 Jordan Bartel of "The Baltimore Sun" noted that the song was "quite possibly the funkiest thing to come out of the early 1980s".Richard Williams of The Times wrote "Let's Groove, the bass-heavy new single, is a reliable pointer".Whitney Pastorek of Entertainment Weekly declared that "I actually love this song, especially the little computer voice in the background, like Pac-Man has come to life to boogie just for me!"