 The review in "The New York Times" dismissed it as an "unfortunate comedy"., review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 27%, based on 41 reviews, with an average score of 4.27/10 and the consensus that the film "aspires to be a clever sex comedy, but has little life behind the sex or the death".Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 24 out of 100, based on twelve reviews.