 Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that Klane "has written his screenplay as tho he thought it would be his last (a position which can be self-enforcing).He's crammed the short story (only 83 minutes) with comments on the Army, little-league baseball and Central Park.He should have stayed with his major story premise which is wickedly funny."