Jim Foley of TalkOrigins called it a "pseudo-scientific mishmash of discredited claims and crackpot ideas". Native Hawaiians reject "Huna" as a mishmash of Hawaiian elements with European religious metaphysical ideas. "Variety", however, was "disappointed" by the "mishmash plotting" and "stilted script". "Variety" called it a "a joyless, soulless machine of a movie, an $80 million-plus mishmash". Accompanying the song was a music video featuring a "mishmash" of 1950s-inspired imagery. In the Guardian, environmental activist George Monbiot calls it "an excruciating mishmash of environment falsehoods". The word "eralash" means "mixed, mishmash" and is taken from the Turkic languages. She describes the main characters as being a mishmash of her and John. Its original name was a mishmash of various states and transportation groups. His ideals were dubbed "det kohtske knot", i.e. "the Kohtian mishmash".