Let's be realistic.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

" . . . attractive," a frazzled Henry-the-Skunk (a.k.a., Pepe Le Pew) whines to the camera at the close of his Oscar-winning performance in FOR SCENT-IMENTAL REASONS. This animated short from Warner Bros. begins with Henry in his habitual serial rapist "Pepe" mode, wife and kids nowhere to be seen. Surprisingly, this French-accented fake is somehow in ancient France now. As always, the object of his inter-species sexual predation is a hapless animal (in this case, a female cat) who's been accidentally splashed with a white paint stripe along the lines of skunk markings. (If a similar mishap happened to "transform" a sea gull into a duck, even an amorous Daffy would wait until the painted gull waddled and quacked BEFORE concluding that it WAS a duck!) Pepe\Henry has no such compunctions. He targets the victims of his unrequited lust purely on the basis of Lookism. Female Oscar voters probably swung the statuette in favor of this particular Pepe\Henry episode because of its ending. Through another chance occurrence, Ms. Kitty simultaneously loses her skunk markings AND her sense of smell, just as Mr. Skunk is dyed an attractive shade of blue. The tables are turned for once, as Ms. Kitty heatedly pursues the now balky skunk. Hence Pepe's Complaint.

Although I will admit that most of the Pepe Le Pew films are very similar, I have always loved these cartoons. I particularly loved the Charles Boyer-inspired voice as well as the great romantic dialog.Here, as usual, a poor cat is mistaken by the perennially on the make Pepe as another skunk. Despite showing no interest in him, Pepe "doggedly" pursues her throughout the film. However, like some of the better Le Pew cartoons, by the end of the film the tables are turned. In this case, for a very fitting and funny conclusion. If you are a fan of the skunk, then this is a must-see film and one of the earliest appearances of this beloved character.PS--This film won the Oscar for Best Cartoon Short--rather surprising, isn't it?

Pepe LaPew breaks into a perfume store and a female cat is sent in to get the smelly skunk out, of course the cat finds a way to accidentally get whit paint on herself, thus looking like a female skunk. I never understood the love for Pepe LePew. He's a rather weak character, he's not that funny and he's French. That's three strikes against him from the get go. It doesn't help that in his cartoon shorts that there's really just one gag that's used over and over again. This short won an Oscar as well, big deal I can name a good number of things that aren't great at all that have won Oscars through out the years. This cartoon is on Disk 3 of the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1" It also has an optional commentary as well as a featurette. It IS uncut at leastMy Grade: C-

Up till this point the few Pepe Le Pew movies were actualy pretty boring.In this one we are introduced to his mate Penelope Cat.Pepe has broken into a perfume shop in France and the owner has the idea to sent her in to chase him away.What an idea.Once she gets a white stripe on her buck Pepe has chosen her as mate.His efforts to persuade her to join him and her own to avoid him are ecxelent comedy material.And one his scent is removed and she finaly notices how does his body look the roles are reversed.The odd couple does belong together.Too bad most of the other Pepe movies repeated this film and made it lost his uniqueness.Because it is one of the best of the Looney Toons.