"Oh, wow. Look at my wrist, I have to go!"

Today were going to do something a little different. Look out, I’m reviewing… A MUSICAL!!!! Anyone that knows me knows I hate most musicals. It’s far easier to list the musicals that I like then the musicals I hate. So let’s see… I like: Burlesque, Moulin Rouge (if you want to call those musicals), Grease, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog.

            Which is our topic for this post! Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog is a mini three act musical about a super villain named Dr. Horrible and his love interest, a very sensitive and charitable girl named Penny. Dr. Horrible is played by Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother. Dr. Horrible wants to take over the world because he is sick of the “status quo”, and how the people in charge have ignored him and brushed him off for so long. Penny, the love interest, is Doc’s crush from the Laundromat he goes to. She is working on getting the city to give her a building for a homeless shelter. Captain Hammer, the hero of the city and Dr. Horrible’s arch-enemy, meets Penny during one of Horrible’s heists, is able to persuade the mayor to give Penny the building and has Penny fall for him.

This entire little play was written and filmed during the actor strike (2008), and was directed by Joss Whedon, the creator of my all-time favorite show, Firefly. If you haven’t seen Firefly, it’s on Netflix. Watch it or be a loser forever. The play goes back and forth between Dr. Horrible’s blog and (some of) the events he has schemed. It’s pretty fantastic if you ask me. The beginning of the movie/ miniseries/ play begins with Dr. Horrible sitting in front of his computer reading fan mail. One fan writes “You always say you will show her the way, who is her and does she even know you exist?” Her of course being Penny.

That sparks my favorite song from the whole play- “My Freeze Ray”. Dr. Horrible is singing to himself quietly in the Laundromat watching Penny, about if he had his Freeze Ray ready to perform, he could freeze time to think of things to say to her, and pluck up the courage to tell her how he feels about her. The whole song is light and happy, defiantly something you could imagine singing to a lover or potential lover.

The play goes on from there. I could describe it, but I feel like I wouldn’t be able to be objective and give you an over view without either giving away the end or writing out the entire script. So watch it, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog is on Netflix. Make sure you have tissues for the end.

Penny: You're not really interested in the homeless, are you?
Dr. Horrible: No, I am, but... it's a symptom. You're treating a symptom while the disease rages on, consumes the human race. The fish rots from the head, so they say. So I'm thinking, why not cut off the head?
Penny: [pause] Of the human race?
Dr. Horrible: It's not a... perfect metaphor.

Link to the IMBD:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1227926/