'""The Monthly Film Bulletin" thought that the film "strains too hard to repeat the success of its predecessor, "The Absent-Minded Professor", and is further weighed down by some unnecessary complications presented with little wit or sparkle.But the slapstick is generally as inventive as before, taking in a delightful spoof commercial for flubber and some excellent special effects when Professor Brainard launches his home-made clouds and his flubberised football player."