 Chris Johnson of Daily Mail complimented the costumes worn in the tour . Aidin Vaziri of San Francisco Chronicle said that " During her 90 @-@ minute performance — not so much a live concert as a meticulously choreographed spectacle — Lady Gaga also evoked Kanye West with the futuristic set , Britney Spears in her heavy @-@ lidded stage movements , Courtney Love with her interminable between @-@ song monologues highlighted by four @-@ letter squelches and — who else ? — Madonna for , oh , just about everything else . " Jim Harrington from San Jose Mercury News felt that the show would have been better technically if around thirty minutes were lessened from it . James Montogomery from MTV reviewed the concert at San Diego and said that " [ Gaga ] powered through and turned the San Diego Sports Arena into a raucous , delightfully raw discotheque . " Writing for the Las Vegas Sun , Joe Brown observed that " Lady Gaga out @-@ Cher @-@ ed Cher , made Cirque du Soleil and Britney 's ' Circus Tour ' look like county fair carnivals , and made New Year 's Eve in Las Vegas anticlimactic . " Los Angeles Times writer Ann Powers avouched that the tour was " an invigoratingly ambitious show , executed with vigor by its star and her expressive dancers . " Jon Pareles from The New York Times said that the tour always provided " something worth a snapshot : a sci @-@ fi tableau , perhaps , or a skimpy , glittery costume . The more her image gets around , the better Lady Gaga does . " 
