I know Bio-Dome has its fans but it’s a weak imitation of Dumb and Dumber just with jokes that don’t land and two leads that are more annoying than funny. So it’s a strange movie to get the HD treatment on Blu-ray and for such a high price, $20 retail at the time of this writing, is a bit (i.e. very) extreme considering the video is just OK and the audio is substandard.
Bio-Dome
(1996)
REVIEW NAVIGATION
The Movie | Special Features | Video Quality | Audio Quality | Overall
Genre(s): Comedy
Olive Films | PG13 – 95 min. – $29.95 | April 21, 2015
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MOVIE INFO: Directed by: Jason Bloom Writer(s): Adam Leff & Mitchell Peck & Jason Blumenthal (story), Kip Koenig & Scott Marcand (screenplay) Cast: Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, William Atherton, Joey Adams, Kylie Minogue, Rose McGowan DISC INFO: Audio: English (DTS-HD MA 2.0) |
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THE MOVIE
Bud “Squirrel” Macintosh (PAULY SHORE) and Doyle “Stubs” Johnson (STEPHEN BALDWIN) are the central characters in the ultimate slacker comedy Bio-Dome. Mistaking an experimental site for a mall, Squirrel and Stubs enter in hopes of finding a bathroom and instead find themselves the unwitting participants in a biological research project and the antagonistic fouls of the by-the-book lead scientist Dr. Faulkner (WILLIAM ATHERTON).
SPECIAL FEATURES – 0/5
No features were included.
VIDEO – 3.75/5
Bio-Dome stumbles onto Blu-ray presented with a 1080p high-definition transfer and in its original 1.85 widescreen aspect ratio. The picture itself isn’t anything extraordinary but does have good detail, colors appear to be well balanced and outside of a few instances of dirt and heavy grain, meaning this was not a restoration job (not so surprising), it’s a fine looking transfer.
AUDIO – 2.5/5
I can’t say the same for the audio. The movie does come with a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 track which is, to say the least, uneven. The opening credits blare out of the two channels to the point where it was unbearable yet once the film began, things do even out where dialogue is presentable though other elements, like the sounds of the fountains to the side, were utterly flat. It’s not a dynamic track at all and its depth is severely lacking.
OVERALL – 2.0/5
Overall, I know Bio-Dome has its fans but it’s a weak imitation of Dumb and Dumber just with jokes that don’t land and two leads that are more annoying than funny. So it’s a strange movie to get the HD treatment on Blu-ray and for such a high price, $20 retail at the time of this writing, is a bit (i.e. very) extreme considering the video is just OK and the audio is substandard.
Published: 04/04/2015
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