Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film marked the highest point of Eastwood's directing career, and the film has since been cited as one of his most underrated directorial achievements.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film's " musical numbers are strung together so mindlessly that the movie has the feel of an interminable variety show "; while it may have been " conceived in a spirit of merriment, ... watching it feels like playing shuffleboard at the absolute insistence of a bossy shipboard social director.

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