2. It’s Just Really Dumb

MAJOR SPOILERS AGAIN, MOVE ALONG, MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

So let’s talk about the turning point in this movie, the one where our two characters learn to work together. Do you know what it is?

As Batman is about to murder Superman, upping his body count to at least five people, if not more, that hour, Superman chokes out his mother’s name, “Martha” and Batman recoils in confusion because…HIS MOM’S NAME IS MARTHA, TOO.

This is what we in the comics criticism community refer to as “dumb”.

And yeah, you heard me right, the flashpoint to the unification of these two characters is basically “What’d you just say about my mom?” But the whole movie is like that.

Lex Luthor knows things he has no way of knowing, as does Superman, as does Batman. People just happen to find things through convenience and the film is permeated by an overall layer of dumb.

Some fanboys have accused critics of not being “smart enough” for the movie, which makes me laugh. You’d have to be a meerkat dropped at birth for this movie to be too intelligent for you.

It’s ok if you like it, I myself like a lot of stupid things, but this is by no means a smart movie. It’s a very dumb movie. It’s not the dumbest superhero movie out there, but it ain’t Winter Soldier, either, if y’know what I mean.