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Bio-Dome

Play trailer Poster for Bio-Dome PG-13,  1996,  1h 35m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 4% 25 Reviews Tomatometer 51% 50,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
4% Tomatometer 25 Reviews 51% Popcornmeter 50,000+ Ratings
Bud (Pauly Shore) and Doyle (Stephen Baldwin) get simultaneously dumped by their eco-conscious girlfriends, Monique (Joey Lauren Adams) and Jen (Teresa Hill), in the middle of the desert. Needing a bathroom, the two friends enter what they think is a mall but soon realize is a high-profile, secure biological experiment. As they engage in a year-long battle with Dr. Faulkner (William Atherton) and the other scientists, Bud and Doyle are forced to confront the recklessness of their behavior.
Bio-Dome

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Critics Consensus

Like its two obnoxious protagonists, this dreadfully unfunny Pauly Shore vehicle should remain separated from society.

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John Anderson Los Angeles Times Aug 4, 2009
0.5/5
Despite the advances humankind has made since dragging itself out of the primordial ooze, Shore is a successful comedian. Go to Full Review
Leonard Klady Variety Mar 26, 2009
It's not by any means inspired madness. Go to Full Review
Stephen Holden New York Times May 20, 2003
1/5
Inept in almost every respect. Go to Full Review
Grant Watson Fiction Machine Aug 7, 2024
3/10
Comedy is, I think, the most subjective of film genres, so I can only reflect my own opinion: Shore has a perverse talent to actively leave comedy less funny than when he found it. Go to Full Review
Mal Vincent The Virginian-Pilot Mar 22, 2022
1/4
At one point, Pauly looks into the camera and says, ``Sometimes stupid can be pretty cool.'' Not this time, Pauly. Go to Full Review
Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 3, 2020
.5/4.0
Shore captured the Razzie award for Worst Male Lead (tied with Tom Arnold) for his performance here. Go to Full Review
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Apr 8, 2019 Hilarious!! Favorite all time movie! Must watch lol... Old school, but makes me happy
Ron W Mar 18, 2019 A viewing experience so god awful, anybody who watches it gets cancer from its high amount of radioactivity. With a plot that makes zero sense whatsoever and featuring some of the worst attempts at comedy you'll ever see. This movie cemented Pauly Shore's legacy as one of the worst actors of all time. Having it being horribly acted and incredibly annoying also makes it worthy of being squandered by every film critic possible. One of the worst movies of all time, period. Overall rating: 0. See more
Finn L Jan 5, 2019 This is a crude, grotesque, pathetic college improv show parading as a ï¿ 1/2 1/2 1/2comedyï¿ 1/2 1/2 1/2ï¿ 1/2 1/2?. While I can understand the 90ï¿ 1/2 1/2 1/2(TM)s nostalgia appeal this proves to be a quintessential facet of the folly of manï¿ 1/2 1/2 1/2(TM)s hubris. Anyone trying to contend that by stating that is a ï¿ 1/2 1/2 1/2stoner filmï¿ 1/2 1/2 1/2ï¿ 1/2 1/2? for stoner people obviously has lost some brain cells. I was inebriated while watching this and it only became more belligerent and obtuse. This is a perverse and contrived effort on Pauly Shoreï¿ 1/2 1/2 1/2(TM)s part. This movie is pestilence of humor and facilitated stupidity. I can only hope that the human species is eradicated in an effort to assure no one else has to suffer the same degeneration of brain cells that I have suffered watching this. Anyone acting as a proponent of this movie need to watch something other than Ted and mall cop. Please donï¿ 1/2 1/2 1/2(TM)t let pauly shore take away from you what he has from me. See more
George S Jul 4, 2018 There are films that are completely unfunny when you first see them and you vow never to let your eyes grace them again. Then you pick up a job lot of old VHS and find one of these films then feel a strange urge to take another look, maybe there is something you missed.... ....let's be completely honest from the get-go, Pauly Shore is Marmite, hated by most. Stephen Baldwin is the brother everyone forgets. William Atherton was still dining out on Die Hard. It's all a big melting pot of facets that don't work, and they didn't in 1996. But it does in 2018. It's a stupid film, it's a film only to be watched when you want to watch something stupid. Think of it like Wayne's World, it's a riot of stereotypical nineties grungey nonsense that you don't want to relate with but still somehow do. We live in a world today where everything always seems so serious and everything always seems like it is beset by problems. We originally thought films like this were garbage simply because there were a lot more things that were funny in those days. It's not like that today so watch something like Bio-Dome, it's only 95 minutes of your life. You might cringe because you see a bit of yourself on the screen, but you were fun back then and I bet you are less fun now. End See more
Jun 1, 2018 Really funny and very underrated
Hagrid S Mar 6, 2018 hORRIFYINGLY STUPID MOVIE. jUST ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE.
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Movie Info

Synopsis Bud (Pauly Shore) and Doyle (Stephen Baldwin) get simultaneously dumped by their eco-conscious girlfriends, Monique (Joey Lauren Adams) and Jen (Teresa Hill), in the middle of the desert. Needing a bathroom, the two friends enter what they think is a mall but soon realize is a high-profile, secure biological experiment. As they engage in a year-long battle with Dr. Faulkner (William Atherton) and the other scientists, Bud and Doyle are forced to confront the recklessness of their behavior.
Director
Jason Bloom
Producer
Brad Krevoy, Steven Stabler, Bradley Jenkel
Screenwriter
Kip Koenig, Scott Marcano
Production Co
3 Arts Entertainment, Motion Picture Corporation of America
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 1, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$12.2M
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
Surround, Stereo
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