Critic Roger Ebert wrote that ""Baby's Day Out" contains gags that might have worked in a Baby Herman cartoon, but in live action, with real people, taxis, buses, streets, and a real baby, they're just not funny. The Worton twins are adorable as Baby Bink, however; the audience produced an audible coo the first time they saw him on the screen." He gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four. However, his partner on the "Siskel & Ebert" show, Gene Siskel, liked it and called it an "absolute perfect child's-eye view of the fantasies that they might have."