After two days of erudite brass music and gourmet street food, the Arts and Jazz festival's climax involves half of Denton doing the "Chicken Dance" with Brave Combo.
Given the nature of the material, which comes to a climax with half of London's criminal and Secret Service personnel chasing the baffled thieves, you would expect the movie to be played as farce, or perhaps as a satire on the manners of the upper class.
In a 2010 University of Kansas study of male and female college students, 10percentt of the men confessed to feigning climax, and half of those guys said they did it because they didn't want to hurt their partner's feelings.
By the time the film reached its bizarro climax, with one half of the camp preparing for the big talent show, and the other half trying to stop a piece of falling NASA satellite from hitting the camp, I was a Wet Hot American Summer convert.
Indeed, the climax takes up half the film.
Narrowly defined, a cliffhanger is a climax cracked in half: the bomb ticks, the screen goes black.
And like its source material, this new Martyrs arrives at a shocking climax less than half-an-hour in, leaving the audience to wonder where the film might take them from there.
"Desaturated and seductive, it's a brilliantly realised environment rich with possibility and loaded with landmarks for our heroes to lark about on, right up to a terrific climax on a half-built Tower Bridge... [This is] a fun, action-packed reintroduction to Conan Doyle's classic characters".
Jerked by his strings, a chorus of traditionally dressed rustics becomes a mountingly militaristic, pistol-toting mob who decorate him with a scribbled Hitler moustache at the climax of the first half.
Its climax in the latter half brings a dizzying feeling of temporary release, or what might be better described as distraction, although it's indisputably still tinged with sadness.
