Reception
Produced on an estimated budget of $15 million, Bio-Dome grossed $13,427,615 in North America.
The film was an overwhelming critical failure, universally panned by mainstream critics. Some critics even include the film on their lists of worst films.
Bio-Dome has a rating of 5% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 21 reviews. Although Bio-dome received very little praise, previous Pauly Shore films Jury Duty and In the Army Now both received 0% scores.
The film ties with two other films with the lowest aggregate score for a film in the database of Metacritic, a website which aggregates film reviews: As of October 2010, its score of 1 (indicating "Overwhelming dislike") is shared with the 2003 film The Singing Forest and the 2005 film Chaos. (Each of these films' scores is based on a sample of 10 or fewer reviews.)
At the 1996 Golden Raspberry Awards, Shore co-won a Razzie Award for Worst Actor for his work in the film, tied with Tom Arnold for that actor's performances in Big Bully, Carpool and The Stupids.
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