Nice performance. I feel people are being a bit too hard on them but then again, I haven't seen another Cirque Du Soleil performance so take it as you wish. The sets are beautiful, the woman singing has a great voice (well personally I think she does,) and the majority of acts were pretty good though I have seen similar sand art/juggling before. I think my favorite piece were the two guys running on the rotating spheres.
And yes the clowns were really annoying, almost so much so that I am thinking of downgrading this to a 3 if it wasn't for the rest of the show being pretty good (and their electric chair bit being funny.)
Maybe it is also since we were able to get cheap tickets (around 60 or so each) by going to the discount area...maybe.
Just kidding, yeah that's probably the reason.