Jack Quaid and Amber Midthunder were among the actors who attended the Los Angeles premiere of "Novocaine" on Monday.

Novocaine could have been written by a 12-year-old, and I’m not sure I mean that pejoratively. It’s a riff on superhero stories, but it’s been thought up with a whiff of dopey plausibility: The film’s protagonist,

Novocaine” arrives with one bag of good news, and one bag that should’ve packed a little lighter on the ultraviolence.