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 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: [shocked] Girl?! [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--
- Kiara: Circle of Life, I know.
- Simba: Exactly. And you need to be careful. As future Queen--
- 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]
- 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... 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: [scoffs] Yeah, right. Why don't ya tell that to her?
- Nuka: Yeah? Don't think I won't!
- Vitani: Oh, yeah? [chuckles] Here's your chance.
- Zira: I now see the path to our glorious return to power!
- 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. ♪
- 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?
- 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: [darkly smiling] 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: Hey! You! How dare you save the King's daughter?
- Simba: You saved her? Why?
- Kovu: I humbly ask to join your pride.
- Simba: [immediately] 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?
- [Kiara and Kovu are looking at constellations in the night sky]
- Kovu: See that? See that? Look at that! It's really pretty.
- Kiara: What? Oh yeah! Um-- 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] Ohh, 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.
- Kovu: Do you think Scar is up there? [gets up and moves off] No one here thinks he's very great... do they?
- Kiara: My father said there was 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 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.
- 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. [turns to Kovu] You! [slashes her son] What have you done?
- Kovu: I-I-I didn't mean to... It wasn't my fault, I... [snarls] 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: No.
- Zira: You've killed your own brother!
- Kovu: NO! [flees]
- Simba: [angrily] 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 Kovu] When you first came here, you asked for judgment, and I pass it now.
- Other animals: Judgement! We don't want you! Put him on trial! Judgement Day is here! Yes! Judgement! Judgement! Your day is--
- Simba: Exile!
- Kiara: [as the animals roar in approval] No! 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: [scoffs] Ha!
- 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? (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!
- 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 line]
- Mufasa: Well done, my son. We are one.
Voice cast[edit]
- Matthew Broderick as Simba
- Cam Clarke as Simba (singing voice)
- Neve Campbell as Kiara (young adult)
- Liz Callaway as Kiara (mature singing voice)
- Michelle Horn as Kiara (young)
- Charity Sanoy as Kiara (young singing voice)
- Michelle Horn as Kiara (young)
- Liz Callaway as Kiara (mature singing voice)
- Jason Marsden as Kovu (young adult)
- Gene Miller as Kovu (mature singing voice)
- Ryan O'Donohue as Kovu (young)
- Gene Miller as Kovu (mature singing voice)
- Suzanne Pleshette as Zira
- Moira Kelly as Nala
- Andy Dick as Nuka
- Nathan Lane as Timon
- Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa
- Robert Guillaume as Rafiki
- Jennifer Lien as Vitani (young adult)
- Lacey Chabert as Vitani (young)
- Crysta Macalush as Vitani (young singing voice)
- Lacey Chabert as Vitani (young)
- Edward Hibbert as Zazu
- James Earl Jones as Mufasa's Ghost
- Jim Cummings as Scar
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- The Lion King II: Simba's Pride quotes at the Internet Movie Database