Talia Kraines of BBC Music opined that "Whether there is room for such a manicured, glossy pop star in the musical landscape of 2007 is a different matter. Sophie's certainly made the pop record she wants to, and if it all sounds a tad 2002 then so be it. Good luck to her." Kitty Empire of "The Observer" wrote: "Ellis Bextor has panniers of the stuff, but you wouldn't know it from this collection of deeply ordinary songs." Matt O'Leary of Virgin Media gave the album 2.5 out of 5 stars, but ultimately wrote that "While this is a super-glossy piece of work, it does nothing to dispel the image of Sophie Ellis-Bextor as making club music it's OK for your mum to like. By no means bad." Emily MacKay of Yahoo! Music gave the album 6 out of 10 stars, writing "All in all, though, "Trip the Light Fantastic" stumbles short of the disco sublime it tries so hard to invoke. Keep on trying, Sophie."