I resisted getting into Harry Potter for a number of years (at least 3). But now I'm hooked. The books are good clean fun, and the movies are both nifty, and as close to the books as I think a movie is realistically going to get.

This article from Slate starts out as a review of Garfield: the Movie. But it quickly veers off into a review of Garfield: the Phenomena. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but the whole thing strikes me as an attempt to damn with faint praise. Jim Davis is "scared" of white-hot success. (OK, I'm not Maureen Dowd, the full quote is "Nothing scares the man more than the backlash that's created by white-hot success.") Chris Suellentrop, t he author of the article, makes a...