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Bio-Dome
MGM


6.0

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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 6.0 (out of 10) based on 225 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Shane G gave it a0:
Idiotic, unnecessary, and a waste of money in the highest degree. This "film" is a travesty even among Pauly Shore's other movies. Unless you are have a thing for pain, keep at least one hundred yards away from the disk.

Nick P gave it a9:
I liked the movie when it came out, and I still enjoy it today. I've seen it several times on TV over the years and it never fails to deliver what I expect. A stupid, funny, and timeless Pauly Shore movie that fits in well with all of his classics; Son-In-Law, and In the Army Now. Plus, it has Stephen Baldwin!

Stephen gave it a9:
It actually blows my mind that this is rated the worst movie ever. I understand not everyone appreciates the humour, but that doesn't make the movie bad. It is aimed at a particular subset and is part of the 'stoner' movie genre, with other movies like Dude Where's My Car and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. My opinion? Critic fail. Certain critics cannot judge a movie based on its merits to the people it is aimed at. In fact reading the reviews given to the movie, is looks like most of the people who reviewed it, didn't even try to look at it objectively. Off the top of my head I can think of ten movies which are far worse than biodome as movies within their genre. But whatever, it will always be one of my favourite movies.

Gregg P. gave it a10:
This movie is funny, this critic is an asshole and has no sense of humor.

Adam B. gave it a7:
Funny movie. A real classic. I don't know why it has so many bad ratings from movie reviews.

Geoff G gave it a10:
Watched it for the first time since childhood (when I didn't understand a thing) recently. It's not even funny for it's ironic value!! It's just... plain awful.. so awful it angers me somehow.

Matt M. gave it a0:
Seriously, people, stop with the fake votes. Not funny once, not funny the 30th time.

Bio-Dome MGM

Bio-Dome
MGM