While the film was a box-office failure (mostly due to mixed reviews over its gratuitous sex scenes, including one involving S&M), it is best remembered for its soundtrack, which was produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of the group Chic, who performed the title track.

Rodgers and Edwards wrote and produced three songs for the film, one by Teddy Pendergrass ("Dream Girl"; he performs this in a cameo as a night club singer), another by Sister Sledge ("Let's Go on Vacation") and one for Carly Simon ("Why") (UK #10).

Ron Base of The Toronto Star likened Rubinek's character to John Hinckley, Jr., who attempted to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan a year before; he also derided director-writer Kaufer's style of comedy, saying that "his desperation to squeeze out a laugh is unparalleled; one expects him to start shooting dogs in hopes it will draw a chuckle from someone in the audience.

He also noted that "there seems to be, in the Neil Simony broth of 'Soup,' with its shtik and its fatuous characters who seem to have no reason for existence other than to deliver one-liners, a Woody Allen soul struggling for liberation.

And Rubinek, who was fine as the hero's comedian pal in 'Ticket to Heaven,' is too concerned with following in the footsteps of Woody Allen and Dudley Moore as an offbeat lover to find a style of his own as effective as theirs.

"[5] Tom McElfresh of The Cincinnati Enquirer called the film's main character "silly, mawkishly sentimental, Insensitive[,] monumentally boring [and] ludicrous enough to promote yawns and disbelief instead of the intended belly laughs."

"[6] Vincent Canby wrote a more mildly positive review of the film in The New York Times, which read: If movies were people, you might say that Soup for One is still struggling to get through its awkward age.

[7] Kathleen Carroll of the New York Daily News gave the film two-and-a-half stars, remarking that it " ouldn't have cost much more than a can of soup, judging from the cheesy photography and the sloppy editing.

But for someone who is just getting his feet wet in the movie business, writer-director Jonathan Kaufer displays flashes of wit that make this romantic comedy about the mating game seem quite lovable at times.