Product Details

• Actors: Ariane Schnug, August Diehl, Herbert Knaup, Birgit von Rönn, Klaus Schindler
• Directors: Stefan Ruzowitzky
• Writers: Stefan Ruzowitzky
• Producers: Andrea Willson, Claudia Loewe, Jakob Claussen, Peter Engelmann, Philipp Barnett
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: German (Unknown)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: October 14, 2003
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000BXMZ4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,887 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Anatomy 2" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 'Less horror, more action', March 13, 2004

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This review is from: Anatomy 2 (DVD)

ANATOMY 2
[Anatomie 2]

(Germany - 2003)

Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Super 35)
Theatrical soundtracks: Dolby Digital / SDDS

An intern (Barnaby Metschurat) at one of Berlin's top hospitals is targeted by a charismatic doctor (Herbert Knaup) who's been conducting illegal experiments on some of his best students, involving the replacement of various muscle groups with all-powerful, synthetic substitutes. But the drugs needed to curb the various side effects are highly addictive, and lead to madness and murder...

Forged from the European success of its popular predecessor (ANATOMY [2000]), this unnecessary sequel - only tenuously linked to the previous film - is described by its makers as 'less horror, more action', and therein lies the crux of the problem. After a genuinely horrific opening sequence in which one of Knaup's former students (August Diehl) gatecrashes a swish medical gathering and leaves a trail of devastation in his wake, the movie foregoes genuine horror for a slow build-up of tension as our naive hero is first seduced by his newfound friends and then realizes their dreams of a 'master race' are no different from old-style Nazi ideology, and just as misguided and lethal.

The Gothic setting of the first film is replaced here by the faceless corridors of an ultra-modern hospital, and aside from the opening scene, there are no truly memorable set-pieces to distinguish the movie from its run-of-the-mill US counterparts. Writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky and cameraman Andreas Berger conspire to make it look as slick and stylish as possible, but it simply doesn't 'click' the way it should. Marius Rohland's bombastic music score infuses proceedings with much-needed dramatic urgency, and the acting is uniformly excellent, but the film is pretty unsatisfying as a whole. Franka Potente (THE BOURNE IDENTITY) returns from the original, making a brief cameo appearance for marquee value alone.

NB. The title 'Anatomy 2' isn't included on the print used here, and Columbia's disc provides no corresponding English subtitle when ANATOMIE 2 appears on-screen.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Run Lola Run...Run For Your Life, December 25, 2003

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L. L. Utley "cowboy905" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anatomy 2 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

German actress Franka Pontente from Run Lola Run and the first Anatomy movie is back once again, and she is still running. I enjoyed the film, athough I must admit I enjoyed the first Anatomy better. Twenty minutes into the film, I was wondering where is Franka?? I was getting a little bored before Franka appeared on-screen. She doesn't show up until later, but she is worth the wait. However, this time, she is an investigator, and not the novice student she was in the first film. The setting of the movie is a Berlin hospital, and once again, we see a medical program that has gone awry. The murder scenes are just as potent as the first movie. And as always, it was good to see Franka again, whom I think is very...very...talented. If I had to compare her to an American actress, she definitely reminds me of Clair Danes. Although the first Anatomy was better, you will still enjoy this movie and be on the edge of your seat.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Beating a dead horse, but not nearly as bad as I'd feared., December 6, 2008

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Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Lakewood, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anatomy 2 (DVD)

Anatomy 2 (Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2003)

I wasn't expecting much from Ruzowitzky's sequel to his fine Anatomy, which may be why I enjoyed it more than most people seem to have, if the ratings and reviews on IMDB are any indication. Sure, it doesn't measure up to the original, but you can't have everything.

Plot: The Anti-Hippocratic cult from the first film are still active, and are always looking for a few good men. In this case, they're after the brilliant newcomer Jo Hauser (L'Auberge Espagnole's Barnaby Metschurat), who both chafes under the school's strict adherence to procedure and has a brother with a degenerative nerve disease. Jo will do anything to cure his brother, and that's where the Anti-Hippocratics come in--they've been working on artificial muscles. Of course, there's this problem of a lack of willing guinea pigs...

There's nothing new here, but Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) is a very good director, and he's a pretty good writer, too. You may have seen it all before, but it's done here with style, and the whole artificial-muscle thing is incredibly neat. ***