It’s a reasonably different movie, but “The Roses” — an adaptation of Warren Adler’s 1981 novel, “The War of the Roses,” that hits theaters this week — has the same problem that plagues the 1989 film “The War of the Roses.”

Simply put, the flick is just such a bummer.

Like its predecessor, “The Roses” has us watch a man and a woman fall for each other and, after marrying and having kids, fall out of love and try to destroy each other, ostensibly as they fight for the house they’ve shared.

The director of the first film, Danny DeVito, had an appealing pair of stars in his “Romancing the Stone” and “Jewel of the Nile” buddies Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

“The Roses” director Jay Roach, meanwhile, has Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, two of today’s most talented actors, a

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