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Bio-Dome
Overwhelming dislike
Based on 10 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 244 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Kip Koenig
Scott Marcano
Adam Leff, Mitchell Peck, Jason Blumenthal (story)
Directed by: Jason Bloom
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 12, 1996
DVD: April 16, 2002
Running Time: 88 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for crude language, sex-related material and some drug content
Starring Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, Joey Lauren Adams, Teresa Hill, William Atherton, Kylie Minogue, Patricia Hearst, and Dara Tomanovich
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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Thoroughly incoherent... A dreary fizzle. [12 Jan 1996, p.C12]
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
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.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Hal Hinson
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times John Anderson
[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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 244 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Chris G. gave it an8:
I guess the fact that this has been voted as the worst movie prooves that opinions defer. I like Pauly Shore movies, and I rate this as one of his best. I found it quite funny and cool, which is more than most comedies out there. If you like Pauly Shore, Wayne's World, and these type of buddy movies go for it. That's my advice.
Gregory B gave it a10:
One of the funniest and most clever movies ever made.
Philp P. gave it a0:
I don't see how this movie can be enjoyable in the slightest, so anyone who gives this above a 3 must be half retarded.
Cassie F gave it an8:
I actually know nearly every line of this movie and I know other people that do too. If you take the movie for what it is (a 'stoner' comedy')...it is good. It actually has a lot going on...especially with the Faulkner character. It is just a movie about typical 'stoner' people adapting to the cultured life of scientists. They rub off on each other. The main characters evolve during the movie, which is more than can be said for 'Dude, Where's My Car'.
Jeremy S gave it a10:
Bio-Dome is something that takes a truly enlightened person to enjoy. I would say that only people who have converted to Buddhism, and then abandoned it for lack of profundity, and have become at One with the natural fractal flow of the Universal Tao will truly grasp the Eternal and Sacred Truths so humorously extolled in Bio-Dome. Hare Pauly Hare Pauly, Pauly Pauly, Hare Hare!
Neil B gave it a9:
remember watching this with my best mate as a kid, stoned, and laughing so much i nearly peed! watched it somewhere between 10-20 times. maybe watching it again would seem dated and immature, but at the time we thought it was easily the best movie of the year for laughs.
Jamie B gave it a10:
I don't understand people who don't like this movie, then feel it necessary to put people down who do. Was I bored when I watched it? Hell no. It was so retarded that I couldn't stop watching... and laughing. I can completely understand not liking it, but to put everyone down who can find enjoyment in this type of movie? C'mon, grow up A-holes.
