The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride is a 1998 direct-to-video film released by the Walt Disney Company on October 27, 1998, as a sequel to the 1994 film The Lion King. It premiered a year after the Broadway musical with same name began its production. The film centers around Simba's daughter, Kiara, who falls in love with Kovu, a male lion who was raised in a pride of Scar's followers, who are Simba's enemies. Desperate to be together, they must overcome the two obstacles that are keeping them apart: Simba and Kovu's mother, Zira.

Simba[edit]

[to Kiara jokingly playing with her] Where do you think you're going in such a hurry? [picks Kiara up with his paw, and puts her under him]

That's like saying you don't want to be a lion. It's in your blood... as I am. We are part of each other.

[sternly] Kiara... I don't want you talking with him. [softening] I want to talk with him.

Kovu, I was wrong. You belong here. Let's go home - all of us.

Kiara[edit]

[to Timon and Pumbaa] I'm not just a princess, you know. That's only half of who I am!

[runs out of the den at Pride Rock, looks at the view of the Pridelands] Wow! [She starts to run down, but is caught by Simba just in time]

(to Simba, after he banishes Kovu) YOU WILL NEVER BE MUFASA!!

(to Simba, after Zira's death) Daddy... I tried.

Kovu[edit]

I'm sorry, Mother! She didn't seem so bad.

He wasn't my father, but he was still... part of me.

[talking to himself] Okay, I have to tell her today. Oh, where do I start? "Kiara, Zira had a plot, and I was part of it, but I don't want to be... because... it's because I love you." [exhales] She'll never believe me but I'm gonna try.

Zira[edit]

These lands belonged to Scar!

Oh no, Simba. We have barely begun. [looks down at Kiara and chuckles wickedly]

Simba is injured and weak. Now is the time to attack! We shall take his entire kingdom, BY FORCE!

[last words] I'll never let it go! This is for you, Scar!

Timon[edit]

Pumbaa, let me define, BABYSITTING!!

Timon, Pumbaa. Great! Now that we all know each other, GET OUT OF OUR PRIDELANDS!!

Boy, does she need a hobby!

Pfft! That's not a king. That's a fuzzy maraca!

I never even really met your tyrant. I mean, uh, Scar! Scar, oh, heck of a guy! A little moody, but I--

[rehearsing the confession to Simba] All right, let's see. Uh, "Gee Simba! The good news is, we found your daughter. The bad news is, we dropped the warthog on her. Is there a problem with that?"

[cocks Pumbaa's tail] Don't anybody move! This thing's loaded! I'll let ya have it! [the enemy lionesses all shriek and turn tail, fleeing over the horizon] Yeah! Yeah... talk about your winds of war!

Pumbaa[edit]

Don't worry, Kiara. Uncle Pumbaa's coming! [throws himself into the pond, soaking Timon]

I thought our motto was "Hakuna Matata".

Others[edit]

Rafiki: [chuckling] It is a girl.

Timon and Pumbaa: [Rafiki reveals Kiara is a girl.] GIRL?!? OY!! [They faint.]

Rafiki: Kovu...Kiara...together? This is the plan? [to the sky, talking to Mufasa] ARE YOU CRAZY?!? This will never work! Oh, Mufasa. You've been up there too long! Your head is in the clouds! [wind blows hard at Rafiki] Okay, okay, okay! Okay! ALL RIGHT, OKAY! ...I don't think this is gonna work, but I trust you. I just hope you know what you are doing!

Adult Vitani: Where's your pretty daughter, Nala?

Nuka: Roasty toasty princess… roasty toasty princess! [finishes lighting the grass on fire (in a circle around him) and jumps in excitement, but then pauses] Hey, is it hot here or is that just me? [realizes he's surrounded by fire] FIRE!!! YOWWW!!!

Scar: [latches Simba's upper foreleg with his claws] Gotcha! Trust me?

Zazu: Mmmm, yes, sire. Clearly we are in his debt... and royal protocol demands that all debts be paid. Though in this case, you might want to make an exception.

Mufasa: [last lines] Well done, my son. [Simba smiles and feels Mufasa's breeze and Rafiki nods] We are one.

Dialogue[edit]

[First lines of the movie: Kiara is presented to the gathered animals of the Pride Lands]

Timon: Ah, Pumbaa — look at that little guy. A chip off the old block! And you gotta know who's going to raise 'im.

Pumbaa: His parents?

Timon: Okay, sure, get technical. But who's gonna teach him the really important stuff? Like how to belch... [belches] ...and dig for grubs? I'm telling ya, buddy, it's gonna be like old times. You, me, and the little guy!

Rafiki: [laughs] It is a girl.

Timon: [obliviously] Girl.

Timon and Pumbaa: GIRL?! Oi! [they faint]

Simba: You know the penalty for returning to the Pride Lands.

Zira: But the child does not! However... if you need your pound of flesh, here. [nudges a terrified Kovu over to Simba, who glares at him. Kovu shivers in fright.]

Simba: Take him and get out. We're finished here. [turns around and picks Kiara up with his mouth as he's getting ready to leave]

Zira: Oh, no, Simba, we have barely begun. [looks down at Kiara and chuckles wickedly, then turns and picks up Kovu]

[Kovu and Kiara look back at each other, sadly]

Cub Kiara: [softly] Bye.

Cub Kovu: [softly] Bye.

Simba: [after bringing Kiara from meeting Kovu in the Outlands where she isn't allowed to go to] Kiara, what did you think you were doing? You could have been killed today.

Cub Kiara: But, Daddy, I... I didn't mean to disobey--

Simba: I'm telling you this because I love you. I don't wanna lose you.

Cub Kiara: I know.

Simba: If something happened to you, I don't know what I'd do. One day I won't be here, and I need you to carry on in my place. You are part of the great--

Cub Kiara: Circle of Life, I know.

Simba: Exactly. And you need to be careful. As future Queen--

Cub Kiara: But what if I don't wanna be Queen? It's no fun.

Simba: That's like saying you don't want to be a lion. It's in your blood... as I am. We are part of each other.

Nuka: [annoyed] Kovu, Kovu, Kovu. Scar wasn't even his father. He just took him in. (He took us all in.) [to Vitani, who is biting on a root] Oh, hey, Vitani, where's little termite Kovu, our "chosen one"? [touches the root with a claw; it snaps, and Vitani tumbles backward; Nuka guffaws]

Cub Vitani: Nuka! Where's Kovu? Did you leave him out there on his own again?

Nuka: Hey, it's every lion for himself out here. [scratching himself] That little termite's gotta learn to be on his own.

Cub Vitani: Mother's gonna be mad. She told you to watch him!

Nuka: [continuing to scratch his mangy back] Oh, who cares? I should've been the chosen one! I'm the oldest... I'm the strongest... I'm the smartest-- OH, THESE TERMITES!!! [starts biting every place he can find on his body, and rolls around on the ground; Vitani watches, smirking] I could be a leader, if she'd just give me a chance!

Cub Vitani: [scoffs] Yeah, right. Why don't ya tell that to her?

Nuka: Yeah? Don't think I won't!

Cub Vitani: Oh, yeah? [chuckles] Here's your chance.

Zira: I now see the path to our glorious return to power!

Cub Kovu: But I don't want--

Zira: Hush! [softly] Hush, my little one. You must be exhausted. [singing] ♪ Sleep, my little Kovu. Let your dreams take wing. One day when you're big and strong, you will be a king. ♪

Cub Kovu: [smiles in embarrassment] Good night.

Zira: Good night, my little prince. Tomorrow, your training intensifies.

Zira: You are ready! [inspects him] Nice, very nice. [chuckles darkly] You have the same blackness in your soul that Scar had. What is your destiny?

Adult Kovu: I will avenge Scar, take his place in the Pride Lands.

Zira: Yes. What have I taught you?

Adult Kovu: Simba is the enemy.

Zira: [darkly smiling] And what must you do?

Adult Kovu: I must kill him!

Timon: Tango-Charlie-Alpha. What's your position?

Pumbaa: Uh... upright, head turned slightly to the left, tail erect.

Timon: [under his breath] Why do I bother?

Adult Kiara: Father, how could you break your promise?

Simba: It's a good thing I did. I almost lost you. No more hunts for you; not ever!

Adult Kiara: But I was doing just fine! Even before Kovu--

Simba: Kovu?

[Simba and Kovu roar at each other]

Nala: [surprised at his ferocity] Simba?

Rafiki: Hey! You! How dare you save the King's daughter!

Simba: You saved her? Why?

Adult Kovu: I humbly ask to join your pride.

Simba: [immediately] No. You were banished with the other Outsiders.

Adult Kovu: I have left the Outsiders. I'm a rogue. Judge me now, for what I am. Or am I to be blamed for a crime I didn't commit?

[Kiara and Kovu are looking at constellations in the night sky]

Adult Kovu: See that? See that? Look at that! It's really pretty.

Adult Kiara: What? Oh yeah! Um-- look, there's one that looks like a baby rabbit. See the fluffy tail?

Adult Kovu: Yeah... hey! There's one that looks like two lions killing each other for a scrap of meat. [Kiara grimaces] Ohh, I've never done this before.

Adult Kiara: Really? My father and I used to do this all the time. He says all the great Kings of the past are up there.

Adult Kovu: Do you think Scar is up there? [gets up and moves off] No one here thinks he's very great... do they?

Adult Kiara: My father said there was a darkness in Scar that he couldn't escape.

Adult Kovu: Maybe there's a darkness in me, too.

[Kiara puts her paw on Kovu's, and as they nuzzle, Simba is watching on a hill from distances away]

Simba: [calling out to Mufasa] Father... I am lost. Kovu is one of them. Scar's heir. How can I accept him?

Nala: Simba?

Simba: I was seeking counsel from the great kings.

Nala: Did they help?

Simba: [sighs] Silent as stars. My father would never--

Nala: Oh, Simba. You want so much to walk the path expected of you. Perhaps Kovu does not.

Simba: [surprised] What? How do you know what--

Nala: I can see them down there just as easily as you can. Get to know them and see. [she nuzzles under Simba's head]

[Simba has been telling Kovu about Scar]

Simba: Scar couldn't let go of his hate, and in the end, it destroyed him.

Adult Kovu: [deeply shocked] I've never heard the story of Scar that way. He truly was a killer.

Simba: [glances at the burnt plains around them] Fire is a killer. Sometimes, what's left behind can grow better than the generation before... [unearths a small plant from the dust] ...if given the chance.

[After Nuka is killed trying to pursue Simba, because Kovu let him go]

Zira: Scar... watch over my poor Nuka. [with her sorrow changed to fury, Zira turns and notices Kovu] YOU!! [she slashes him across the face, leaving a scar like the one Scar had] What have you done?

Adult Kovu: I-I-I didn't mean to... It wasn't my fault, I... [angrily snarling] I did nothing!

Zira: Exactly! And in doing so, you betrayed your pride! Betrayed Scar!

Adult Kovu: I want nothing more to do with him!

Zira: You cannot escape it! Nuka is dead because of you!

Adult Kovu: No.

Zira: You've killed your own brother!

Adult Kovu: NO!!!! [flees]

Simba: [angrily] Why have you come back?

Adult Kovu: Simba, I had nothing to do with--

Simba: You don't belong here.

Adult Kovu: [desperately] Please. I ask your forgiveness.

Adult Kiara: [begging] Daddy, please, listen to him.

Simba: [sternly to Kiara] Silence! [turns back to Kovu] When you first came here, you asked for judgment, and I pass it now!

Animals: Judgement! We don't want you! Put him on trial! Judgement Day is here! Yes! Judgement! Judgement! Your day is--

Simba: EXILE!

Adult Kiara: NO! [All the animals roar in approval] No! Kovu!

Adult Kiara: Father, please, reconsider!

Simba: You will not go anywhere without an escort from now on.

Adult Kiara: No, that's not--

Simba: He used you to get to me!

Adult Kiara: No! He loves me for me!

Simba: Because you are my daughter! You will not leave Pride Rock. You will stay where I can keep an eye on you, away from him!

Adult Kiara: You don't know him!

Simba: I know he's following in Scar's paw prints, and I must follow in my father's.

Adult Kiara: You will never be Mufasa! [runs off, weeping]

[Kovu and Kiara wrestle briefly, then catch sight of themselves in a reflection]

Adult Kovu: [smiles at Kiara] Hey, look, we are one. Let's get outta here. We'll run away together! And start a pride... all our own.

Adult Kiara: Kovu, we have to go back.

Adult Kovu: You're kidding. But we're finally together!

Adult Kiara: Our place is with our pride. If we run away, they'll be divided forever.

[The Outsiders and Simba's pride face each other across the field. When all are assembled in a standoff, Timon and Pumbaa moon the Outsiders]

Timon and Pumbaa: Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah!

Zira: It's over, Simba! I have dreamed of nothing else for years!

Timon: Boy, does she need a hobby.

Simba: Last chance, Zira: go home.

Zira: I am home! [smirks and snarls as lightning flashes and thunder claps] ATTACK!!!!

[Just as Simba and Zira are about to fight, Kiara and Kovu leap in between them]

Simba: Kiara?

Zira: Kovu! [Kovu doesn't back down] Move.

Simba: Stand aside.

Adult Kiara: Daddy, this has to stop.

Zira: You're even weaker than I thought. Get out of the way!

Adult Kovu: You'll never hurt Kiara, or Simba! Not while I'm here.

Zira: [scoffs] Ha!

Simba: Stay out of this.

Adult Kiara: A wise king once told me, "We are one." I didn't understand him then. [smiles] Now I do.

Simba: But-- they--

Adult Kiara: Them...us. Look at them...they are us. What differences do you see? (Aren't we all part of the Circle of Life?)

[As both prides stand stunned in realization, the rain stops and the clouds clear; Simba smiles and nuzzles Kiara]

Zira: Vitani! Now!

Adult Vitani: No, mother! [faces Kiara then back to Zira] Kiara's right. [walks to join Simba's pride] Enough.

Zira: If you will not fight... then you will die as well. [the other Outsiders, disgusted by Zira's words, also go to stand with Simba, leaving Zira standing alone] Wh-- wha-- where are you going?! Get back here!

Simba: Let it go, Zira. It's time to put the past behind us.

Zira: [now alone] I'll never let it go! This is for you, Scar!

[Zira snarls and leaps at Simba, but Kiara pushes her away, and both start rolling down towards the river]

[last lines]

Mufasa: Well done, my son. We are one.