Variety reviewers also considered it had a "refreshing tongue-in-cheek attitude… Whole thing is bright, breezy and flavorsome". Less impressed was film critic John Mosher of The New Yorker, who found in the film "a bigger allotment of very British small talk and that special brand of British whimsy which makes us here think at times that at least one of the clouds over England is this particular kind of humour".
Variety reviewers found its "refreshing cheeky attitude" to be "lively, cheerful, and flavorful". However, John Mosher from The New Yorker was less impressed by the film's typical British small talk and unique brand of whimsy that can make us think England has this particular kind of humor.