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, writing for the Los Angeles Daily News, described it as "staggeringly bad," while Mick LaSalle, from the San Francisco Chronicle, said it was "impossible to make anyone laugh even in a place filled with laughing gas and clowns wearing nose prosthetics."