Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

   While technically not a movie, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog is the best thing to hit the internet since Lolcats.  During the great writer's strike of 2007, which we all remember because for about four months everything on TV sucked, the great Joss Whedon decided "You know what?  I don't need no lousy writer's guild," and wrote something without them.
   Starring Neil Patrick Harris as the titular bumbling super-villain wanna-be, Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer, corporate tool, and Felicia Day as perhaps the most annoying love interest of all time, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog won a ton of awards and became hugely successful and popular.  To which everyone was like, "Whaaaat?" because no one had ever made a mini series exclusively available online.  Plus, it's a musical tragicomedy.  Obviously, from my previous post about Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil's Carnival, I really like musicals combined with other genres.
   Presented in three fourteen-minute acts, this mini series clocks in at less than forty-five minutes total, yet in that amount of time, the Whedon brothers (the great Joss, Zack, and Jed) were able to cram in sixteen original, funny, and tragic songs.  Harris has a wonderful singing voice and everyone else is okay.  Maybe a little above average.  I love Nathan Fillion, and his character was certainly funny, but he's not exactly a virtuoso.
   Anyway, basically Billy (Harris) wants to become a great super villain like his role model, Bad Horse (played by an actual, live horse with a terrible death whinny), but he keeps being thwarted by his nemesis, Captain Hammer.  Fillion plays a phenomenal douche bag.  Day plays their mutual love interest, Penny.  "She works with the homeless and doesn't eat meat.  We have a problem with her."  Saccharine to the point of obnoxious, one-dimensional and static, she serves only as a prop to move the plot along.
   I've heard rumors of a sequel and of course I'm super excited.  Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog gets four out of five cars thrown at its head.