Bio-Dome

Plot synopsis:
Bud "Squirrel" Macintosh and Doyle "Stubs" Johnson are best friends who live together. Bud wins a round of Rock, Paper, Scissors and gets to hit Doyle in the head with a book. Their girlfriends Monique and Jen arrive to take them to an Environmental Party when they discover the injured Doyle. The girls learn that the book was used to injure Doyle as an excuse to not go. The girls call the boys from a payphone to announce they'll be joining some hot swim team guys at a party down by a lake. Bud and Doyle drive out to the lake, only to find they have been had.
Driving back home, they pass by the Bio-Dome, where scientist Dr. Noah Faulkner is about to seal his team in for a year without outside contact. Mistaking the Bio-Dome for a mall, Bud and Doyle go inside to use the bathroom, to be sealed in along with the scientists. Dr. Leaky, the project's investor, discovers them and demands that they be kicked out. Dr. Faulkner refuses, claiming it would destroy the purpose of the experiment, and so Bud and Doyle remain. This proves to be a mistake, as Bud and Doyle continue their antics, harming themselves and destroying many of the scientists' projects. The scientists plead to Dr. Faulkner, but he only relents after the two find a secret stash of junk food and experiment with laughing gas. Bud and Doyle are then banished to the desert environment section and after three days of being stuck, they discover a key in the lock of one of the windows, which opens a back door, and they escape the Bio-Dome.
As Bud and Doyle are receiving a pizza delivery at the dome, they learn Jen and Monique are attending an environmental party with other men. Bud and Doyle decide to outdo the party and hold one inside the Bio-Dome to win them back. The party backfires as it throws the experiment into chaos and Jen and Monique disavow the boys. The scientists prepare to exit out the desert through the door. Doyle intervenes and demands they all stay and restore the dome to full health, swallowing the key as a last resort. As the group gets a grip on the situation and begins to fix the dome, Dr. Faulkner, who had disappeared the night of the party, has gone insane and is starting plans to blow up the Dome with homemade coconut bombs. As Earth Day approaches, the team is successful in restoring the dome and on the night before the doors open again, Bud and Doyle discover Dr. Faulkner. He tells the two that he is rigging pyrotechnics for the door opening ceremony and gets them to help plant the bombs. Once Bud and Doyle are on their own with the bombs, they goof off with one of the coconuts and after a failed long pass, discover their explosive nature. They alert the others and try to exit the dome early, but the door cannot be opened until the clock hits zero, when the bombs will go off. Bud and Doyle run back into the dome to find Dr. Faulkner and get him to deactivate the bombs. They wind up finding him and through a chase and struggle, knock him out and use the remote to disable the coconuts.
The team gets ready to exit the now open door, but as they begin to walk out, Dr. Faulkner returns with one last coconut bomb, trips, and the bomb detonates at the entrance. It turns out everyone is ok with Bud and Doyle reuniting with Jen and Monique who are proud of what they have been able to achieve. As Bud, Doyle, Jen and Monique drive off, Doyle yet again has to use the bathroom and the car is seen driving toward a mysterious nuclear power plant. Dr. Faulkner, however, has escaped the dome through the desert window door, having retrieved the key Doyle swallowed.

Tags: bleak, stupid

Review:
Great for Pauly Shore fans and for those who enjoy slapstick comedy.
I'm actually quite surprised at the low user rating of 3.8 when movies like "You don't mess with the Zohan" which is possibly the worst film ever made manage to get over 5.0!!!!
Bio-dome is a great "swith-off your brain" type of film which shouldn't be taken seriously at all.
Pauly Shore with his ability to destroy any script steals the show from every other cast member, including stars with amazing film pedigree like Kylie Minogue (Street Fighter).
They have of course been involved with such films as Outside Providence, Double Tap and Double Bang.But back with the film...For you who have had the privilege, yes PRIVILEGE to have enjoyed this film, I'm sure you will agree that this classic must never be forgotten, and certainly this awe-struck fan will always have it at the forefront of his mind.Go for the Baldwin, stay for the Shore....
No film which boasts Pauly Shore and Kylie Minogue as two of the main characters was ever going to be tasteful or deeply philosophical but hey, you don't always have to find meaning in a movie.
I can only assume those that have given high rapts to this poor excuse for a comedy film are either die-hard Baldwin and Shore fans or family related.After the film bombed in American cinemas, in Australia it was decided by it's distributors that it would be dumped straight to video-store shelves, even though it had huge Aussie-born singing star Kylie Minogue(Dr. Petra von Kant) co-staring.
I've even re-watched it stoned (let's be honest, it was probably made to be viewed that way) just to see if the altered perception would make it any better, and it actually killed my buzz.Pauly Shore and one of the Baldwins that's not Alec seem to be in a pissing contest to see who can come off as more talentless.
Follow Pauley Shore and Stephen Baldwin as they unearth the cruel and meaningless system set inside the confines of the dark and steely Bio-Dome.
Admittedly, the scene where Bud & Doyle inhale laughing gas ala Dennis Hopper in "Blue Velvet" is the funniest spoof I've ever seen in a  movie!!
All in all, this was a fun, feel good movie, and yes, Pauly Shore does get VERY annoying at times, but hey, this is all just for fun.
Shakespeare it ain't, but if you're in the mood for a fun, feel-good movie to watch on a lazy weekend, check Bio-Dome out!
The single best reason for watching Bio-Dome is the sexy as hell Joey Lauren Adams (From Mallrats, Chasing Amy, SFW) dressed in possibly the sexiest white-trash-girl-next-door outfits ever committed to screen.
Although I might sneak into a Bio-Dome just to swim in the lagoon or sleep in a storage room just like the characters of Stephen Baldwin and Pauly Shore appropriately named "Bud" and "Doyle".
When this movie came out to theaters and not even seeing any previews I sensed it was going to be a stinker, since I saw most of Pauly Shore's previous movies and had yet to utter even a single laugh or chuckle.
I enjoy stupid humor but stupid with no humor is just plain annoying, and that's what you get with a Pauly Shore movie.
This contrived piece of "film" is one that is deserving of a death sentence for the studio executive who green lit this project.The acting is poor, considerably so because of the incipient moron Pauly Shore, the script sub-par, and would only appeal to an uncouth savage.
In fact, anything Malcolm McDowell did with a newlywed couple and a fistful of mashed potatoes in CALIGULA was a thousand times funnier than the collective 'jokes' of BIO-DOME.Movies like this always raise frightening questions.
Why is Pauly Shore still paid to appear in movies when the world, by now, should have made him feel unsafe in going outdoors lest a crippling injury befall him?
How can a movie be so bad that even a four-second appearance by Tenacious D isn't worth sitting through it?In closing, I share the words of a good friend who watched the film with me.
Bio Dome is not the absolute worst movie I have ever seen, and by no means deserves to be on the bottom 100 list, but it's pretty darn close.
Anyone who says this movie is not worth watching does not know how to enjoy everything in life.
Bio Dome is a funny display of those people in high school that you thought would never amount to anything might actually be as adults.
Bud Macintosh (Pauly Shore) is wonderful in this film...I believe its one of his best.
A Few Reasons to Watch Bio Dome...This movie is my favorite movie of all time!
Pauly Shore is a real problem with this movie, I never liked his acting style and this movie has done nothing for me to say otherwise.
It did not have the goofy likability of "Dumb and Dumber", nor the laughs of comedies like "Tommy Boy" or "Monty Python." It only possessed pure idiocy, which apparently all the actors and actresses in this movie thrived on..
Anything about a biosphere should be funny as there is really nothing much to do than think about anything that is a distraction from work at certain times .The movie should really succeed here .On the other hand the survival of mankind may depend on the functionality of these friends..
Bud Weisman (Pauly Shore) and Doyle Johnson (Stephen Baldwin) are two idiot best friends.
The idiots take a drive and end up at the Bio-Dome where Dr. Noah Faulkner (William Atherton) leading a group of scientists are about to begin an one-year experiment.
go get this movie, it is great for hanging out with friends, and getting a good laugh..
Bio-Dome is the Worst Movie Ever!.
Bio-Dome is the most disgraced comedy I've ever seen and there are so many reasons why do I hate this movie so much?
The question is...Yes. This movie is about two stupidest dudes are planning stay over at Bio-Dome for next 365 days, until they started to ruin the entire experiment where no else to get out of this damn dome.
Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin are the worst annoying characters that I rather kill myself watching these dumb idiots are acting like monkeys and they have no charm like these goofy funny people like Lloyd and Harry from "Dumb and Dumber." One of the biggest problem about this piece of crap is annoying.
This could be a holocaust of a bad comedy to suffer their humanity of getting suicide while watching this terrible movie.
Most Pauly Shore movies suck most of the time.
Pauly Shore, far from being an incipient moron, is in fact a genius, he is so weird yet it's completely hilarious and Stephen Baldwin is unbelievably funny too.
The movie is not about the acting talents of Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin (although Stephen Baldwin clearly is a composite actor, exemplified in films such as The Usual Suspects, the fact he can play a diverse range of roles is another testament to his competence).
Its an easy going, endlessly funny film, perfect for when you wanna watch a movie but don't want some epic Hollywood visual diatribe about mankind or love or some pretentious crap like that.Go see..
This film is all you can expect from a film staring Pauly Shore and has everything you would want from a movie that was created to be watched with beer, pizza and mates.
Some times it's good to put on a movie you don't need to concentrate on, have fun chatting to friends, have a drink and say "aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh" every time someone makes a joke about sex.
Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin are best friends from childhood.
Having been convinced (more like forced) to sit through this movie, I can only hope that they find a toxic waste dump, throw Pauly Shore into it and head for the hills.
Shore and Baldwin's characters are people you're not supposed to like until they change, but surprise they're still not any more likable than when they were introduced in this movie.
I am not a big fan of Pauly Shore and this is the kind of movie I would expect from him, but Stephen Baldwin, c'mon man!
BIO-DOME is recommended for sissies who worship Pauly Shore's teachings of illicit ways.
I hate that we could have made an ACTUAL BIO-DOME for 15 million dollars (the movies budget), and most of all, I hate myself for putting up with it.
Bio-Dome is one of those comedies where the bad humor is good.
In a weird distorted way it's nearly on the same level of making a comedy that has "good" jokes.Sure, Bud and Doyle do a bunch of annoying and stupid things throughout the film but it's obvious that the film wants them to learn from their annoyances and be better people.
There are those who believe that this movie is harmless fun, when in fact you would have to be one of the hysterically laughing stoners from Reefer Madness to find it at all entertaining.
Again, the idea that this whole movie might actually be a social allegory about man partying over Mother Nature's deathbed may occur to those viewers who are still aware of their surroundings, but it quickly gets lost thanks to several long scenes involving Pauly Shore not being funny.This whole business goes on for ninety fairly painful minutes.
The best part of the movie was that it did not end with a title card that read Pauly Shore Returns In....
Even though you KNOW they're just actors playing a role (Incidentally, did Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin have any idea how irritating they were while playing these wretched parts?
Someone must LOVE wasting money) In fact, pretty much everything.It's just a colossal FAIL from top to bottom, a film which should be laughed at and despised until the Earth DOES end.Which will be a lot quicker, if crap like this is the best they've got as propaganda...
Poo. Bio-Dome is one of the very few movies I couldn't even finish watching.
I always despised Paully Shore because he sucks and just isn't funny at all, but after this movie I really could not stand him at all.
This film is anti comedy, so bad and so unfunny it begs the question how it was made, and somewhat a success.Pauley Shore and Stephen Baldwin plays two dimwit best friends who accidentally become test subjects of a Bio Dome project to sustain life for a year.
Being forced to stay in the Bio Dome with the other scientists, their goofy antics ultimately ruin everything, including what comedy stands for.A lot of the comedy comes from Pauley and Stephen making goofy faces and noises.
"Two twits from Tucson," pompous Pauly Shore (as Bud Macintosh) and brain-dead Stephen Baldwin (as Doyle Johnson), have a fight with their girlfriends and go out for a drive on "Earth Day".
More annoying than funny, the co-leads make you wonder how they became movie stars.** Bio-Dome (1/12/96) Jason Bloom ~ Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, William Atherton, Joey Adams.
Pauly Shore may be obnoxious and not that funny, but with Bio-Dome he has made art.
These great ideas I have for movies pale in comparison to BIO-DOME..
i actually enjoyed Bio-dome sure the premise and the actors all sucked but it was a funny movie.
Pauly Shore wasn't the best choice for this movie.
I think if you want a good laugh and are hangin out with your "buddy" then this is the movie for you.But if you are one of those people who do not like teen-like movies then you should not watch it.
In my opinion Bio-Dome is the single worst movie I've ever seen.There is not one funny moment in the entire movie and almost every scene was just bad, not to mention the ridiculous plot.
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.
We originally thought films like this were garbage simply because there were a lot more things that were funny in those days.
In summary: rent it/download it now if you want a silly comedy with plenty of laughs.I recently watched this movie again after a few years and I still find it hilarious.
I don't know what kind of serious plot people are expecting, but it's meant to be taken as seriously as something like Billy Madison.The dialogue is full of great one-liners that you don't always pick up the first couple times watching, because you're too busy laughing at something else.The total randomness and watching these guys constantly dancing around for no reason just cracks me up.It slows down a bit near the end where it turns into the usual Hollywood 'get the bad guy, save the day' stuff.
I've seen other Pauly Shore movies, and although they were bad, they were at least watchable.
bio dome is a stupid movie, yes i know, but the movie has something that makes you want to watch the movie over and over again.
A strangely amusing movie about two stoners dealing with the environment (great combination).Idiot collegians, Bud Macintosh (Pauly Shore) and Doyle Johnson (Stephen Baldwin).
Pre-Half Baked.Starring: Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, William Atherton, Joey, Lauren Adams, and Kylie Minogue.
it is pretty darn funny to me why people waste their time on here complaining about how bad a movie was!
Bio-Dome has obviously accomplished something if people are still complaining about it nearly a decade later.So you think Pauley Shore is a crappy actor, great.
sorry guys, there goes you stoner flick stereotype).I love this movie, every time I watch it I see subtle things that stick out that make it even more enjoyable.
Bio-Dome is not the best movie ever.
You just have to watch Bio-Dome with the expectations that its going to be stupid.
Not everybody is Kevin Smith, but if you hate Pauly Shore and you hate Bio Dome you probably hate Adam Sandler and Kevin Smith.
Bio-Dome just is what it is, its a weird little movie thats still funny because its so absurd.
Okay, so I'm asking for it by voluntarily watching a Pauly Shore movie, I know.
Shore makes Adam Sandler look like a comic genius, and Stephen Baldwin manages to destroy all the good will he achieved from The Usual Suspects in about, oh, ten minutes.
This is however, a good-time movie.Like I just said, to enjoy this movie best you should watch it with a group of friends and be prepared to quote it until the end of time.
This movie has Pauly Shore in it.
Look, every Pauly Shore movie is about seeing a loser stoner guy irritate intelligent people around him and somehow either cause their downfall or change their mind about him.
This movie is one of the best examples of Paulie Shores genius.
I definitely recommend this movie to anyone who loves Paulie Shores unique humor and even those who don't.
Even if you HATE Pauly Shore you need to see this movie!
Bio-Dome has got to be the funniest movie ever made.
The only Pauly Shore movie worth watching.
I've seen other Pauly Shore movies and I was bored with them & never found them funny, Bio-Dome is the exception.
A lot of my friends as well find this movie funny so it's not just meIf I were to give any reason as to why I find it so funny it would probably be the interaction between Pauly Shore an the Baldwin guy.
I had to make an account to say that the movie didn't get worse, they just got older and forgot how to laugh at dumb things.Bio-dome is an awesome stoner comedy to watch with your friends as are all of Pauly Shore's movies.
The only reason the movie doesn't have better reviews is because people that enjoy these films are too busy out having fun with life and not writing bad things about everything they didn't enjoy online..
i would recommend this movie to anyone who likes a good laugh.
Shore and Baldwin are unwatchable - and so is this movie..
OK anyone who thinks this movie sucks really wouldn't like me.
I don't really know Pauly Shore that well, I saw him in Encino man and he wasn't to bad, but judging from some of the comments I've read he is not exactly a well liked man!
Bio-Dome is so bad a movie that I refuse to waste my time by writing any more than a paragraph on it.
It's a "Bio-Hazard" to any person who watches movies.
If you walk into this (or any other Pauly Shore movie) expecting much more than that, then you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
This movie is stupid yet funny and I don't know why.
I just cannot figure out why Pauly Shore is so funny to me.
Well anyways this is worth a rental if you want to see a stupid movie, if you are bored watch it on tv save your money.3/10 (just for some funny scenes).
It is so funny (even for Pauly Shore)!
I have to admit, I am not a big fan of Pauly Shore, but I really loved this movie!!
If you actually sat down and watched the movie, I bet a lot of people would end up laughing a lot more than they thought they would..
i am a HUGE HUGE Stephen Baldwin fan and i dont think him or this movie ever get enough credit..sure Pauley Shores in it but really its not that bad.
I think that if you like Stephen and are looking for some comedy you should watch this movie.