and Dara Tomanovich

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude language, sex-related material and some drug content

MGM
Comedy
88 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters January 12, 1996

Five brave scientists are forced to face life forms more perplexing, more terrifying, more annoying than anything they've ever encountered: Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin. (MGM)

WRITTEN BY
Kip Koenig
Scott Marcano
Adam Leff, Mitchell Peck, Jason Blumenthal (story)

DIRECTED BY
Jason Bloom

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

1 / 100

Critic Reviews

42 Entertainment Weekly Ethan Smith
Even with the low expectations any reasonable viewer brings to a Shore flick, this rates only stupid-plus. The bongs-and-pajamas set, though, should be riveted.
20 TV Guide Staff (Non Credited)
A potentially amusing comic premise -- dropping a pair of anarchic stoners into the spaced-out, sanctimonious world of New Age bio-dome enthusiasts -- gets submerged in a shower of witless gags and the feeble one-joke persona of MTV celebrity Pauly Shore.
0 The New York Times
Thoroughly incoherent... A dreary fizzle. [12 Jan 1996, p.C12]
0 San Francisco Chronicle
Shore possesses only two talents -- his ability to assume yoga-like positions and fondle his own behind, and his mystifying knack for getting starring roles in bad movies.
0 Christian Science Monitor
Pauly Shore is less a comedian than a class clown, and his dim-witted mugging makes Jim Carrey's antics seem creative triumphs by comparison. Vapid, vulgar, and more to the point, not funny.
0 Washington Post
A nonstop moronathon... Bio-Dome offers a pants-load of poop and masturbation jokes, deviant innuendo and simian sight gags destined to gross out and offend just about everyone.
0 San Francisco Examiner Craig Marine
This film may set an all-time record for shortest time between the big screen and your local video store.
0 Variety Leonard Klady
Neither the script nor direction lives up to the concept, and the picture evolves into a "Bio"-degradable hash rather than a zany sendup of potent issues and serious intents gone awry.
0 Los Angeles Times
[Shore] seems convinced that the antics of his retarded persona amount to some manner of postmodernist anti-comedy and this makes the resultant boredom seem all the more pathetic.
0 The New Yorker Bruce Diones
The sheer ineptitude of the movie is supposed to be funny, but there's no lunacy behind it: Shore and his writers are like comedians on Prozac, smiling through the fart jokes without a hint of desperation.

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