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Batman V Superman is the superhero cinematic clash of the decade or at least until captain america civil war comes out with me is rich Trenholm hello we've both seen the new movie and we're going to find out what rich thinks as our resident movie critic rich batman vs superman is yeah biggest superhero clash does it deliver on that cinematic spectacle yes and no in terms of like sheer scale yeah absolutely yeah it's a huge movie with loads going on there's hugely cinematic battles and set pieces and the conflicts are likely between these towering godlike characters whether it hangs together as I can hear and whole is another as a lot of matter there's so much stuff going on in there and there's even so much set up for future movies that it's a bit of it it's a bit of a mess it's a glorious mess but it's a bit of a mess now this is the first time that we've seen this incarnation of Batman's jump played by Ben Affleck how does Ben do and what do we think of this Batman I really like batfleck actually yeah I think he does really well and one of the things that I kind of came out afterwards and I realized that I hadn't thought about the Dark Knight movies all the way through so it because it's so visually visually distinctive and Ben Affleck does such a good job of selling the kind of jaded cynical world-weary older Bruce Wayne so this is a very positive first outing for Ben Affleck straight out the gate that said this is not the Batman of your childhood it's a very very dark take on the character okay so that's interesting is this I mean this obviously superheroes enjoyed by all ages is this something that you should take kids to no no it's it's it's a very very violent movie and not just that but it's like really unremittingly unrelentingly bleak like superman and batman these characters who have been sort of fantasy figures that have the you know delighted and inspired kids for foot for like the best part of a century they're presented as these very very kind of brooding conflicted troubles and very scary characters and they only live in a very scary world where random pointless awful horrible mass destruction can happen at any time so it's a it's it's yet it's it's a very very few want to tell your kids that you know bad things happen to good people then just let Zack Snyder envelop let's take care of it for you thanks guys are doing all that parents exactly so obviously this film is going to be compared a lot to the Avengers yet Marvel's Avengers is that a fair comparison what do you think I think the problem that they have is that while Marvel took five movies to get to the Avengers to have a bunch of superheroes all in together in a shared universe DC's had to really race to get all these characters in this so there's so many co new faces and it does assume a lot of knowledge actually when you see all these random people popping in who are actually relevant to the main story I really enjoyed it as a sort of as an adult comics fan but I don't know if they've got that just the same kind of joy the Marvel movies have is it too much to ask for a bit of escapism with our capes eskape ism if you will it's pretty good all right well that's what rich thoughts but let us know what you think as well guys if you've seen it drop us a note although keep spoilers out of the comments come on don't be that guy alright thanks very much stay tuned to see now