I went to see Batman vs. Superman with little to no prior knowledge. I hadn’t seen any Batman movies except that one with Bane.

So all of my Batman knowledge comes from the Starkid show, Holy Musical B@tman (check it out, it's brilliant).

I saw Man of Steel, but I kind of zoned out about five minutes into the battle that seemed to take up the second half of its run time.

And I only knew the name Lex Luthor because I watched an episode of Smallville with my sister back in 2008.

So don’t expect this movie review to talk about any comic inaccuracies or plot holes. This review will be looking at this film as strictly that: a film. And on that note, I loved it. Seriously. It kept me engaged and guessing.

Don’t get me wrong, this movie wasn’t groundbreaking or particularly out of the box. They stayed very much within the box in regards to superhero movie clichés (I’m looking at you, superhero landing).

But beyond that, let’s talk about some of my favorite parts.

The movie opens with a young Bruce Wayne running through a forest, away from his parents' funeral. I thought this scene was done beautifully. They overlaid scenes from Thomas and Martha Wayne’s murder with young Bruce running away and tripping and crying in such a dizzying way that the audience got a real taste of Bruce’s confusion and fear and despair.

He keeps running until he falls down a well, which is a classic symbol (hello symbolism, I love it) of a fall from grace. It was the moment Bruce Wayne lost his childhood. The moment I knew that Zack Snyder put a lot of care into the undercurrent of this movie is when Bruce lands on the bed of leaves at the bottom of the well, and one of his mother’s pearls that broke when the gun went off and killed her, lands right next to him. Physically and chronologically impossible, but a well done emphasis on his lost childhood. In the well, he is attacked by a swarm of bats, which proceed to lift him up out of the well in a very Christ-like rebirth. Yeah, there’s plenty of God and religion talk in this movie. Lex Luthor says, maybe too many times, that a fight between Batman and Superman is representative of man versus god.

So then the majority of the film happens, and here’s a quick synopsis:

Batman gets pissed that Superman destroyed, like, a whole city, which is reasonable to me, considering that was my issue with Man of Steel -- you can’t just level Metropolis and then go home and make out with Lois in the bathtub -- nah man, join a cleanup crew.

Superman gets a lot of heat from some political figures because he keeps killing people to save innocent lives. (Metropolis doesn’t want an alien in their midst -- hmm.. maybe they should deport him?) But don’t worry, we later find out that he was set up -- oh, no. And he was set up by a crazy genius who started acting more and more like (cough) the Joker (cough).

I mean... c'mon.

So, then there’s a crap ton of explosions and fights and Batman uses so many tracking devices, there are some cool cameos from the rest of the Justice League (hello sequel), and Lex Luthor just screws everything up, as the villain should.

But let’s skip to the end and to my second favorite part (and the reason that I think this movie should’ve been released on Mother’s Day). While Batman and Superman are duking it out for what seems like no reason, (I really just couldn’t keep track of who the good guy was and who the bad guy was -- it was like when you watch two sports teams play each other and you don’t really care who wins so you kind of just root for the one with more points… that’s what Batman vs Superman was for me) it’s one little word that stops the man in black from killing the man in blue. Martha.

The second that Clark Kent tells Bruce Wayne that his mother Martha is in danger, young Bruce crawls out of Batman’s harsh exterior and realizes he has a chance to do what he couldn’t all those years ago: save his mother, or at least a mother. This name drop makes Batman realize that Superman isn’t just this alien god with no regard for humanity -- Superman has humanity, and they share a common thread: a mother named Martha. It makes him remember why he actually became Batman in the first place, and he realizes that Superman is not this massive threat that he painted him to be.

I don’t care about inaccuracies or plot holes or die hard comic fans that may be mad about how this fight panned out -- I’m just happy that a mother finally became the reason two heroes come together to save the world, not just some girl with high heels and really good hair. Your mother is the most important woman in your life -- remember that, boys. And with that, I highly recommend you see this movie.