In her book 5001 Nights at the Movies, critic Pauline Kael called the film a "delayed hangover", and wrote that its "mixture of parody, cynicism and song and dance is perhaps a little sour".
Pauline Kael's review of the film, published in "5001 Nights at the Movies," describes it as a "delayed hangover" due to its combination of parody, cynicism, and song and dance elements.