Inception is the kind of pretentious perplexity in which one or two reels could be mischievously transposed, or even projected backward, and nobody would know the difference. It's pretty much what we've come to expect from summer movies in general and Christopher Nolan movies in particular, but I keep wondering: Can he do anything of more lasting value? He's got vision, but creating jigsaw puzzles nobody can figure out and using actors as puppets who say idiotic things, dwarfed by sets like sliding Tinker Toys, doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment to me Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. For once, we had a superhero who wasn't nibbling his fingernails to the quick, fretting about the rights and wrongs of blowing up bad guys and saving the world Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. Instead he plotted how fast he could slip out of his ferrous attire and slide between the sheets with an admiring hottie Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. Throughout the evolution of the series, Toy Story storytellers have put forth powerful themes in the gift- wrapping of animation Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. (This film was directed by Lee Unkrich from a particularly resonant screenplay by Michael Arndt, who wrote "Little Miss Sunshine.") Sunnyside provides a perfect place to explore some new ideas, starting with the perils of fidelity versus the benefits of emotional detachment. Woody, Buzz and the others, including a distraught Barbie, have suffered the pain of being cast off by their beloved Andy (though the facts of the case are more complex), but all of the toys at Sunnyside are castoffs and, as one of them says, no owners means no heartbreak Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. If I'm feeling just the teensiest, weensiest bit of disappointment that I can't feel more for Inception, I am at least comforted by the fact that I am absolutely going to be thinking about it endlessly for days Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. And then I'm going to see it again, in an attempt to get to that event horizon, however impossible that may be Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. I'd like to tell you just how bad Inception really is, but since it is barely even remotely lucid, no sane description is possible Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. Let's see. It opens with crashing waves on a beach Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. In the middle of a July heat wave, I wanted to jump in, but the thrill didn't last. Cut to the battered face of Leo, looking like a 14-year-old washed ashore facedown from a toy sailboat Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. He has come from another location conjured up in a dream, and is fond of muttering jabberwocky like "I am the most skilled extractor of dreams Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie." In other words, he can close his eyes, enter somebody else's dreams with his pock-marked baby face and blow up China. The excellent Marion Cotillard, who has spiraled a long way down from her Oscar-winning role as Edith Piaf, growing a wart in the center of her forehead in the bargain, is the ghost of his ex-wife Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. Leo lives in a state of guilt for her death Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. He is also a thief, plowing his way through dark kitchens waving guns with silencers to relieve locked safes of their contents Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. Living in a continual dream state, he wants only to get home to his father (Michael Caine in a walk-on of fewer than a dozen lines) and two kids, but first he must, according to the production notes, "extract valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state when the mind is at its most vulnerable Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie." To this end, Mr. Nolan works in something about the world of corporate espionage that turns Leo into an international fugitive Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. Now, Leo and his team of special "extractors" must achieve "inception"-meaning that instead of stealing dreams, they must plant some Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie. If you're still awake, you're one step ahead of me. I dozed off ages ago Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie.