The hunt for the pest accelerates toward the kind of climactic chase that Park fans not far removed from the thrill-tipsy audiences who crowded into early silent comedies have come to expect.
Too Hot to Handel is now a seasonal staple, and for me, it still gives me a thrill to think about audiences jumping out of their seats to groove to Handel's music.
Time was when you could give audiences a thrill simply by casting young actors in the title roles, but ever since Franco Zeffirelli filmed the sorrowful tale of the star-crossed lovers in 1968, that expedient has come to be taken for granted.