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Bio-Dome
Overwhelming dislike
Based on 10 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 263 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 263 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jordan S. gave it a10:
Pauly Shore Fans, My kinda people. This movie is awesome.
Zack H. gave it a0:
No no no no no no this is the worst movie everif you say it's good for a stoner comedy and that i have to lower my expectations your wrong and no better than those idiots who say transformers 2 was based on a toy commercial and i have to lower my expectations. I'm fourteen and this is some of the worst and most immature comedy ever. the voices all make me want to kill myself and i end up taking the bad guys side.
Jacob W. gave it a0:
The worste movie I have ever seen in my whole life! Pauly Shore and Stephen Bauldwin both destroy this movie with unfunny jokes, horrible acting and the most annoying voices ever. The "jokes" in this movie are begging for attention with no success. Anyone that found this movie entertaining in the slightest are either retarded or haven't seen an actual Comedy movie. Everyone that thinks this is a good movie, please watch the Nostalgia Critics review of this so you can be englightened on why this movie sucks so much.
Jonny H. gave it a10:
Side splittingly funny! If you don't like this get yourself checked out a cried for the 1hour 30 it was so terrifically funny!
Michael L. gave it a7:
This movie was really funny, and the safety dance scene is the only thing I can remember from when I was 4 years old- I didn't love it, but It doesn't fail on any level, and these publications need to hire some people who weren't born and raised in a 50000 sq. ft. mcmansion to review these movies.
A S gave it a7:
Yes, this movie is a comedy. But, I put it in a class of movies with the likes of Idiocracy: they aimed for laughs and ended up with a rather poignant commentary on the state of the world and associated attitudes. There are a lot of crude jokes in Bio-Dome, to be sure, but then, that's Pauly Shore's style. If you go into this movie thinking something else, you have no business critiquing movies (or any form of entertainment). I found the movie "funny enough". As for what the movie was trying to tell people, obviously the message got lost on a lot of people. Even the people that society views as degenerates can help foster change. The movie presents stoners that just want to party, but then they have a moment of clarity that allows them to see how they aren't contributing anything. Shore's speech about "now we can show the world how to fix things from where we really are" versus living in some kind of perfect world that doesn't exist made this movie AT LEAST a 5/10 on any scale. Voting it lower shows that someone was unable to see past the facade of the movie for the message. I remember someone telling me once "don't judge a book by its cover". Well, so-called professional critics, you would do well to heed that advice and rate movies more accurately and with less judgment.
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.
