Alan Pergament find this satiric script polarizing, and claims its "thin drama and broad comedy purposely exaggerates just about everything."

Christine Champagne promises viewers will discover "a greater appreciation of Billie Jean King and her role in the women's liberation movement."

Joanne Weintraub characterizes the film as "a wry fairy tale in which the bespectacled princess doesn't so much slay the broken-down old dragon as tweak his tail."