""The Washington Post" called "Dirty Tennis" "Dick Van Patten's "Spinal Tap"", and wrote the film stood as "a towering monument to the 1980s VHS era" when "mid-level celebrities could rent a camcorder, cobble together 60 minutes of junk video, splice it all together and ship it off to consumers who were starving to rent somethinganythingthey could jam into their VCRs."