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Bio-Dome

5 star:		(47)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(15)

 

 

If you're not comfortable using your brain as you watch comedies, i.e. enjoy Chris Farley and/or Will Ferrell movies, then this is one for you. It shouldn't be a disappointment to "In The Army" fans either. It's perfect for a couch-laying-hangover-Sunday-afternoon. But a warning must be announced: Not for uptight and/or square people; one will either love it or hate it.

This flick makes Flash Gordon look like high art. That I can't get The Committments on DVD but this thing is available proves that there is no justice. Shame on everyone involved in this movie and shame on all of you who give this movie a good review. This movie is a blemish on the Memory of Mr. Shore and his body of work and...oh, he's still alive. That poor man.

The leading players of this movie say it all: Stupid! We have Pauley "the Weasel" Shore doing his thi-ing. Then we have the black-sheep of the Baldwin clan; Billy. Together they land themselves in a major scientific experiment. The story is well dumb, but could have better if actual funny people could have played their roles. Shore and Baldwin just try too hard at being something they are not:funny! I swear one can become dumber after watching this movie. It ranks up there with Carrrot-Top's finest! Don't waste your time or energy.

Bio-Dome compels one to ponder one of life's most inexplicable mysteries: how could Pauly Shore be given the opportunity to make out with both Kylie Minogue and Joey Lauren Adams - and actually get paid a good sum of money for the privilege? I mean, come on - that is just wrong on so many levels. Oh man, Joey Adams ... Sorry. What was I talking about? Oh, yeah, Bio-Dome. This is a really dumb movie; in fact, this may be the dumbest movie Pauly Shore ever made, and that's really saying something. Pauly Shore isn't even the dumbest character in this movie; he's a veritable da Vinci compared to Stephen Baldwin's character. These two guys are almost too dumb to live for the first half of the film. Then, somehow or other, things start to turn around and - despite numerous moments of utter crudity - you end up not hating the film in the end. There are even a few nice surprises along the way, such as what I believe to be the first film performance by Jack Black and Kyle Gass (Tenacious D) and a couple of scenes with a young Rose McGowan. Oh man, Rose McGowan ...

Bud Macintosh (Pauly Shore) and his bud Doyle Johnson (Stephen Baldwin) are two incredibly stupid slacker college students who somehow have hot girlfriends (Joey Adams and Teresa Hill). The girls are devoted environmentalists, so the boys are constantly going to extremely stupid lengths to get out of attending environmental events with them. The only way these guys could possibly care about Mother Nature is if she started stripping. So it is not without a heavy dose of irony when they accidentally find themselves trapped within the new Bio-Dome outside of town, having mistaken the place for a mall. With the doors locked until the next Earth Day 365 days later, they're in there for the long haul alongside the five dedicated scientists who actually volunteered to live there for a year. As you can well imagine, the constant adolescent actions of Bud and Doyle cause nothing but trouble - disaster, actually. As you can probably guess, it's ultimately up to them to save the whole Bio-Dome project after personally destroying it, and it is here that the film finally takes a turn for the better.

I don't dislike Pauly Shore as much as most people seem to. Son-in-Law is a comedy classic, as far as I'm concerned, but that features a somewhat mellow Pauly Shore. Taken in excess, Shore can be incredibly annoying, especially when teamed up with another brain-dead character like Doyle. I really didn't enjoy the first half of this movie. When the guys finally take on a little bit of responsibility, start acting like they have at least one or two neurons actually firing in their brains, and stop acting like complete idiots all of the time, some actual comedy is finally given room to come to the surface. I'm not saying there aren't a lot of crude and stupid moments in the second half of the film because there are plenty of them. I'm just saying that the comedy finally becomes something you can actually laugh at and enjoy down the stretch. It's enough for me to give the film three stars overall.

Sometimes i'll watch a movie that i remember from when i was a kid with high expectations. recently i returned to a movie called the pest starring john liguizamo which was suppose to be a comedy but was just over the top annoying. much like how i felt about bio dome. the two main characters are extremly annoying and i dont really like dissing paulie shore but you can tell he had a lot of fun making this movie but forgot to make it fun for the viewer. its about two friends getting locked inside a bio dome for a year with a bunch of rocket scientists. basically paulie and friend just annoy the scientists and everyone around them for the whole movie and try and creat catch frazes for themselves but just end up making lame jokes. the two losers have to hot girlfriends who do their part to save the environment by not wearing bras and are obviously out of paulie and friends league. bio-dome is the perfect example of dumb comedy done wrong. dont get me wrong....i like dumb comedies, as long as they are funny. i enjoy most adam sandler, jim carrey, and will farrell movies which is what bio dome seems to strive for but falls way short.

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I read on a website that this film was rated as a "BOMB". That is the worst rating I've ever heard for one of the funniest movies ever. Non-stop laughs! Pauly Shore is a comic genius, and he shows it in this movie. If you're a serious comedy lover, this is a must-have DVD. So buy it here at Amazon!

I watched 'Bio-Dome' under extreme protest. I didn't really expect much, but I had no idea how wretched it would truly be. Pauly 'The Weasel' Shore and Stephen Baldwin star as Bud and Doyle, two losers (there's a casting surprise!) who, thinking they are going to a mall, inadvertently get trapped within a futuristic 'Bio-Dome' scientific research station, and hilarity (allegedly) ensues. This makes 'Chairman of the Board' starring Carrot Top look like a serious contender for an Academy Award. Adding to the agony is an early screen appearance by the mega-untalented Jack Black, as if Pauly and Stephen weren't more than enough to discourage you.

'Bio-Dome' is essentially a glimpse of the hilarity that goes on in a seventh grade boy's locker room. Jokes about K-Y Jelly and flatulence abound, so if you think that is utterly hilarious, this movie may be for you. The good news is this: this is the film that utterly killed Pauley Shore's screen popularity, so for that I say thank you to the producers of 'Bio-Dome' for making this pile.

A cult classic. Son-In_law is my favorite but this is a close second. Over the years I have watched this movie at least 30 times. When it comes to the party scene at the end it gets a little weak. Pauly and Steven Baldwin feed off each other like they grew up together. "Hey, Faulkner! Quit hoggin the KY!"

If the Peace Corps is the toughest job you'll ever love, then Biodome is the stupidest movie you'll ever laugh at. Fewer movies are more deserving of MST3K Status!!! It's especially helpful when ("ah hum") in high spirits with friends. Shoulda won an Oscar for Best Fart Scene!!!