Even in our dreams, some of us wish to master the Spanish language. Now you can: Web television site Take180‘s faux trailer for Incepción, which features an intrepid Dora the Explorer trekking through dreamscapes, allows you to both experience the thrill of Christopher Nolan‘s Inception and learn Spanish words at the same time!

Video after the jump.

With only three days to go before the opening of Christopher Nolan‘s mindbender Inception – its hype having escalated to unbearable, volcanic levels — I can only feel … disgruntled at the deluge of previews Warner Bros. still smashes into my eyeballs at every turn, whether on the computer at my office, or on a TV screen at home, or on a giant building as I attempt an innocuous stroll down the street. One of the more recent trailers, though admittedly awesome, pretty much introduced every major character.

One of the Inception reviews I missed in my earlier round-up was by ComingSoon.net’s Silas Lesnick, who in the comment section is already being called the next “Armond White,” though in all honesty, Lesnick’s review of the film wasn’t entirely a pan (he graded the film a 7 out of 10).

Lesnick did scathingly write, though, that “suggesting … Inception achieves a realistic portrayal of dreams is like looking at a financial data as an artistic statement.” One of his major issues is what he considers the “mechanical coldness” of Christopher Nolan‘s dream world logic,”[treating] the mind as plot and plot alone, divorcing dreams from, say, sex or any other baser instinct.”

At a press junket last Friday, Lesnick posed the question to Nolan of why he shied away from sex, and the director offered a somewhat cryptic reply.

We can all breathe easy, but only for a few moments, before we start hyperventilating with unbearable anticipation. The review embargo for Christopher Nolan‘s Inception lifted yesterday at 6PM EST, and the critics that have weighed in are universally locked in verbal lust with the film.

If this first wave of reviews is to be believed, Inception is Nolan’s magnum opus, deftly weaving mindboggling visuals, emotional pay-off, and intricate storytelling into an intelligent sci-fi blockbuster. Though a backlash is inevitable sooner or later (Armond White?), the word seems to be that this could be the first must-see film of the year. The highlights of some of the more interesting Inception reviews, after the jump:

A tipster sends Geekosystem this enormous Inception ad currently being painted on Park Avenue in New York.

We’d like to be any of the people who get to turn the corner and see that out of the corner of their eye.

Oh Christopher Nolan, why must you tease me so? Each new trailer–exponentially greater–leaves me with my sweat-dotted face smashed against the computer screen, as I pant viciously in dog-like heat. Only about three weeks until I’m groaning loudly (in my head) at a packed theater for Inception.

Finally, with this newest tease of The Dark Knight director’s upcoming “contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind,” we get a good look at the main players and how they fit into the heist puzzle. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his crew explain the notion of stealing into dreams: the so-called “inception.” Also, more visuals of the fantastic and explosive set pieces, but also an adorable (yet nevertheless mindbending) moment at the trailer’s end between “point man” Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Ariadne (Ellen Page). Check the video in all its membrane-searing glory after the break.

Movie maestro Christopher Nolan, who in my book can never do any wrong, screened a double feature of Insomnia and The Dark Knight at the Hero Complex Film Festival in LA this past weekend. In between the two films, he was gracious enough to participate in a Q&A about his movies past, present, and future.

With all the buzz behind Inception, Batman 3, and the Superman reboot gaining traction–most recently the rumor about fan favorite Joseph Gordon-Levitt being pegged as The Riddler–I’ll take whatever words from the man himself that I can get. After the jump, check out some of the interesting tidbits:

Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming summer blockbuster Inception is kicking things off with an impressive viral campaign centered around the mysterious technique of invading the dream.

Wired was sent a mangled manual, detailing in entirely-redacted detail the process and potentialities of invading the dream environment. With exciting chapter names like “Warfare in the Dream” it’s well worth a read. You can flip through it in the slideshow below, which is replete with witty commentary.

It wouldn’t really be a viral campaign if it were explicitly explained which parts of this fabricated book are actually involved in the film. So be warned that some of the “clues” here could be Red Herrings. But we can be sure that at least some of the images and themes portrayed here will pop up in the film.

When the LA Times wrote the first in-depth piece about Inception, which they called an “existential heist flick,” we were relieved to read it — both because we’re big Christopher Nolan fans, thanks in no small part to his great job on rebooting Batman, and because, well, we didn’t really know what it was all about.

Right when we thought we’d wrapped our heads around it, the devious video editor at ScreenRant, Mike Eisenberg, just had to throw our heads for a loop. Thanks to an uncannily well-done overdub of the audio from the Inception trailer over the trailer for Toy Story 3, we, like Leonardo DiCaprio — or is that Woody? — can no longer tell fact from fiction.

Check it out:

I trust Christopher Nolan as a director, and with a cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, and Michael Caine, who could say no to Inception? The problem is that immediately after watching the trailer, I was overcome with two warring emotions. 1) An interest in the film. 2) The knowledge that I had been tricked into being interested in the film, because I still had no idea what it was about.

Thankfully, Geoff Boucher at The LA Times has revealed just enough about the movie’s plot to make the trailer more coherent and make me feel a little less like a victim of a Jedi mind trick.

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