Growing up watching his specials my parents, wife, and I were really excited to see Copperfield. With that said, we probably would not go back. The Magic was outstanding - top notch and left our mouths open in awe, but his presentation was a huge disappointment. He always seemed to have such pizazz that you were mesmerized not only by the illusions but by his personality where you would want to just be around him. Sadly this was not the case in person. Copperfield presented as both bored and very full of himself. One point he disappeared, reappeared and gave high fives to the front row but moved his hand out of reach for our table and others, I assume because we didn't stand (though my dad is handicapped). After the finale he told everyone to stand for him. When he spoke his lines they came across as simply reciting what he memorized and he often stared down or off to the side and only smiled once or twice. On more than one occasion he would select someone from the audience with limited English and tell them to stand. When they didn't stand immediately he'd say "stand up g*ddamnit!" and had some other jokes of sexual nature that wouldn't be appropriate for kids (there were some in the audience - though it is Vegas...).
The planned out set list and tricks were outstanding and the show would have been 5 stars if David seemed like he wanted to be there and cared about his audience rather than coming across as if we should just be appreciative that he was willing to grace us with his presence.