Kine Weekly wrote: "This simple, refreshing comedy has a very slight story, but the quaint, inimitable and typically English humour of Sydney Howard, who is in irresistible form, carries it along at an easy gait and invests it with a definite mass appeal. The production and detail work are satisfactory, and there are many bright and original gags. The picture is thoroughly English in conception, sentiment and humour, and represents good popular entertainment. "[6]
Film Weekly wrote: "British and Dominions can be commended for starring Sydney Howard, of the funny face and the expressive hands, in a full-length comedy of his own. They also deserve a word of praise for choosing typically British settings and backgrounds. But although they have produced a pleasantly amusing film, one is compelled to ask why they did not give it the benefit of a better story. According to the synopsis, it took three authors to write Up for the Cup, but the resulting narrative is so naive as to leave some doubt whether or not it is intended to be taken more or less seriously. If it is supposed to be all a huge joke, then the treatment is at fault in allowing some of the scenes to verge on melodrama.... The atmosphere of a Lancashire town, and of London on Cup Final day is faithfull reproduced, with the result that Up for the Cup is British to the backbone. Good entertainment of its kind."[7]
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