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If you like Pepe LePew, you'll like Two Scents Worth. If you don't, not so much. I personally do like him(though he's not my favourite Looney Tunes character), much more so as when I did ten years ago. While not quite in the same vein as For Scent-imental Reasons, Scent-imental Romeo, The Cats Bah and Touche and Go, Two Scent's Worth is a very funny and charming cartoon. If you are familiar with the basic formula of the Pepe LePew cartoons or aren't fond of a series of cartoons that follow the same basic formula, then you will find that apart from the setting that there is little new and a lot of it unsurprising. Also while the beginning of Two Scent's Worth sets things up very nicely, I often find that it's when Pepe is on screen that the cartoon comes to life properly and I found that to be the case with Two Scent's Worth. However, the animation is great, very smooth and elegant which was true of almost all the Looney Tunes cartoons of this decade, and the music has much character and energy amid the lush orchestration. As with Pepe much of the humour is verbal, ten years ago it was the kind of humour that went over my head but now I admire how risqué and possibly even boundary-pushing for Looney Tunes it was. There are some really witty and ardent gems here, "Poems are made by fools like me" will make one smile but the best was "I am Pepe LePew...your lover", you will rarely find a proclamation of love more direct than that! There is still room for some visual gags, like the robber locking himself in the cell upon on sight and smell of Pepe. The love-shaped parachute idea proved to be a very charming one. The cat is a nice foil, but as always it's Pepe who steals the show. Mel Blanc does a superb job with the voices. All in all, very funny and charming, while not the best of Pepe there is plenty to like about it. 8/10 Bethany Cox

" . . . thanks to some help from her animator friends in TWO SCENTS WORTH" could be a headline from your favorite Hollywood tabloid. TWO SCENTS (not to be confused with 50 Cents) is a "Merrie Melodies" animated short released by Warner Bros. in the 1950s. Most of the classic Henry-the-Serial-Rapist-Skunk (a.k.a., "Pepe Le Pew) episodes begin with the involuntary white-striping of a black female cat (named "Penelope" in the outings set in the late 1800s) and her clone-like descendants. In TWO SCENTS WORTH, it's an Alpine village bank robber who sloshes on this dye job to create a diversion for his heist. After Pepe drives this miscreant from the scene, Penelope's descendant ends up in the seemingly immortal Pepe's clutches (not unlike her great-great-great-great-great grandma had). The initial look of fright, terror and horror playing across her face as she shakes, shivers, and squirms in the Vicegrip of Pepe's stranglehold by far out-strips any semblance of human emotions Ms. Foster was able to muster during her similarly-themed live action feature, THE ACCUSED (also from the 1900s). Warner's attitude toward the painted she-cat always has been, "Well, Sweetie, you might as well relax and enjoy your inevitable assault." The context for such a finale in TWO SCENTS WORTH perfectly anticipates Secret Agent 007 James Bond's skiing exploits. In fact, Bond's relationship with women seems to be entirely plagiarized from the School of Pepe Le Pew.

. . . "always got 'A's' in gym," but should viewers of TWO SCENT'S WORTH lend any real credence to this assertion? Academic braggarts are notoriously inaccurate when they're tooting their own trombones. Stinky Hank (or whatever his name is supposed to be) doesn't look like anyone's idea of a gym rat. Rather, he appears to be the sort of guy who'd bellyache about breaking a nail sliding into third base. One gets the feeling that he buttonholes peers at parties, boring them to death with lies about how high his IQ and SAT test scores were decades ago. Henry is sure to strike viewers as the sort of skunk who should be whacked into silence with a ten-foot pole.

"Two Scent's Worth" is as you may have guessed from the title already another old Pepe le Pew cartoon. This one is from 1955, so over 60 years old and it's another Warner Bros work directed by Chuck Jones, written as well, and the voice acting is by Mel Blanc. Both are certainly on the genius side, but these 7 minutes are not their brightest moment. This is mostly due to the main character. The way how he relentlessly pursuits the cat in disguise is not even funny for under 10 minutes. The change of locations (to the Alps) alone is not enough and the talking with the French accent gets repetitive like everything else about this one and it's not even easy to understand for somebody like me who is fluent in French. The bank robbery idea early on feels pointless too. It seems as if Pepe is really way past peak here and his movies feel basically all like the same, so one or two would have been enough, but the Oscar win launched a whole series. I give this one here a thumbs-down. Watch something else instead.