Tiny Fugitives

What saves “Tiny Fugitives” from the dustbin of post-Apatow mediocrity is the underlying sweetness that cuts, like a glass of Manischewitz, through all the acid.

This absconding plot is pretty thin, but the film’s constituent parts are strong, including the muscular score by Joseph Stephens, great-looking title treatments and Knoxville’s performance, which is funny, physical and surprisingly touching.

Tiny Fugitives has some sweet moments in its tale of a group of kids who decide they want to live at sleepaway camp forever, but the film doesn’t quite know what it wants to be.

Co-screenwriters Lewen and Jacob Kaplan have written some very funny lines and also inject a surprising level of sweetness into the proceedings, even making Knoxville’s character ultimately far more sympathetic and likable than he initially appears.