Heaven Scent
Heaven Scent
| 31 March 1956 (USA)
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On the French Riviera, a female cat is frightened by sudden outbursts of barking by every dog around her. So, to scare them away, she paints her back with a white stripe like that of a skunk. But she doesn't receive the peace she'd expected, because Pepé Le Pew, the amorous French skunk, sees her, thinks she's a girl skunk, and pursues her.

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StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Edgar Allan Pooh . . . 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.
utgard14 Pretty typical Pepé Le Pew short. Certainly not bad but nothing that special. Pepé is once again in love with a black cat that has a white stripe painted down her back. The cat does everything she can to get away from the amorous skunk but he's always one step ahead of her. If you've seen one Pepé cartoon, you know what to expect here. There's the accent, the fourth-wall breaking, the innuendos, the puns, and the little adorable hop that he does. The animation is very nice and colorful. Playful music from Milt Franklyn. Great voice work from Mel Blanc. It's an enjoyable cartoon short but not one of the best from Pepé (or Chuck Jones).
slymusic 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?
bob the moo A cat goes out to try and buy some nice perfume for herself, but finds herself confronted by dog after dog. She flees into a nest but finds herself with a streaked of white paint on her back, attracting the attention of Pepe Le Pew.Pepe Le Pew cartoons are a strange beast. They are nearly all the same joke based around the same characters and it must be hard to keep them feeling fresh. To show that, this film is rather stale and lacks anything that made it stick out in my mind or made me laugh. The plot is the usual `cat with white paint' routine and it sticks to the formula from then on. That's not to say it isn't amusing - it is if you are happy just to accept the same cartoon replayed, but it is not fresh or sparky.Pepe is an OK character but very much a one joke one. He has a few good lines here. The cat is the usual ratty looking little puss but yet still manages to have no distinguishable character of her own!The ending is sudden and very poor but overall the short is passable and quite amusing without being laugh out loud funny. Fans of Pepe will enjoy it but it is no different from any other of his cartoons.