Leofwine_draca 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.

Red-Barracuda 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.

oprlvr33 Part of an 80's Teen Comedy - Back to School DVD set I just bought, it didn't look all promising, to be honest. However, I did give it the benefit. And was I ever surprised. This low-budget film has substance, and an actual plot - with actors who can actually act.I found it charming, entertaining, and funny. In fact, many areas are downright hilarious. The dialog, acting, direction, and cinematography are decent. And I loved its overall moral theme: Beauty is over-rated. The film centers on tech-geek Brad Brinkman who grows bored with his overall life, and desires severe change, especially with women. He's visited by a sexy apparition who transforms him into a total stud. And then Brad/Hunk must decide thereon if he's indefinite happy with his 'transformation'.The only downers to this were the club snobs who's performances were weak and way overdone. Otherwise this movie is 2 thumbs up.

Libratsie The absolute, hands-down worse movie I have ever seen. It is also the only film I've ever wanted to walk out of, but couldn't as someone was paying me to review it. I saw it the day it was released, and have never forgotten how bad it was. I love a bad movie, but this one was so far down, it wasn't even "bad but entertaining."