[7][8] The accompanying music video, directed by Randee St. Nicholas, featured Babyface, Stansfield and fragments from the film.

Babyface and Stansfield's creamy voices are a perfect match, lending dimension to an otherwise familiar slice of pop romance from the soundtrack to The Pagemaster.

Track's ballad setting is coated with slick strings and sugary synths that build to a fine climax".

[11] Pan-European magazine Music & Media deemed it as a "definition of M.O.R.-type of ballad out of Diane Warren's big songbook".

[12] James Hunter from Vibe noted that "the super-engaging Babyface and Lisa Stansfield outdo most big-time duos" on "Dream Away", "singing the praises of the imagination".