Reviews were mixed. Allmusic writer Kieran McCarthy dismissed "Duke Lion Fights the Terror" as "a mediocre Ween rip-off" while "Entertainment Weekly" writer Robert Cherry wrote, "Dumb? Check. Big? Not likely." However, a positive review appeared in the "Deseret News" in which writer Scott Iwasaki, giving the album three stars, stated, ""Duke Lion Fights the Terror!!" captures Borland, as Big Dumb Face, at his most spontaneous". Bloody Good Horror writer D.M, in a mixed to favorable review, wrote, "The album’s concept is so scattershot that it’s unfathomable to call the album a cohesive whole."