The Emperor has no clothes.\nMy wife and I were given tickets to this event for our 25th anniversary.  We went with great expectations, after all, it WAS in the Bellagio, we didn't pay a dime, and the reviews were excellent.  \n  The venue was great, the stage was set in a large pool with grates / false bottoms that could be raised and lowered in an instant.  They could go from swimming to standing dry and back to swimming in a matter of seconds all on the same spot. \n  Well then, how was the show itself?  If you like trapeze acts, synchronized swimming and clowns you might like the show.  I don't. And I didn't.\n  My main complaint is that I waited and waited for something spectacular to happen and it never did.  It was just a series of disjointed circus acts, the first as ordinary, long, and boring as the next. Some, like the clown acts, were just plain bad.  I sat through the performance checking my watch every five minutes or so, counting down the minutes for it to end.  This was 'pert near the longest 95 minutes of my life.  When it finally did end, (thank the Lord)  and my wife and I were making our way to the exit, I politely told her to thank the folks that gave us the tickets, I had no intention of spoiling it for her and telling her how lame I thought it was.  After all, she loves that kind of stuff, and I don't.  Just before we got to the final exit of the Bellagio she said, \"Wow, did that suck or what?\"  Um, well, \"Make sure you thank them for the tickets\" I responded.  Again, I didn't want to appear ungrateful, and was not sure she meant what she said.  \"Yeah, it was a bit slow\" I admitted.  \"SLOW? It just plain sucked!\" she announced.   OK so it wasn't just me.  My wife, who can watch ice skating and gymnastics on the tube Sunday afternoon  for hours on end thought it sucked as well.   I must  admit, If I paid $10 and saw the same show at the Barnum and Baileys Circus when it came to town I would have been just as bored but a lot less disappointed.\nHonestly, I don't have an axe to grind and I'm not trying to be mean.  I really wanted to like this show. Also, I don't want to imply the performers and musicians were sub-par.  Not at all, they were excellent, no fault of theirs the production sucked.\nDid I mention the tickets were $115 each including tax, and those were the cheap ones?\nI truly believe people give this a 5 star rating because they just blew well over $200 for some silly circus act and need to confirm with others, that what they saw and paid for, was indeed an incredible work of genius and not a pathetic scam.