"Rolling Stone"s Jon Dolan called it "weirdly addictive and enjoyably absurd". The "Los Angeles Times" called the film a "thoroughly enjoyably romp of jolly horror". Partridge regretted the song, calling it "crass but not enjoyably crass". Pitchfork wrote&colon; "If anything, ["Under Wartime Conditions"] proved his most enjoyably rollicking record yet". Lael Loewenstein of "Variety" called it "fairly fatuous but enjoyably slim family entertainment". "Enjoyably offbeat" The Times 27 April 2004 (TV preview). Like Bilbo's, Morris's party set off enjoyably into the wild on ponies.