Beginning a little while after the original ''Lady and the Tramp'', the story revolves around their mischievous young pup Scamp, who always ends up in the doghouse. Scamp intends to live the life of a wild dog, to his father's dismay. One day, while in the doghouse (both literally and figuratively), Scamp breaks free from his chain, and chases after other wild dogs. He meets a lovely, but reluctant stray dog named Angel (roughly Scamp's age, of course), who introduces him to the Junkyard Dogs , led by streetwise Buster.
Though Buster seems to take a liking to Scamp, he refuses to allow Scamp into the gang until he proves he's "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. During his adventures with the Junkyard Dogs, Scamp finds himself torn between a world of adventure and the love for the family he left behind.
Many of the original characters make a return.
- : Scamp's father, the memorable street dog from ''Lady and The Tramp''.
- : Scamp's mother, the star of the Disney classic ''Lady and The Tramp''.
- : The star of the movie, Scamp is Lady and Tramp's rambunctious (only) son. As indicated in the movie, he takes after his father. The main exception to this is that unlike Tramp, Scamp is as helpless on the streets as they come.
- : A Scottish Terrier (with the accent to prove it). He and Trusty are constant companions.
- : A Bloodhound with a mostly dead sense of smell.
- , '''Darling''', and '''Junior''': The main humans in the film.
- : Yes, she's back too. And unfortunately, she's still got the twin terrors: '''Si''' and '''Am'''.
New characters include:
- : A pretty, young pup about Scamp's age. She is the youngest of the Junkyard Dogs. She clearly has strong feelings for Scamp, although she sometimes conceals these. Resembles a Pomeranian .
- : The streetwise leader of the Junkyard Dogs, he delusionally believes Angel is his girl. Buster is is egotistical and intolerant of housedogs. He ''used'' to be friends with Tramp. He resembles a Rottweiler.
- : The only female Junkyard Dog besides Angel. She resembles an Afghan hound, albeit one that hasn't been bathed or brushed in a long time. Apparently she used to know Tramp, whom she refers to as, "The one that got away- got away from me at least."
- : One of the Junkyard Dogs. Plagued by fleas (big surprise).
- : This Junkyard Dog's name most likely stems from his younger days, since he seems to have little spark left.
- : Probably the smallest of the Junkyard Dogs (even smaller than Angel, it seems). Resembles a Boston Terrier .
- : A sheepdog, by all appearances. Mooch is the Junkyard Dogs' resident dummy and Battering Ram .
This movie was first relesed February 27 , 2001 . {Link without Title}
It is due for re-release June 20 , 2006 . {Link without Title}
Sccott Wolf - Scamp (spoken)
Roger Bart - Scamp (singing)
Alyssa Milano - Angel (spoken)
Jeff Bennett - Tramp, Jock, Trusty, Dogcatcher (talk about variety!)
Jodi Benson - Lady
Chaz Palminteri - Buster (spoken)
Jess Harnell - Buster (singing)
Catyh Moriarty - Ruby
Jim Cummings - Tony
- 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 .
- 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.
- Buster's cropped tail and resemblance to a purebred Rottwieler seem to clash with his streetdog lifestyle. At least one viewer has suggested that Buster may be a former pit-fighter, which would also explain his hatred for human and housedog alike.
- The story of ''Scamp's Adventure'' is very similar to the famous story of The Prodigal Son. A son runs off bored with home life, seeking fun and adventure, but when the chips are down, he is betrayed by fair-weather friends. Ultimately, he returns to his family.
- When Jock is berating Trusty over the bloodhound's lack of sucess, it sounds at first as if he says, "By flying pigs an' wildebeasts." However, the subtitles reveal that he is saying, "Five flying pigs, a wildebeast..." Obviously Trusty could only have found a wildebeast at the zoo. But where on earth did he find ''any'' flying pigs, letalone ''five?''
- In the first movie (and in this one, too) Tramp never seems to use Lady's regular name. He calls her by a nickname he came up with- "Pidgeon" (or "Pidge" for short). Similarly, Angel has a nickname for Scamp which she uses more or less interchangeably with his real name. But while no one can say for sure where Tramp came up with "Pidgeon," it's pretty obvious why Angel often adresses Scamp affectionately as "Tenderfoot." She also calls him "housepet" once or twice, but then so do the other Junkyard Dogs.
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. For instance:
- 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. Buster uses it as his throne (he calls himself "King of The Junkyard"), perhaps because it gives him a feeling of superiority, sitting in the driver's seat of the very wagon which once held the famous Tramp prisoner.
- Buster refers (albeit sarcastically) to Scamp's collar and tags as a "badge of respectability." This echos the scene in the first movie when Jock spoke of collars and liscences as a "badge of faith and respectability." Ironically the characters involved between the two movies couldn't be more different.
- 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 that seem to be 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 almost as if they had been using a map- 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. Well, ''almost'' the same- their table manners are a bit different. The animators had a hard time deciding how to handle the scene without making it a cliche. So finally they decided to give it the "puppy treatment." And it would be difficult to claim they didn't do a good job. Aside from the new treatment of the scene, The "set" here was especially well-duplicated- 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.
- 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. However, some viewers have spotted apparent flaws in this scene).
- 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," as one might say. 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 (naturally) and Angel (what, like ''she'd'' miss out on the action?).
- At one point, while he is yelling at Trusty, 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.
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