The Lion King II: Simba's Pride is a 1998 American direct-to-video animated film released by Walt Disney Home Video on October 27, 1998. The film is the sequel to the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King. It was later re-released as a special edition DVD on August 31, 2004. It was also re-released again on Blu-ray alongside The Lion King and The Lion King 1½. The film centers around Simba and Nala's daughter, Kiara, who falls in love with Kovu, a male lion who was raised in a pride of Scar's followers, the Outsiders. Desperate to be together, they must overcome the two obstacles... that are keeping them apart: Kovu's mother, Zira, and Simba's prejudices against the Outsiders. While the original film's plot seems to have been inspired on the Shakespearean play Hamlet, this sequel's plot is similar to another Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet. Discussion began about the possibility of a sequel to The Lion King before the first film even hit theaters.
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| Release date: | October 27, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Darrell Rooney, Rob LaDuca |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 81 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jeannine Roussel |
| Editor: | Peter Lonsdale |
| Music by: | Nick Glennie-Smith, Tina Turner |
| Screenplay by: | Flip Kobler, Cindy Marcus |
| Adapted from: | Romeo and Juliet |
| Genre: | Animation |