Bio-Dome

Director - Jason Bloom (iZombie)
Starring - Pauly Shore (Encino Man, Son in Law), Stephen Baldwin (8 Seconds), and Henry Gibson (The 'Burbs, Eerie, Indiana)
Release Date - 1996
Genre - Horror
Tagline - "Your dome away from home"
Format - BluRay (Personal Collection) (Screener)

Rating (out of 5):

     Growing up I was a fan of all genres but I had a soft spot for stoner comedies like the Cheech and Chong films, Halfbaked, Stoned Age, Dazed and Confused, and the 1996 Pauly Shore flick Bio-Dome.  The film was not the best film that I had seen but no one can deny just how fucking fun and whimsical the film is.  When I first started collecting movies this was one of the first flicks I grab on VHS and then a few years later I found the DVD super cheap at K-Mart of all places and I quickly grabbed a copy then.  A few weeks ago I was sent word that my friends over at Olive Films was releasing this nostalgic filled film on blu and I had to have it.  I reached out to them and they were kind enough to hook me up with a review copy.  Thanks Olive Films!

     The film follows two slackers, Bud (Shore) and Doyle (Baldwin), who are constantly coming up with cons and rouses to getting out of helping their girlfriends save the planet.  They get caught in their newest scheme and their girlfriends play a trick on the boys and make them think they are going to party with some grape smugglers.  They pack up and try to intervene but Doyle has to piss and they decide to stop at a new building they believe is a mall.  However, they are very wrong and the building is actually a biodome that is sealed for one year to conduct an eco-experiment.  The two do not fit in well with the scientists and before long they royally fuck up resulting in their exile to the dome's desert.  The look around and discover a key in the window panel of the dome and open up where they grab some pizza and decide to throw a party.  After the party they realized they fucked up and ruined the experiment.  To make matters worse, the lead scientist snaps and starts living in the dome's airducts.  Bud and Doyle try to make things right and set out to make the experiment a success but the mad scientist tries to stop them at the last minute.
     Films from the 80s absorbed that decades styles, sounds, and pop culture and that is why so many people love the films of that decade.  As the 90s rolled around this was no longer the case.  Films wanted to look ageless and not a reflection of the time they are in.  However, Bio-Dome is not the case.  The film took everything that it meant to be 90s and tossed it into a blender resulting in a film that will stand the ages even though most people want to forget the 90s altogether.  The acting in this one is decent by most of the cast with Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin doing the least amount of acting.  The two are just being themselves and I think that is what makes their characters so much fucking fun.  The remainder of the cast do an amazing job at creating their characters but they go unnoticed when Bud and Doyle are on screen.  The story for this one is one new to film but not a new story altogether.  In 1991 the Biosphere 2 was an eco-experiment that was to follow the same rules as set forth in Bio-Dome but instead of scientists, they used stage actors and the experiment failed miserably.  Also, the film has a lot of laughs but you got to be open to potty humor.  The film has a lot of fart jokes so you can judge the type of comedy this is from there.  Finally, this release has no special features what so ever and that is a big let down for fans and myself.  I love this film and the fact this amazing blu transfer lack special features really upsets me.  Overall, the Olive Films release of Bio-Dome is a solid release.  The transfer is crisp and looks great but the film has no special features which is sure to turn fans off at the fact.