Hunk (1987)

To me, this movie is perfection.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Excellent but underrated film

Mild mannered Bradley Brinkman (Steve Levitt) makes a deal with the devil and has a best selling "How To" book on being a yuppie and a new hunk body (John Allen Nelson). He never thought the deal was serious and now he is trying to welsh on a deal all the while living the good life he was locked out of before.Great idea and has been done in various ways. This film has poor execution and was even made after being a Yuppie was cool.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. John Allen Nelson without his shirt in a shower.

HUNK is another low-rent piece of junk from Crown International Pictures, an uneasy comedy that offers a '80s style twist on the old Faust legend. It involves a geeky youth who doesn't have much luck with the ladies, so he turns to the Devil who transforms him into an irresistible hunk.The usual morality story plays out and even from the opening scene you can guess where this is going to end up by the climax. Up until that time we have a tale of '80s greed and excess, where physical perfection is everything and nobody seems to work or be in education. The camera lingers upon perfect flesh and a few unfunny jokes are thrown into the mix, but for the most part this is badly acted and poorly shot.James CoCo is nobody's idea of the Devil and his hammy acting really drags down his scenes. Watch it, if you must, for the sunny California beach locations; watch it for the brief Brad Pitt cameo. But don't go in expecting anything even halfway approaching a decent movie. Instead this feels like one of those lame-o NEW TWILIGHT ZONE episodes from the '80s, a one note idea padded out to feature length.

A computer nerd makes a deal with a sexy she-devil to become a muscle-bound beach hunk.Hunk shares quite a similar idea to the one later used (copied?) in Bedazzled (2000), where we have a hopeless nerd given the chance to become cool by a super-sexy she-devil, with the result that he realises that it is more important to be yourself than superficially good-looking. In that later film we had Elizabeth Hurley turn in a mind-bogglingly seductive performance, in Hunk its Deborah Shelton who is somewhat convincing as a rather hot seductress. The leading ladies certainly are very important to the success of these films but they both also feature other decent performances. In this case it is John Allen Nelson who most impresses in a role that has him play a stereotypical hunky guy while remaining nerdish at heart. It's a good comical performance that works well alongside Shelton's glamorous seductress.While I wouldn't describe this as an especially funny film, it is definitely a likable one. It is much less moronic than quite a few of the teen comedies of its day and I think it stands up fairly well. It naturally has oodles of 80's cheese as well but that is pretty much a positive detail as far as I am concerned. All-in-all, a very fun film.

This film suffered an early fate echoed in bigger-budget movies made today - that of having a very good idea choked by a mediocre script, bad casting an wretched plot design. Suffice it to say that this film fared better in our childhood memories than it did as a re-run today. One of the travesties in this film was the lack of commitment to the flow of the story demonstrated by the makers of this film. Everything falls short because of this, making the viewer not really care what happens. What we found most offensive were the pathetic special effects. Even B-grade budgets can do better. We recommend bypassing this should you ever actually come across it.