Owen Gleiberman in "Entertainment Weekly" gave the film a "C" rating and criticized it for feeling "cramped and underimagined". In his review for "The Globe and Mail", Rick Groen wrote: "Perhaps his TV background makes him unaccustomed to the demands of a feature-length script (the ending seems almost panicky in its abruptness), or maybe he just succumbs to the lure of the easy yuk...what began as discomfiting satire soon devolves into silly farce." In his review in "The New York Times", Stephen Holden wrote, "It has the loose-jointed feel of a bunch of sketches packed together into a narrative that doesn't gather much momentum."