It’s ironic that a movie about saving the environment plays out so much like a natural disaster. “Bio-Dome” is considered to be one of the worst comedies ever made and it certainly aspires to be among the worst. It’s very much like the “Bill & Ted” films, the “Wayne’s World” movies, “Dumber And Dumber” and “Beavis And Butt-Head” but worse than any of them.
In “Bio-Dome”, the insanely moronic Bud (Pauly Shore “Jury Duty”, “In The Army Now”) and the equally stupid Doyle (Stephen Baldwin “The Usual Suspects”) are trying to win back their environmentalist girlfriends when they accidentally walk right into a bio-dome and are sealed in for a year with several scientists.
Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin are aggressively unfunny as they move from one painfully stupid antic after another. Their attempts at comedy are so woeful that I believe almost anybody off the street could be funnier than these two. William Atherton (“Ghostbusters”) plays the lead scientist, who would be okay if his character weren’t so badly written. Kylie Minogue also plays a scientist and her decision to be in this movie, is arguably worse than her decision to be in the “Street Fighter” film. Dara Tomanovich plays a scientist called Mimi and she is perhaps the only major character that didn’t irritate me. Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D appear in a very brief cameo.
There are worse things than the movie “Bio-Dome” and they include actually being stuck in close proximity to Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin for a year. This isn’t really a movie, it just meanders from one sequence of another of Shore and Baldwin being annoying with an assortment of popular songs making it more like a series of terrible music videos. “Bio-Dome” is a devastatingly bad comedy that you should avoid at pretty much every cost.