	Jeannette Catsoulis of "The New York Times" called the film "delightful" while praising musical score and animation. She also compared "Patema Inverted" with a 2012 feature film "Upside Down" (which was using similar plot and main theme) but pointed out that "this 'Can we get along?' movie literalizes a physical attraction that acts as a counterargument to the divided worlds' insistence on separation". ("Patema Inverted" was released as a web animé before "Upside Down", and they did not influence each other.)