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With My Freeze Ray, I Would Stop…
- by Brian Cronin
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- 19 Comments
the time running out on Dr. Horrible, but sadly, I do not have a (working) freeze ray, so instead, I will tell you all to go to drhorrible.com and check out Joss Whedon’s musical about a would-be supervillain (Neil Patrick Harris), his egotistical superhero nemesis (Nathan Fillion) and the woman they have in common (Felicia Day).
It is a lot of fun, and for a little while longer (I think it expires today), you can check it out for free! After that, it’ll be out on DVD.






19 Comments
Cory
July 20, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Watched the whole thing after #3 came out. Super awesome tragic comedy.
BizarroBeachHead
July 20, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Man, I’m glad I heard about this today before it got taken away. This is easily the best thing Joss Whedon has ever done.
Thok
July 20, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I believe this is available fairly cheaply on iTunes as well ($1.99 for each act.)
Hopefully Joss will do future work in this universe: I’d love to see the Evil League of Evil in action. (And by Evil League of Evil, I mean Bad Horse.)
Bill Reed
July 20, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I really loved this, especially how it all comes together in the end.
The hammer is my penis.
Grico
July 20, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Yeah I felt it really got stronger as it went forward. And Nathan Fillion was hilarious throughout.
DubipR
July 20, 2008 at 7:28 pm
I’m in the minority and thinking this is decent at best. As one who disliked the Buffy musical episode (while I love musicals and the Buffy series in general, I didn’t care for it), Dr. Horrible is better than Alien Resurrection but on par with Firefly/Serenity. While I give him and the crew props for trying something completely different, its just meh…
Patrick Rennie
July 20, 2008 at 8:17 pm
The season pass on iTunes for all three acts is 3.99. Me, I want to see more of Evil Thomas Jefferson.
Jeff Holland
July 20, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Oh crap, that ended sad.
Man am I buying this, though.
MarkAndrew
July 20, 2008 at 8:49 pm
….. Bad Horse.
Graeme Burk
July 20, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I generally hate anything to do with Joss Whedon and I loved this. Neil Patrick Harris is absolutely sublime, and Nathan Fillion is brilliant. The pair of them can’t do wrong, and this proves it.
KMFPL
July 20, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I just love how Dr. Horrible kept hoping that Penny would see the true evil in his heart, and fall in love with him. Oh, and “It’s a Brand New Day, and the sun is high. The birds are singing that you’re gonna die.”
I can’t stop humming the tunes…
“That can’t be a good sound”
Two thumbs up. If only I had more thumbs, so I could give it higher praise…
Eldric IV
July 20, 2008 at 9:56 pm
The DVD is supposed to come with plenty of chewy extras.
ja-x
July 20, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Thanks for the alert.
Steve Hauk
July 21, 2008 at 4:32 am
You know how sometimes ya get a song in your head and it buzzes around up there for a week or so?
‘With my freeze-ray I would stop’ has been my soundtrack since I heard it…
Mer
July 21, 2008 at 10:13 am
You see, I was that kid in Jr. High/High School who loved her musicals so much that she wore her souvenir show t-shirts on a semi-regular basis. And then I grew up and my enthusiasm for these shows became much more muted (not to mention coming to an understanding that most of these shows I fawned over were crap) and out went the souvenir tees. I didn’t think I’d ever wear one again. And then I watched this and someone somewhere linked to a site where you can get your hammer emblem, Captain Hammer and Dr. Horrible t-shirts. Yup, I ordered one.
Kelson @ Speed Force
July 21, 2008 at 10:30 am
I actually liked act 2 best. I felt that act 3 fizzled a little. I mean, yeah, the resolutions for Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer were fitting, but — I don’t know how to really say this, but it felt more depressing than tragic, if that makes sense.
Stony
July 21, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Hey, that rhymes!
red-Ricky
July 22, 2008 at 1:19 am
The Pink Pummeler killed me! Bwah-ha-ha!
Anyways, thanks for the heads up. I still wasn’t able to catch it the official site, but it’s okay, I found it on WhedonTube.com.
Hope this works…
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
todd young
July 22, 2008 at 2:20 pm
With My Freeze Ray, I Would Stop…this embarassing itch…