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Bio-Dome
MGM


6.1

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MPAA 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)

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Kip Koenig Scott Marcano Adam Leff, Mitchell Peck, Jason Blumenthal (story)
DIRECTED BY:	Jason Bloom
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: April 16, 2002 Video: March 24, 1998 Theatrical: January 12, 1996
RUNNING TIME:	88 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 206 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jordan S. gave it a10:
fantastic movie. I think it will go down in history for it's pure genius, people will be quoting "shave the pooche" for the next millennium and dancing to "you can dance" in true biodome fashion.

Neil C gave it a10:
I can't believe the critics were so down on this movie! I mean, the scene where he goes to the cafe and shoots the cop and the gangster with the gun he finds in the toilet... oh wait, I'm thinking of 'The Godfather'. S***.

Drea C. gave it a1:
This movie stunk I've seen wallpaper funnier than this! how do people think farts junkfood and making out is funny! its not!

Tom Y. gave it a10:
this movie is an incredible masterpiece!!!!! it's miles better then Uwe bolls "alone in the dark". it's an absolute masterpiece with amazing actors. I'd give it an 11 out of 10 really!!! i would!!! p.ez ima hjocinn mun.

A Ro gave it a10:
Funny funny movie!

anon gave it a10:
In my day, never has such an epic winrar as this taken me by such force that I literally cried myself to sleep every night hoping that the tears would stop. Not tears of sadness or pain, but tears of shear beauty as this movie took my brilliance virginity and made me think that my life was nothing until that moment where I SHAVE THE POOCHIE POOCHIE! SHAVE THE POOCHIE POOCHIE! !!

Ryan gave it a10:
If you don't like this movie, than you have no reason to live.

Bio-Dome MGM

Bio-Dome
MGM