YMMV / Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure

• Accidental Aesop: Family is the most important thing; never pursue your dreams and never take risks.
• Anvilicious: This film is about how you need to stop dreaming about travelling the world and experiencing life outside the place where you grow up, because it's your duty to settle down and behave yourself. Trying to find happiness outside domestic pursuits is dangerous and will get you in trouble.
• Adorkable: Scamp is a big dork whenever he's around Angel. He tries to impress her and be like one of the junkyard dogs but always ends up embarrassing himself.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Was Buster prompted to get Scamp caught by the dogcatcher when Scamp went looking for Angel, or was he planning to do so from the moment he found out Scamp is Tramp's son, and removing his collar was for this exact reason?
  • When the dogcatcher throws Scamp into the same cage as Reggie, considering how this dogcatcher has a grudge against Scamp by that point, one has to wonder whether he was just being stupid putting Scamp in there or he was intentionally trying to get him killed.
• Anti-Climax Boss:
  • The new dogcatcher is rather easily dispatched by Angel before Tramp and Scamp can fight him properly. Truth be told, the true climax was pretty much Tramp's battle against Reggie in the cage.
  • There's also Buster, who doesn't even get a fight scene between him and the heroes. All Scamp does is trap him under a huge pile of garbage with little effort.
• Awesome Music:
  • "I Didn't Know That I Could Feel This Way", Scamp and Angel's romance ballad.
  • "Always There" sung by Scamp, Angel, and Scamp's family.
• Contested Sequel: This movie has superb animation, catchy songs, and yes, Chazz Palminteri. It was also helped by having a good deal of source material to draw from. That being said, it does have its flaws. This includes introducing a major character as the best friend/close sibling/arch enemy of a major character in the original movie, who was apparently always there ...it's just nobody ever bothered to mention they existed in any way, Lady being Demoted to Extra, Scamp himself for not being seen as very likable to some, while having a voice that doesn't seem suitable for a puppy, his siblings not getting a whole lot of screentime, or whether people like the original comics more than the movie.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Much ado is made about the harsh and miserable life Scamp is leaving his family for, but apart from the threat of the dog catcher, the strays don't seem to have it too difficult. Tramp led an absolutely charmed existence of handouts and romantic flings before meeting Lady. Indeed, if Buster hadn't been such a colossal dirtbag, Scamp probably would have had the time of his life out there — and maybe even gone on to see that "big hunk of world" Tramp spoke so glowingly of in the first movie.
• Fanon: Angel is Peg's daughter. They're both street dogs and they have a slight resemblance, namely their small size and fur colours.
• He Really Can Act: Not that anyone doubted the talents of the versatile voice actor Jeff Bennett, but for his singing part as Tramp in the song "Always There", who would have thought that he could sing that great?
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This wouldn't be the last time that Jodi Benson would voice a copper-furred dog who was the love interest to a once misunderstood grey canine and mother of a grey-furred pup who felt lost in the world that was voiced by one of the Salinger children.
  • This wouldn't be the last time that a Disney animated sequel work featured a non-human character with a beautiful singing voice named "Angel" who becomes the love interest of a title protagonist.
• Ho Yay: Buster feeling like Tramp has betrayed him and expresses his disgust towards Tramp's love Lady.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Scamp and Angel are quite popular in the Crossover Ship Fanvid community and have a tendency to get shipped with many other Disney (and non-Disney) animal characters.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Buster crosses it by leaving Scamp at the mercy of the dogcatcher. With no collar. To get back at his dad.
  • Otis crosses it when he taunts Scamp after he is thrown into the same cell as Reggie, and cracks a joke at Tramp's expense when it looks like Scamp was killed by the vicious stray.
• Memetic Molester: Buster has become one thanks to his Villainous Crush on Angel, who is, by all appearances, just a puppy, while he is obviously an adult dog.
• Popular with Furries: Both Scamp and Angel have a lot of furry fans. Buster has his fans as well, to a lesser extent.
• Questionable Casting: Some viewers found Scott Wolf's performance as Scamp rather off-putting due to Wolf being an adult voicing a puppy. At best, the youngest Wolf sounds like is a teenager.
• Squick:
  • Buster (the Big Bad) tries to win the affections of a Pomeranian named Angel... and so does Scamp. Now, Scamp's obviously a puppy, as is Angel, but Buster is an adult dog. And even if she were older, as a Pomeranian, she won't be getting very big....
  • There's also the scene where Ruby starts sniffing Scamp and he tells her to watch it, with Ruby responding that she's "getting a bad case of puppy love". Again, Ruby is an adult, and Scamp is a puppy.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Scamp's three sisters. In the film, they basically serve to be Scamp's polar opposites who turn up their noses at his rapscallion ways, when they had honest inklings of possibly interesting personalities: while Colette and Annette both fit in the preppy Girly Girl category who never understood Scamp's love of filth and desire for life beyond the security of their backyard fence, Danielle had more of a Tomboy with a Girly Streak attitude that could've made her a nice pre-adventure companion for Scamp as the two would've had more potential to be on more understanding terms with each other due to their similarities in personality and energy levels.
  • The other Junkyard Dogs outside of Angel and Buster. While Sparky mostly serves his position as Mr. Exposition concerning the tales behind Tramp's feats before he became a pet, everyone else just seems to be there for side gags and just to follow each other around for the sake of there being more than one dog occupying the junkyard.