Awarding the film a B+, "Entertainment Weekly" film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote that Marshall "directs Gina Wendkos’ girl-wise script ... with avuncular affection and, by his standards, a minimum of court jestering, and he encourages moments of appropriate delirium among his large cast", highlighting Andrews and Oh's contributions and dubbing it a "charming ... production" that "gets the duckling-to-swan ambivalence just right."