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Metascore
10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 42Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyEven 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.
- 20TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA 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.
- 0The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThoroughly incoherent... A dreary fizzle. [12 Jan 1996, p.C12]
- 0San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackShore 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.
- 0Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittPauly 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.
- 0Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonA 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.
- 0San Francisco ExaminerSan Francisco ExaminerThis film may set an all-time record for shortest time between the big screen and your local video store.
- 0VarietyVarietyNeither 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.
- 0Los Angeles TimesJohn AndersonLos Angeles TimesJohn 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.
- 0The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe 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.