The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
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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.
Dialogue[edit]
- Timon: Ah, Pumbaa. Look at that little guy. A chip off the old block! And you gotta know who's gonna raise him!
- 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: Girl.
- Timon and Pumbaa: [look at each other in exaggerated shock] Girl?! [Timon and Pumbaa faint] Oy.
- 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]
- Kiara: [softly] Bye.
- Kovu: [softly] Bye.
- Simba: One day, I won't be here, and I need you to carry on in my place. You are part of the great Circle of--
- Kiara: [boredly] Circle of Life. I know.
- Simba: Exactly. And you need to be careful. As future queen--
- Kiara: 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 'im in. [to Vitani, who is biting on a root] Oh, hey, Vitani! Where's little termite Kovu? The "Chosen One". [touches the root with a claw; it snaps, and Vitani tumbles backward; Nuka guffaws]
- 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.
- 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... [screams] And 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!
- Vitani: Pfft! Yeah, right. Why don't you tell that to her?
- Nuka: Yeah? Don't think I won't!
- Vitani: Oh, yeah? [laughs] Here's your chance.
- Zira: I now see the path to our glorious return to power!
- Kovu: But I don't want--
- Zira: [harshly] Hush! [softly] Hush, my little one. You must be exhausted. [sings] ♪ Sleep, my little Kovu. Let your dreams take wing. One day when you're big and strong, you will be a king. ♪
- Kovu: [smiles in embarrassment] Good night.
- Zira: Good night, my little prince. Tomorrow, your training intensifies.
- Zira: [grins deviously] You are ready! [Zira chuckles, circling a full-grown Kovu] Nice, very nice. [chuckles darkly] You have the same blackness in your soul that Scar had. What is your destiny?
- Kovu: I will avenge Scar. Take his place in the Pride Lands.
- Zira: Yes! What have I taught you?
- Kovu: Simba is the enemy.
- Zira: [emphatically] And what must you do?
- 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?
- 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!
- 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 has arrived, and is standing on the hillside behind Simba.]
- Rafiki: Hey! You! How dare you save the King's daughter?
- Simba: You saved her? Why?
- Kovu: I humbly ask to join your pride.
- Simba: [juts his head at Kovu] No! You were banished with the other Outsiders.
- 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? [Simba snarls and paces around. Nala looks hard at him.]
- Nala: Simba, you owe him your daughter's life. [Simba growls]
- Zazu: Mmm, 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. [Simba paces a few moments more, then comes to a decision.]
- Simba: Hmmm. My father's law will prevail. For now, I reserve judgment. We'll see who you really are. [Kovu smiles inwardly and looks sidelong at Kiara, who smiles back at him. Zazu turns his back on Kovu.]
- Zazu: Hmph! Riffraff. [Zazu flies off. All make their way back to Pride Rock, with Kovu walking behind Simba and growling to himself.]
- [Kiara and Kovu are looking at constellations in the night sky]
- Kovu: Didja see that? Didja see that?
- Kiara: What?
- Kovu: [chuckles] Oh, wow. Look at that!
- Kiara: What?
- Kovu: It's really pretty.
- Kiara: Oh, yeah! You're right. Oh, look. There's one that looks like a baby rabbit. See the fluffy tail?
- Kovu: Yeah... Hey! There's one that looks like two lions killing each other for a scrap of meat! [Kiara grimaces] Ah, I've never done this before.
- 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. Hm.
- Kovu: Do you think Scar is up there? [gets up and moves off] He wasn't my father, but he was still...part of me.
- Kiara: My father said there was a...a darkness in Scar that he couldn't escape.
- Kovu: Maybe there's a darkness in me, too.
- [Kiara puts her paw on Kovu's, and as they nuzzle, Simba surveys Kovu and Kiara. He looks up at the stars]
- Simba: 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, my Simba. You want so much to walk the path expected of you. Perhaps Kovu does not.
- Simba: [Simba's eyes widen] What? How do you know what...
- Nala: [chuckles] I can see them down there just as easily as you can. Get to know them and see.
- [Simba has been telling Kovu about Scar]
- Simba: Scar couldn't let go of his hate, and in the end, it destroyed him.
- 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. Oh... [lunges at Kovu] You!
- Kovu: [Zira slashes Kovu in the face] Ah! [breathes heavily]
- Zira: [Kovu looks back at Zira angrily, revealing a scar over his left eye] What have you done?
- Kovu: I didn't... I-I didn't mean to. I... It wasn't my fault. I... [steeling himself; breathes heavily] I did nothing!
- Zira: Exactly! And in doing so, you betrayed your pride. Betrayed Scar!
- Kovu: I want nothing more to do with him!
- Zira: You cannot escape it. Nuka is dead because of you!
- Kovu: [softly] No.
- Zira: You've killed your own brother!
- Kovu: No! [flees]
- Simba: [glares down at Kovu] Why have you come back?
- Kovu: Simba...I had nothing to do with--
- Simba: You don't belong here.
- Kovu: [desperately] Please. I ask your forgiveness.
- Kiara: [begging] Daddy, please. Listen to him.
- Simba: [sternly to Kiara] Silence! [turns back to face Kovu] When you first came here, you asked for judgment. And I pass it now!
- Other animals: [Kiara gasps] We don't want you! Judgment! Put him on trial! Judgment day is here! Yes! Judgment! Judgment!
- Simba: Exile!
- Kiara: No! [elephant trumpets and zebras bray] No! Kovu!
- Kiara: Father, please, reconsider.
- Simba: You will not go anywhere without an escort from now on.
- Kiara: No, that's not--
- Simba: He used you to get to me!
- 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!
- 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.
- Kiara: You will never be Mufasa! [runs off, weeping]
- [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.
- Kiara: Daddy, this has to stop.
- Zira: You're even weaker than I thought. Get out of the way!
- Kovu: You'll never hurt Kiara...or Simba. Not while I'm here. [Zira hisses]
- Simba: Stay out of this!
- Kiara: A wise king once told me, "We are one." I didn't understand him then. [smiles] Now I do.
- Simba: But, they--
- Kiara: Them? Us? Look at them. They are us. What differences do you see?
- [as both prides stand stunned in realization, the rain stops and the clouds clear; Simba smiles and nuzzles Kiara]
- Zira: Vitani, now!
- 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 mutter disgustedly. They go to stand with Simba, leaving Zira standing alone] Wha- What are- 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! Rah!
- [Zira snarls and leaps at Simba, but Kiara pushes her away, and the two lionesses tumble down the embankment]
- [last line]
- Mufasa: Well done, my son. We are one.
Voice cast[edit]
- Matthew Broderick as Simba
- Cam Clarke (singing voice)
- Neve Campbell as Kiara (young adult)
- Liz Callaway (mature singing voice)
- Michelle Horn (young)
- Charity Sanoy (young singing voice)
- Michelle Horn (young)
- Liz Callaway (mature singing voice)
- Jason Marsden as Kovu (young adult)
- Gene Miller (mature singing voice)
- Ryan O'Donohue (young)
- Gene Miller (mature singing voice)
- Suzanne Pleshette as Zira
- Moira Kelly as Nala
- Nathan Lane as Timon
- Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa
- Robert Guillaume as Rafiki
- Edward Hibbert as Zazu
- Andy Dick as Nuka
- Meredith Scott Lynn as Vitani (young adult)
- Lacey Chabert (young)
- Crysta Macalush (young singing voice)
- Lacey Chabert (young)
- James Earl Jones as Mufasa
- Jim Cummings as Scar
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- The Lion King II: Simba's Pride quotes at the Internet Movie Database
Categories:
- 1998 films
- 1990s American animated films
- Traditionally animated films
- American children's animated adventure films
- American children's animated drama films
- American children's animated musical films
- Animated coming-of-age films
- The Lion King
- Sequel films
- Disney direct-to-video animated films
- Films set in Africa