Negative responses came from Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Daily News calling it "staggeringly bad" and Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle stating that "It couldn't buy a laugh in a nitrous oxide factory with a fistful of clown noses."
Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Daily News found it "staggeringly bad" and Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle deemed it "unfunny," suggesting it was difficult to make anyone laugh even in a setting filled with nitrous oxide and clown noses.