content: TOP TEN DISAPPOINTING THINGS ABOUT LE REVE\n\n10.  The music was le bad.  Half of the music was blaring loud Norse God chanting -- made popular in action movie trailers.  The other half was a collection of the cheesiest first draft on the nose Off Broadway tunes you've ever heard -- music that explained to you what the visuals already have, but as if poorly translated from another language.\n\nI cannot stress how bad the music was.  At times, you smirked at it more than the clowns.  This is a DEAL breaker.\n\n09.  The show was mostly water acrobatics and wire work.  You know, people going up and down and up and down on wires.  Or people diving or falling into the water.  Cirque's 'O' water is way more diverse.  And poetic somehow.\n\n08.  Although every seat was awesome, the show wasn't.  So who cares if you can see everything from any seat when there's precious little too see?  Let me rephrase that -- there's much to see, but half of it either isn't engaging or gets repetitive after a while.\n\n07.  Good Cirque shows have an artistic cohesion.  Le Reve didn't.  There were too many things wedged in.  A Devil walking around.  Sexy legs in red high heels kicking from the water.  A dude that looked like he stepped out of LOTRs.   Giant flowers.  A samba number.  Clowns in suits.  A giant hydraulic machine.  I was waiting for the kitchen sink.\n\n06.  At the beginning of the show, a young voice insists we remember the show instead of taking pictures and videos.  Okay, very cute.  At the end, the same voice returns and actually gloats at how unforgettable the show was.  RED FLAG.  Let us decide if the proceedings were memorable.   And exploit a giggling child's voice to cover up a sloppy show?  DOUBLE RED FLAG.\n\n05.  The show is redundant in the Vegas sense.  O is far superior and only a little more money.\n\n04.  You call that a romance story?  I dare you to tell it back to me.  And don't tell me to find out what the story was offline.  If it's not IN the show, it's not IN the show.\n\n03.  Americans that are new to Cirque can find Cirque productions a little -- pardon my French Canadian -- fruity.  To be fair, the men of Cirque shows typically run around in flamboyant tights and in anally retentively organized androgynous packs.  \n\nSo when Steve Wynn commissioned Dragone to create REVE without Cirque, there's this feeling he also asked Dragone to 'man up' Reve.  The evidence is all over this overly macho production, despite one clown that liked to kiss boys.  \n\nThis theory becomes likely when this massive bald muscled man appears beside our heroine.  He's twice her height and size, a dude who just fell off a tank from Mad Max.  And when he beholds our femme fatale -- with a wrestler's body language -- you have no idea if he's going to pick her up in his arms OR tear her into shreds.  \n\nSo the feminine side of Cirque was oddly removed from REVE, which makes the entire notion of it being romantic even more absurd.  This was an attempt at macho bad @$$ Cirque, which falls as flat on its face as gourmet Taco Bell.\n\n02.  Cirque shows, or in this case, Cirque-ish shows are best when you leave the show wanting to see it again soon.  In the case of Beatles LOVE, you might want to see it tomorrow.  O and Mystere warrant a return in a couple of years.  KA is a pleasant misfire and almost worth seeing once.  LE REVE is a \""Could I have my money back please?\"".  It's that disappointing.\n\n01.  You're reading this and wondering why my rating is so low and others are so high.  You want to ignore me.  You fear you could miss something amazing.  I frankly can't tell you why many of the other reviewers are going ga-ga.  They are either plants on Yelp to sell Reve tickets, or they haven't seen 'O'. \n\n(UPDATE:  It turns out that Cirque's VIVA ELVIS is such a misfire that they're retooling it with more acrobatics from a recently close Cirque show called ZED.  This tells me that LE REVE could retool as well.  I'd rework the show to Madonna music.  But that's just me.)