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| - I can't frickin' believe a bunch of dudes running around with blue paint on their faces can be entertaining... but frankly, it is.
WHAT IS IT?
Without giving any of it away, there's no other way to describe this weird-assed show other than it's odd... & uniquely entertaining. There's dry sketch comedy featuring the Blue Men, there's ass-shakin' music performed by the Blue Men, there's some bizarre audience participation led by the Blue Men, there's even sort of a story that kind of explains the Blue Men.
I get the feeling the creators were on a seriously bad-assed shroom high when they came up with the idea for this show. It's sort of like a cross between the Coneheads, Monty Python, STOMP, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show. If you haven't been to this - it's a unique experience you can only get in Vegas - not to mention it's kid friendly - and it's certainly worth putting up the coin to do so.
Here's something else that ought to titillate you: The tickets are $100/seat to see men that... well... have no actual fame. It's not like this is Penn & Teller or Elton John or someone with a marquee name. You're paying top dollar to see a performance by 3 guys with blue paint on their faces... and the tickets keep selling! That should tell you something about the overall quality of the entertainment. 10+ years on the strip can't be wrong.
WHO WILL ENJOY IT? WHO WON'T?
--- GenXers and younger will go off on this, assuming they don't have a stick up their ass. Folks that enjoy eclectic & creative performances will undoubtedly find this experience a fun one. And people looking for something to talk about after the show's over will enjoy seeing Blue Man Group. 'Cuz there's a lot to talk about.
--- Older folks that prefer Glenn Miller over Glenn Fry, individuals that you frequently hear saying things like, "I didn't UNDERSTAND that performance/musical/movie/TVshow" (What's there to f-ing understand, you dumbass? It's a performance: It's supposed to be entertaining - not a doctoral discussion over the politics of Afghanistan.), people who don't like loud music with thumping beats (i.e. the whiny individuals you hear saying things like, "Owwww... why did the music have to be so louuuud?")... these people should probably pass on this show and instead go see Mamma Mia or some other lame, rehashed musical with an easily followed single-threaded storyline.
SO WHY ONLY FOUR STARS?
Very simply put, the problem is that once you've seen the show, there's no reason to see it again. It really NEVER CHANGES despite it's sketch-comedy-like performances that have no continuity with them. I'm not sure I understand that because in the case of Penn & Teller, I get about the same amount of enjoyment from watching them, but their performance sketches change from quarter to quarter so I can always go back and see something different.
Not so with Blue Man. Apparently they can't get up off their blue asses and use their blue brains to think up some new blue sketches. Seriously - you'd think that these blue folks would evolve their blue show just a little given that it's been going on for so many blue years but nope: Not a single blue element that I can see has been changed, and I've seen it 4 times for one reason or another.
CONCLUSION:
It's definitely one of those things that you should go see at least once and it'll be one of the few "4-star" reviews that'll get onto my "must see" list only because... well, it really is one of the best performances on the strip. It's just that once you see it - there's no point in ever seeing it again.
4-Stars.
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