Overrated

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

. . . the first being that it is one of the few "Pepe Le Pew" outings in which his female black cat mating target skunk-stripes herself ON PURPOSE, in this case to repel a horde of threatening canines making her life miserable (evidently, BEFORE she's ever encountered a REAL stinker, especially Mr. Le Pew). Most likely, everything this cat knew about skunks she learned on Wikipedia (which lacks a Smell-O-Rama key). The second deviation from standard Pepe fare is that he proposes to MARRY the white-striped cat (which would be constitute bigamy, since an earlier cartoon featured his scolding wife--an actual female skunk!--and neglected kids). This nuptial offer is bracketed by Pepe first humming, then singing a snatch of "And the Band Played On," the theme of Pepe's Warner Bros. producer's live-action feature, STRAWBERRY BLONDE, in which James Cagney plays Pepe as a failed dentist. Next, Pepe calls the cool cat a "hoo," and says to the camera that all she needs is some "occupational therapy, like making love" (that is, "Hoo-Ing") to get into his good graces. Finally, this blatantly Hyper-sexualized "kids' short" concludes with Pepe about to pursue his "hoo" into a blocked off tunnel! His last words to the camera underline the most prominent anatomical difference between males and females, and then he symbolically penetrates the tunnel, preempting director Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST climax by several years.

Directed by Chuck Jones, "Heaven Scent" is a good but not hilarious Warner Brothers cartoon starring the voice of Mel Blanc as our favorite French skunk: Pepe Le Pew. The plot of this cartoon is the same as in practically any other Pepe cartoon: boy tries to get girl, girl wants to be a mile away from boy.Any scenes in this film that make me laugh? There's the sign written in phony French, warning anyone to not touch the flagpole as it contains wet paint. The cat, disguised as a skunk, emits a smug expression and an eye blink after all the dogs run and hide, then a fisherman expresses himself (again in phony French) before escaping from the cat/skunk. Upon Pepe's first appearance, he sings "Strolling through the Park One Day", then as he catches up with his reluctant partner, he continues singing while smooching in rhythm."Heaven Scent" is okay, but my major disappointment with it is that the ending leaves a dangling thread that keeps me wanting more. Oh, well. We can't have everything, can we?

Though it is true that the same plot is used in every Pepe Le Pew cartoon, I could watch ten of them in a row and still be laughing. This is because the writing in these Pepe Le Pew cartoons is among the sharpest in cartoon history. There are a lot of great one-liners in this cartoon, as well as a lot of sexual innuendo. Pretty much the same thing that happens in every other Pepe cartoon puts together the plot in this cartoon. A cat gets a white stripe on its back, and Pepe Le Pew is under the impression that the cat is a female skunk. Pepe chases the cat around a lot, and then the cartoon ends. The ending to the cartoon seems a bit abrupt, but that does not take away from my enjoyment of the cartoon. When I was younger, I did not really care for Pepe Le Pew and often wondered why my parents were always laughing hysterically at them. Now I know. I would not recommend this cartoon nor most other Pepe cartoons to impressionable young children, but for everyone else, this is extremely funny.

This short is of interest mainly for the dialogue. There aren't many sight gags and the biggest laughs come from Pepe's lines. I have to quote one or two: Did you know that when you are in love, it is almost impossible to get insurance? But then, security isn't everything.Very funny short. Not the best of the series, which is Touche and Go, at least so far as I'm concerned, but very good and runs fairly often on Cartoon Network. Recommended.