Life is full of disappointments and the bedraggled heroine in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s sweet-yet-slight comedy has suffered her ample share.

The Wolverine (12) might have Scott Frank and Christopher McQuarrie on script duties, who between them have written Get Shorty and The Usual Suspects, but when dealing with the likes of an established superhero, you have one job and that’s to give what the audience of 12-year-old boys want: the same as the last superhero movie, only different.