Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure

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Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
DVD cover for Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
Directed by	Darrell Rooney Jeannine Roussel
Produced by	Jeannine Roussel David W. King
Written by	Bill Motz Bob Roth
Starring	Scott Wolf Alyssa Milano Alyssa Milano Jeff Bennett Jodi Benson
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	February 18, 2001
Running time	69 min
Language	English
Preceded by	Lady and the Tramp (1955)
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Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure is a direct-to-video animated film, produced in 2001 and released on February 18, 2001 by The Walt Disney Company as a sequel to their 1955 feature film Lady and the Tramp. The story centres around Lady and Tramp's puppy Scamp and his desire to become a "wild dog". The film was produced at Walt Disney Animation Australia which has now closed.^[1]

Contents 1 Story 1.1 Meeting the Junkyard Dogs 1.2 Joining the Junkyard Dogs 1.3 Mixed and new feelings 1.4 I would give anything to have what you have 1.5 Family 2 Characters 2.1 Junkyard Dogs 2.2 Other characters 3 Music 3.1 Songs 4 Releases 5 Trivia 5.1 Double-Takes 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Story

Beginning six months after the Christmas of the original Lady and the Tramp (to be precise, July 2 the following year), the story revolves around the mischievous young puppy Scamp, who feels constrained by the rules of living in a house. Not only does Scamp look like the Tramp, but he seeks all the street wise wild dog traits of being the stray dog Tramp was. The three sisters all look like their mother Lady and take on many what Scamp calls "sissy traits of liking baths and such".

At the beginning of the film Scamp wants to play "wild dog" games with his father Tramp. Tramp wants to sleep, and suggests that Scamp should play with Junior. Junior has grown since the end of the last film and is able to talk and play with Scamp. Scamp chews up one of Jim Dear's hats, and then manages to destroy the living room while chasing a ball.

Jim Dear then seeks the only punishment left- chaining Scamp to the doghouse in a similar fashion to how Aunt Sara punished Lady in the first film. Although Jim Dear is frustrated, he sympathizes with Scamp. Lady, having been in a similar situation, asks Tramp to go talk to Scamp. Tramp takes food outside to Scamp and talks to him, but Scamp howls a lot and is taken with the idea of becoming a wild dog and doesn't listen.

[edit] Meeting the Junkyard Dogs

Scamp first spots the Junkyard Dogs taunting the dogcatcher and stealing his hat, which Scamp delights in as the dogs are not instantly reprimanded for chewing on a hat. When the hat flies into the yard and Scamp retrieves it he meets Angel, and there is a brief friendly connection between the two.

[edit] Joining the Junkyard Dogs

Scamp finds Angel in an alleyway after breaking his chain and escaping from his backyard. Picking through garbage for food Scamp tries to pretend that he is a street dog too, but obvious to Angel he is a house dog. She takes a liking to Scamp, but does not show it outright.

When Scamp finds the Junkyard he sees the dogs doing every thing he wants to do as a wild dog: Jumping on the sofa, breaking things and chewing on hats. When the Junkyard Dogs begin to howl Scamp joins in. Buster interrupts, and all except Scamp stop. Buster and the other Junkyard Dogs introduce Scamp to the rules of the Junkyard.

Though Buster seems to like Scamp, he refuses to allow Scamp into the gang until he proves that he is "Junkyard Dog material". Eager to prove he's not a house dog, and also eager to show off to Angel, Scamp agrees to take Buster's challenge: Taking a tin can from Reggie, a vicious dog living in an alleyway. Scamp succeeds in a roundabout way and Buster seems to be content with this.

[edit] Mixed and new feelings

At a park, Itchy recalls the colourful and untrue tale of Tramp, the stray dog that could never be caught. He tells of how Tramp leaped over a waterfall to escape capture and was never seen again. Buster is angered by this and says that Tramp really went off to live the "cushy" house dog life with the "Queen of the Kennel Club" Lady. Buster grows suspicious of Scamp after he scratches himself in the same way that Tramp does.

Scamp ends up in the freight yard where we first see Tramp in the first movie, in shock still that his father is the Tramp, yet still wanting to be a Junkyard Dog. Angel appears and Scamp finds out that she had five families before becoming a stray and joining the Junkyard Dogs.

Angel saves Scamp from being hit by a train, and they end up falling into a river. Angel believes that Scamp has drowned, and when she finds him alive she inadvertently expresses her feelings for him, causing her to backpedal quickly when Scamp notices.

The two, their love now blossoming, take a walk through the same park that Lady and Tramp visited in the first film. They play with fireflies in the park, following them to the alleyway next to Tony's Italian restaurant. In another reference to the first film, Tony lays out a romantic dinner spaghetti and meatballs, which the puppies wolf down eagerly in contrast to the delicate manner of Lady and Tramp. It was decided by the directors to have fun with the scene as they could not do better than the original film (see Lady and the Tramp).^[2]

After the meal the two dogs find themselves in an area Angel calls "Snob Hill", a direct repeat of Tramp's description of the area in the first film. Here Scamp is almost found by Tramp but is able to hide. However, Angel hears that they are looking for Scamp and is shocked to find out Scamp's father is the Tramp. The two dogs see Scamp's family through the window and see how upset they are at Scamp's disappearance.

[edit] I would give anything to have what you have

Scamp and Angel find that they both want what each of them has: Angel desires a family and Scamp desires the life of a stray dog. Angel suggests, similar to Tramp in the first movie, that they don't need any of it and should run away together.

Scamp, having lost his collar previously, is picked up by the dogcatcher. Depressed and alone he begins to think about how much he misses his family. The song Always There ensues, showing Lady, Tramp, Angel and Scamp's desire to be united as a family. At the end of the song Angel notices Scamp in the dogcatcher's van and goes to get help.

[edit] Family

At the pound Scamp is thrown into a cage with Reggie, the vicious dog from the alleyway. Reggie seemingly remembers Scamp and begins to attack, but Tramp arrives with Angel, after she came to tell Tramp, and rescues his son. This action places Scamp's respect back to his father Tramp and the dog catcher traps them, to be saved once again by Angel biting the dog catcher's rear end. The now reunited father and son head to the junkyard to exact revenge on Buster. Scamp retrieves his collar and Buster is trapped underneath a pile of junk. Buster seeks help, but the other Junkyard dogs see they would like families also. Tramp gets to repeat the line "that's my boy" back at Buster.

Scamp and Tramp return home, and after pleading with Jim Dear, Angel is allowed to join the family. Much of this is shown only Junior's reaction, seeking to keep her, then calls her by name after Jim Dear reluctantly accepts. As the camera pans out and the film ends, the other Junkyard Dogs (apart from Buster) are seen playing happily with their new owners.

[edit] Characters

Many of the original characters make a return.

Character	Voice actor	Singer(s)	Breed	Notes
Scamp	Scott Wolf	Roger Bart	American Cocker Spaniel-mix	Lady and Tramp's son. Protagonist of the film.
Angel	Alyssa Milano	Susan Egan	Pomeranian-mix	Member of the Junkyard Dogs. Five-time ex-housedog.
Tramp	Jeff Bennett	Jeff Bennett	Mutt	Has changed from the first film. Is now more laid-back.
Lady	Jodi Benson	Jodi Benson	American Cocker Spaniel	Now has a supporting role instead of a major role.
Buster	Chazz Palminteri	Jess Harnell	Doberman Pinscher	The leader of the Junkyard Dogs.

• Scamp adolescent at about six months old, looks like his father Tramp as a pup, very much in the rebellion stage of teenage life. Is seen pulling at every distraction during the opening, including spotting a possible grown-up version of Angel (similar dog full size) who Scamp stops to look at. He does not like rules, being told what to do, Scamp wants to be free to do what he wants, matching up to a teenage or pre-teen boy (target audience of the film).

• Angel adolescent pup who for various reasons gets let go from her families (she states five). She is street wise and feels that the Junk Yard dogs are the closest thing she has to a family. Yet she states she is not Buster's girl - (meaning in this case father figure). As Scamp is torn between being Tramp's boy and Buster's boy. Being with the junkyard dogs she has become quite grown-up for her age in comparison to Scamp. She is a strong female character to Scamp, reversing the traits of Tramp and Lady, although Scamp would never admit being the weaker one, though they both almost slip out of character at times.

• Tramp Scamp's father - known as pop by Scamp returns as a house dog with license, and has become rather lazy. Learned to follow the rules since he first fell in love with Lady and seems to have had his share of trouble between films as he is yelled at by Jim Dear when he tries to play with Scamp early in the film.^[3]

• Lady Scamp's mother - has a smaller role in the film, as mother she is seen more to favor the girls, and yell at them when needed. Yet she worries for Scamp as any mother would.

• Buster former close friend of Tramp, introduced in this film. He represents everything Scamp would like to be as an adolescent pup Scamp would like to be, yet everything that Tramp has held secret about his own past from Scamp. He is a gang leader of the Junkyard dogs by brute force, yet suffers an inferiority complex since Tramp left. Even though he is the leader, he seems ill at ease with the position, and holds a grudge against Tramp. It is not shown, but implied by the story that he was a co-leader with Tramp and can't get over the fact that Tramp would leave.

[edit] Junkyard Dogs

• Ruby: An Afghan Hound. Voiced by Cathy Moriarty.
• Scratchy: Plagued by fleas.
• Sparky: He used to know Tramp, and a tells a colourful but untrue tale of how Tramp came to leave the Junkyard Dogs. Voiced by Mickey Rooney.
• Francois: The smallest Junkyard Dog. According to the official website he is a French Bulldog. Voiced by Bronson Pinchot.
• Mooch: An Old English Sheepdog. Fairly dim-witted but enthusiastic. Voiced by Bill Fagerbakke.

[edit] Other characters

Scamp's prissy little sisters: they share the colors and look of their mother Lady. They don't seem to appreciate Scamp much until he's gone, and even then they are the last ones to start missing him. They love taking baths. Daniele - (white collar) wild hair, a little bit crazy, completely reactive. Collette - (dark blue collar) is like the princess, her reaction is how it affects her. Annette - (red collar) a mixture of both and has intellectual reaction. ^[4]

• Jock: A Scottish Terrier with a stereotypical Scottish accent. He and Trusty are constant companions. Voiced by Jeff Bennett.
• Trusty: A bloodhound with a mostly dead sense of smell and a memory to match. Voiced by Jeff Bennett.
• Jim Dear, Darling, and Junior: The main humans in the film.
• Aunt Sarah: She still has her mischievous twin Siamese cats Si and Am and still believes them to be well behaved.
• Reggie: There is only one thing the Junkyard Dogs fear: Reggie. Reggie is a large, short-tempered dog that lives in an alley. His breed a mystery, although he resembles a cross between a Mastiff and a Bulldog.

[edit] Music

The score was composed by Danny Troob. The songs were written by Melissa Manchester and Norman Gimbel.

[edit] Songs

• "Welcome Home" - performed by the chorus, Jeff Bennett, Jodi Benson, Kath Soucie, Jim Cummings, Michael Gaugh, and Debi Derryberry. This song is the opening song for the film. It sets up the theme for the entire film - independence. The sequence ends with a Broadway-style performance of various people out in a street singing and waving. This song clearly places the town somewhere in New England, where the first film it could have been anywhere in the USA.

• "World Without Fences" - performed by Roger Bart. It illustrates Scamp's desire to become a "wild dog" free from boundaries and responsibilities. Scamp is chained in the backyard. He runs around, imagining that he is not chained and is instead running through the countryside with the Junkyard Dogs. One odd part is Scamp say's there is no good way to take a bath - yet in the dream of freedom part of the song he jumps in a rainwater barrel. In one of the comic books the Tramp and his friends drink out of a barrel and Scamp said bowls are for sissys to his sisters is the only other place this fits.

• "Junkyard Society Rag" - performed by Jess Harnell, Cathy Moriarty, Bill Fagerbakke, Bronson Pinchot, Melisa Manchester, and Mickey Rooney. Buster sings about the junkyard in which the Junkyard Dogs make their home and about the life of the Junkyard Dogs, with the other Junkyard Dogs also offering their opinions. The sequence features the dogs travelling through the junkyard and interacting with their surroundings. Scamp trying to fit in, but always falling, bumping and at one point getting a fish bowl caught on his head.

• "I Didn't Know That I Could Feel This Way" - performed by Roger Bart and Susan Egan. This is the love song of the film, showing the blossoming romance between Scamp and Angel. It features the dogs walking through the same park that Lady and Tramp walked through in the first film. At the end a scene similar to the spaghetti scene from Lady and the Tramp occurs, but with Scamp and Angel wolfing down the pasta. They do this as they are puppy like, not refined like Lady was.

• "Always There" - performed by Roger Bart, Susan Egan, Jeff Bennett and Jodi Benson. Scamp realizes the importance of family and how much he misses his home. Lady and Tramp's grief over Scamp's disappearance and Angel's want for a family is highlighted. Family is the moral of the film and this song and film seek to show that we may seek to run away from our families, but should ultimately return.

• "Belle Notte (This is the Night)" - duet performed by Joy Enriquez and Carlos Ponce. An updated pop music arrangement of the song played during the credits. Original 1955 song by Sonny Burke and Peggy Lee; arrangement by Robbie Buchanan.^[5]

[edit] Releases

This movie was first released in the United States on February 27, 2001.^[6]

Disney re-released the film in the United States on June 20, 2006.^[7]

[edit] Trivia

• Following the first release of Lady and The Tramp, Scamp had a small career in comics produced by Disney. His sisters had names (other than the above) in the comics. Sometimes one of the three sisters (who always were Cocker Spaniels) would be in shades of gray.

• Scamp on chain in the dog house, Lady was in the same situations in the first movie. This movie changes with Scamp being the "house dog" and Angel the "street smart" junk yard dog. Chained to the dog house he does the Snoopy sleep on the roof of the dog house.

• Scamp wants to be part of the junk yard dogs, where Tramp actually stated in the first film that he had a different family for each day of the week, just none of them had him.

• The dog catcher in this movie is based on the Deputy Barney Fife from the Andy Griffifth Show. At one point the dog catcher states he is the "Deputy Dog Catcher".^[8]

• This movie is the first time that Tramp is the name used, not "the Tramp". In the first movie the most used name was Butch and he had several other names for each of his "families", (one for each day of the week, as Tramp states in the first movie).

• Though their names are never mentioned in the movie, Scamp's sisters do have names. Their names are Collette, Annette, and Danielle. Collette and Danielle are voiced by Kath Soucie and Annette is voiced by Debi Derryberry.

• In Lady and the Tramp, Lady was at full grown size by the time she was six months old. In Scamp's Adventure Scamp is approximately seven or eight months and still he is puppy-sized. Scamp and Angel are intended to be kids based on the making of the film and commentary.^[9]

• Joanna Romersa animation timing director for this film was a Disney Trainee for the production of the original Lady and the Tramp, invited by Jeannine and Darrell to work on this film.^[10]

• The only link found to junk or garbage from the first film is after calling the nieghborhood Lady lives in "Snob Hill", Tramp states: "and I bet there is a cover on every trash can".^[11] It is said they could not find a source on trash cans of the early 1900s..^[12]

• Reason for terms Angel being "Buster's girl" or Scamp "that's my boy" used in the film are in terms of a father to daughter and son friendship and love. The subject of the film is "family" and belonging to a family". A real family vs. the "junkyard dogs".^[13]

[edit] Double-Takes

Several "sets" were intentionally "borrowed" from Lady and the Tramp by the filmmakers, and several lines are more or less repeated from the original as well. "This was done to create a bridge between the films," according to director Darrell Rooney. They searched the archives for drawings and artwork, which was recreated with the help of computer animation.^[14] For instance:

• The room in which Scamp and his sisters are given a bath is the same room in which Jim Dear tried to put Lady to bed in the first movie.
• When he is chasing a ball through the living room, Scamp knocks a picture off the piano - the same picture taken at the end of Lady and The Tramp. This picture appears again in a later scene.
• Scamp's near-misses in the street as he runs after Angel echo Lady's frantic run through the streets after Aunt Sarah put a muzzle on her in the first movie.
• When he is trailing Angel to the Junkyard, Scamp crosses a bridge seen in the first movie when Lady and Tramp fled after being shot at by a chicken farmer.
• In the junkyard there is a mountain of trash capped by a broken old horse-drawn dogcatcher's wagon. In the filmmaker commentary on the DVD, it is stated that this wagon is the same one which Jock and Trusty wrecked in the process of rescuing Tramp at the end of the first movie. Buster uses it as his throne (he calls himself "King of The Junkyard".) It seems likely that he chose that particular object because it gave him a feeling of superiority.
• Buster refers (albeit sarcastically) to Scamp's collar and tags as a "badge of respectability." This echoes the scene in the first movie when Jock spoke of collars and licenses as a "badge of faith and respectability."
• Just like in the first movie, Trusty calls Lady "Miss Lady." His use of this term also harkens to his mostly-dead memory, since Lady is obviously no longer a "Miss", but a Mrs.
• When Trusty first hears of the news about Scamp's disappearance, he approaches Colette, Annette, and Danielle (the Lady and the Tramp's 3 daughters) and asks them if he ever told them about how he saved the Tramp from "certain death". This refers to near the end of the first film where Trusty gets run over by the dog catcher's buggy and releases the Tramp from the back of it.
• In the first movie the dogcatcher was often heard humming or whistling, "Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone." In the first scene with Reggie, the new dogcatcher shows up singing the same song, albeit in a decidedly ear-shattering tuneless version.
• When Scamp gets off the leash and meets up with Angel in the alley, he tries to play it cool saying , "good pickings," with a banana peel looking foolish - In the first movie: Tramp says to some birds "slim pickings."
• Buster refers to Lady as "Queen of the Kennel Club Set," echoing Tramp's reference to housedogs as the Kennel Club Set in Lady and The Tramp when he brought Lady a bone to cheer her up after her experience in the pound.
• In the scene when Angel confesses to Scamp that she wishes she had a family to live with, they are walking on some railroad tracks borrowed from the first movie - specifically where we first saw Tramp.
• Scamp and Angel's walk in the park follows the path Lady and Tramp took - the fountain, the bridge, even the pawprints in the cement.
• Perhaps the most obvious double take is when Scamp and Angel have spaghetti at Tony's - just like Lady and Tramp did in the original movie. The animators had a hard time deciding how to handle the scene without making it a cliché.^[15] They decided to give it the "puppy treatment." Aside from the new treatment of the scene, the "set" here was duplicated from the previous film - right down to the crate of cabbages Tramp told Lady to wait behind in the first movie while he went to talk to Tony and Joe. The time change can be seen at the change of poster right of the rear door of Tony's. In Lady and the Tramp - the Poster promotes Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Opera House in August. In this movie it promotes "Fire Works in the Park". So this scene is around a year later.
• Shortly thereafter, Scamp and Angel pass by a gate that was used by Tramp in the first movie to evade the dogcatcher. Also borrowed in this same scene was the term "snob hill" (referring to the fancy neighborhood), which was used near the gate in both movies.
• At one point, Tramp and Buster have a confrontation in what the film-makers identify as the same alley in which Tramp saved Lady from a pack of street dogs (not the Junkyard Dogs) in the first movie.
• Both movies have a scene near the end in which someone is narrowly rescued from certain doom in the pound by the timely arrival of "The Cavalry." In the first movie, It was Tramp, and the rescuers consisted of Jock and Trusty, followed shortly by Lady and her humans. In Scamp's Adventure, it is Scamp who has to be rescued, with the cavalry made up of Tramp and Angel.
• At one point, while he is complaining to Trusty about not being able to track scents, Jock reveals that they encountered a wildebeast in their search for Scamp. That probably means they passed through the zoo at some point - most likely the same zoo Lady and Tramp went to in the first movie to get Lady's muzzle removed.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• Second official Website DisneyVideos.com
• Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure at the Internet Movie Database
• Review with additional pictures Ultimate Disney.com

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