Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
Year: 2001
Director: Darrell Rooney & Jeannine Roussel
Starring: Jeff Bennett, Alyssa Milano, Chazz Palminteri & Scott Wolf
Runtime: 69 mins
BBFC: U
Published: 28/03/22
Director: Darrell Rooney & Jeannine Roussel
Starring: Jeff Bennett, Alyssa Milano, Chazz Palminteri & Scott Wolf
Runtime: 69 mins
BBFC: U
Published: 28/03/22
So far the Disney Animated Sequels have mostly relied on films from Disney’s Renaissance Era to gain mass market appeal. They’re films that at the time were still fresh in the public consciousness and are all highly beloved, so marketing sequels (no matter how low budget or bad they are) would be extremely straightforward. The only exceptions to this were Pooh’s Grand Adventure, and The Tigger Movie; though the term sequel is somewhat loose with these films as they don’t directly follow on from the events that occur in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. So, with the Renaissance Era starting to look a little dry for sequel possibilities, Walt Disney Television Animation reached back forty-six years to take audiences back to the early twentieth century with our favourite dog duo, Lady and the Tramp.
Set two years after the events of the original film, Lady (Jodi Benson) & Tramp (Jeff Bennett) are enjoying family life with their owners Jim Dear (Nick Jameson) and Darling (Barbara Goodson), and their pups Anette, Danielle, Collette (Debi Derryberry & Kath Soucie), and Scamp (Scott Wolf).
Scamp dreams of being a wild dog, having no family or home to hold him back, and having the freedom to do whatever he wants whenever he wants to. So, when Scamp meets some junkyard dogs on the run from the law, he joins them in their outlaw lifestyle. However, Scamp soon realises that being a part of a family has its own benefits and securities, something that a junkyard dog can never have.
Set two years after the events of the original film, Lady (Jodi Benson) & Tramp (Jeff Bennett) are enjoying family life with their owners Jim Dear (Nick Jameson) and Darling (Barbara Goodson), and their pups Anette, Danielle, Collette (Debi Derryberry & Kath Soucie), and Scamp (Scott Wolf).
Scamp dreams of being a wild dog, having no family or home to hold him back, and having the freedom to do whatever he wants whenever he wants to. So, when Scamp meets some junkyard dogs on the run from the law, he joins them in their outlaw lifestyle. However, Scamp soon realises that being a part of a family has its own benefits and securities, something that a junkyard dog can never have.
I think there’s a good reason why for forty-six years nobody had bothered to make a sequel to Lady and the Tramp, and it’s because it really doesn’t need one. That being said, Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure is, much like The Little Mermaid II, a safe sequel that doesn’t try particularly hard, but also doesn’t do anything to invoke rage.
It’s a typical coming of age story, child runs away from home thinking they know best, turns out they don’t, family need to rescue them. In fact, in a lot of ways, it’s the plot of Little Mermaid II all over again, but swapping out mermaids for dogs.
I would say I that I preferred Scamp’s Adventure to Little Mermaid II, but that’s mostly because I have nostalgic attachment to Scamp’s Adventure that I didn’t with Little Mermaid II. But that being said, the title Lady and the Tramp II is quite misleading, as those characters are hardly in the film. It’s very much Scamp front and centre for the whole runtime, showing his exploits with his new friends Angel (Alyssa Milano), Buster (Chazz Palminteri), and the other junkyard dogs.
Scamp’s Adventure does look the part too. Like Little Mermaid II the film certainly has some talented artists behind it that make the film look good enough to be a full theatrical release. However it doesn’t share the same art style as the original film, which on one hand is fair enough as its been the best part of five decades since the original released, but on the other hand then makes me wonder why bother making it if you’re not going to at least try to make the film resemble the original, particularly in the character models.
Obviously due to the huge gap between releases, none of the cast return to reprise their roles for characters like Lady, Tramp, Jock & Trusty (also voiced by Jeff Bennett). Everybody delivers a good performance, but none are particularly noteworthy, and the original songs are similarly so.
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure is fine. Much like The Little Mermaid II it doesn’t do anything to make itself stand out, but it never does anything explicitly bad either. It’s the kind of film I expect many Disney fans have forgotten about, and whilst it isn’t particularly worth going out of your way to watch if you’ve never seen it before as an adult, I’m sure that kids will have a perfectly decent time with it. For a sequel that was made forty-six years later, it’s pretty much what I would expect…not really necessary and too afraid to closely align itself with its predecessor for fears of being outdated.
It’s a typical coming of age story, child runs away from home thinking they know best, turns out they don’t, family need to rescue them. In fact, in a lot of ways, it’s the plot of Little Mermaid II all over again, but swapping out mermaids for dogs.
I would say I that I preferred Scamp’s Adventure to Little Mermaid II, but that’s mostly because I have nostalgic attachment to Scamp’s Adventure that I didn’t with Little Mermaid II. But that being said, the title Lady and the Tramp II is quite misleading, as those characters are hardly in the film. It’s very much Scamp front and centre for the whole runtime, showing his exploits with his new friends Angel (Alyssa Milano), Buster (Chazz Palminteri), and the other junkyard dogs.
Scamp’s Adventure does look the part too. Like Little Mermaid II the film certainly has some talented artists behind it that make the film look good enough to be a full theatrical release. However it doesn’t share the same art style as the original film, which on one hand is fair enough as its been the best part of five decades since the original released, but on the other hand then makes me wonder why bother making it if you’re not going to at least try to make the film resemble the original, particularly in the character models.
Obviously due to the huge gap between releases, none of the cast return to reprise their roles for characters like Lady, Tramp, Jock & Trusty (also voiced by Jeff Bennett). Everybody delivers a good performance, but none are particularly noteworthy, and the original songs are similarly so.
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure is fine. Much like The Little Mermaid II it doesn’t do anything to make itself stand out, but it never does anything explicitly bad either. It’s the kind of film I expect many Disney fans have forgotten about, and whilst it isn’t particularly worth going out of your way to watch if you’ve never seen it before as an adult, I’m sure that kids will have a perfectly decent time with it. For a sequel that was made forty-six years later, it’s pretty much what I would expect…not really necessary and too afraid to closely align itself with its predecessor for fears of being outdated.