 Chris Hicks of the Deseret News called the single " absolutely hilarious " , and rhetorically asked " who else would think of adapting that ridiculously popular movie 's themes to new lyrics for Jimmy Webb 's classic ditty ' MacArthur Park ' ? " Hicks ' felt that the song 's funniest moments involved the jokes revolving around lawyers and the mention of Barney . Amanda Cohen of the Pittsburgh Post @-@ Gazette wrote that it combined " the schlock of the original song with schtick about the dinosaur movie " and proved that " Yankovic is as funny as ever " . Furthermore , she noted that it was evidence that " his voice improves with every new release " . In a review of the Spike and Mike 's Festival of Animation , Arthur Salm called the piece a " knockout " and praised the humor , specifically highlighting the claymation cameo of Steve Spielberg and the " goofy velociraptor " from the opening of the video . 
