Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin.
-John SkowFull Review
An artless, non-stop barrage of off-the-wall situations, funny and unfunny jokes, generally effective and sometimes hilarious sight gags and bawdy non sequiturs.
-Variety StaffFull Review
We get the sense at times that the cast and crew arrived at a location, found the script bankrupt of real laughs, and started looking around for funny props.
-Roger EbertFull Review
The laughs aren't steady, but they're persistent, and the film moves fast enough to compensate for its unevenness.
-Janet MaslinFull Review