text: Martin F. Kohn of the Detroit Free Press wrote that "the script, by director Amy Heckerling and Neal Israel, provides a dime's worth of characterization and a nickel's worth of plot.The story line is so flimsy that the film deteriorates into a series of music videos [that] are downright delightful compared to some of the minor characters, particularly the kids' mooching, trigger-happy Uncle Stuart and the proprietor of the baby gym, played by one Gilbert Gottfried (picture Richard Simmons with Martha Raye's mouth) whose performance makes Pee-wee Herman look like Sir Laurence Olivier. Incidentally, the voice of the talking toilet is Mel Brooks. Now there's an idea for a sitcom." David Lyman of The Cincinnati Post called it "an embarrassingly bad 81 minutes that is humorless, dismally dull and totally devoid of cleverness." 