 Nathan Lee for "The New York Times" declared the film "feels destined to please a campy coterie of fans and no one else" and criticized the music saying "A few catchy melodies, some clever lyrics or even a sense that the score wasn’t just one long, unmodulated track might have energized this singularly inert tale..." Tasha Robinson for "The A.V.Club" said " One of the main issues with Repo!The Genetic Opera is that nearly every aspect of it goes on too long.