"The Austin Chronicle" called the song a "demented Bollywood fever dream manages to out-deprave R. Kelly." "SPIN" said that the song was "so sophomoric that [it borders on surreal, all syncopated dis-gibberish and loony celebrity-baiting." "The New York Times" said that the song was "brilliantly inane: Dr. Dre lays some curlicued sitars atop a lazy bass line, while Eminem pays tribute to Hilary Duff and the Olsen Twins, delivering his rhymes in a thick accent that's supposed to be either Triumph the Insult Comic Dog or Arnold Schwarzenegger (apparently, they talk the same)." "Slant Magazine" called "Ass Like That" "a whole song devoted to Robert Smigel’s Triumph The Insult Comic Dog". "The A.V. Club" called it "a track so muddled that it's hard to tell whether it's a song-length putdown of Triumph The Insult Comic Dog or an elaborate backhanded homage. The song backfires spectacularly, because Eminem and Triumph essentially share the same shtick—deflating celebrity egos with barbed wisecracks—and because at this point, Triumph is a lot funnier and more pointed in his putdowns than his human counterpart."