The UK TV show Blue Peter featured a making-of-the-video special on "Hunting High and Low" to demonstrate the morphing effects of Morten into animals.

With the orchestral part of the song starting the video goes back to the silhouettes of the band, this time with an orchestra animated like a rotoscope.

As the film moves toward the end, the silhouettes of Harket, Furuholmen and Waaktaar-Savoy become full colour, and a hunter is seen lining up the lion in his sights, about to shoot.

[3] When reviewing the single, Jim Reid of Record Mirror stated: "The angst, the strain, the melodrama, the syrupy background – it can't be serious can it?

[4] By contrast, Vici McDonald of Smash Hits praised the song as being "smooth and tunesome" and "the best track" from the album, since a-ha "[ha]ve put a bit more effort into it [than on "Train of Thought"]... adding an orchestra, and getting a trendy producer to tinker around with the mix"; however, she concluded that a-ha need "far better songs than this" if they want to become as popular as the Beatles.