Frequently fun and generally harmless, The Outcasts doesn’t bring anything new to the teen comedy, but that’s the nice thing about the sub-genre for its viewers.
In the absence of sharp writing, all the movie really has to go on is our interest in its heroes — who, happily, are a touch less generic than their surroundings.
The sentiments and the story arc are perfectly supportable, the execution? Slow, slack, humorless and lifeless. The Outcasts stops dead in its tracks at the midway point and never recovers.