Britney Spears has taken her Circus Tour to London — with disastrous results.

The top-selling tour is being panned all over the UK following Spears’ opening show at the British capital’s O2 Arena on Wednesday.

“The costumes are pretty skimpy and there’s nowhere the set designers haven’t contrived to put a pole for her to gyrate around,” ripped one critic for British newspaper The Guardian. “And yet there’s something unsexy about all of it, possibly because there’s something weirdly characterless about the woman at its centre: you’d happily trade some of the special effects for the sense of Spears actually engaging with her audience rather than slickly going through the motions.”