Personally I enjoyed the video of Riverdance when I watched it with my kids. I was disappointed in the choral stuff, I thought it too much the same and therefore too esily predictable. There was excitement and energy in the dancing and that was communicated to the viewers. That energy is what carried Michael Flatley through two more movies of dancing and part of me envies that energy and incredibly focussed drive, but part of me admits the validity of the distractions I have and allow. Michael and I live in very different worlds with very different personal goals and abilities but we like some of the same music and that is where, and probably only where, we intersect.