Village Voice critic Jim Hoberman said the film was "one of the two most impressive tapes in the video section of the 1987 Whitney Biennial". Art curator Bob Reily remarked that: "few have matched the technique, bravery and humor of Joan Does Dynasty". Political theorist Philip Green called the film a "wonderfully provocative video", and feminist columnist Susan J. Douglas called it "a provocative and hilarious feminist analysis of Dynasty, including the catfight!"
