Much Ado About Nothing (2012 film) film's opening weekend in the United Kingdom grossed $101,237 from having been screened at 64 locations. The box office numbers for Australia's opening weekend amounted to $78,196. The foreign box office contributed $971,794 to the film's final cume. "Much Ado About Nothing" has received generally positive reviews from critics, earning an 85% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 7.6/10, based on 161 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads: "Lighthearted to a fault, "Much Ado About Nothing"s giddy energy and intimate charm make for an entertaining romantic comedy—and a Shakespearean adaptation that's hard to resist". On Metacritic,
Much Apu About Nothing succeeds as a savage satire on the scapegoating of immigrants. Homer has never been so frighteningly dumb, although he does come through with a rousing liberal speech." The episode is "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening's third favorite episode of the show. The episode received a negative review from Dave Foster of DVD Times. He considered "Much Apu About Nothing" to be one of the season's most "tiring" episodes, "mostly because Apu is not a strong enough character to focus an episode on no matter how much writer David Cohen develops him". Foster commented that the episode deals with a political