Such a frustrating disappointment

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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.

Picked this up for a quarter when our local Video Store was selling off all his VHS tapes. Had seen it around and a fan of James Coco, so thought it would be fun. Well, was I wrong. Well to be honest, James Coco is the best thing in it. This lame comedy about a computer nerd who sells his sole to Dr. D to become a hunk is like one long SNL or SCTV comedy sketch. John Allen Nelson is nice to look at, but then so is his nerdy self Steve Levitt. It's the others around him that are hard to take when they're on screen and don't ask me what Robert Morse is doing here.I think my twenty-five cent price tag was pretty good for what it turned out to be.

Bradley works for a computer company as a programmer. His girlfriend ran off with someone else and he has been so despondent, his job is going down the drain. Magically, one night he writes a terrific new program that makes the company big money. Bradley is given many perks, including a summer off and digs at the beach. Nevertheless, Bradley is snubbed by the glamorous folks near his apartment until he makes a "deal" with a beautiful woman who claims to represent the devil, himself. Bradley will get a new body until Labor Day, a body of a hunk. And, wow, on Labor Day he can choose to make his deal with the underworld permanent or he can walk away with his old body. Bradley signs a contract and gets his new bod. Beautiful women suddenly swarm around him and endorsements come his way by the truckload. But, very worried, he goes to see a counselor to help him make sense of the situation. Can she point him in the right direction? This is a stupid movie with little to recommend it. The cast is average, the script is lousy, the costumes are poor, and the production values are very low. What more can one say or need to say? Avoid this film, it is junk. Spend your time looking for a much better romantic comedy, such as Return to Me or Kate and Leopold.

James Coco provides a tour de force as a very camp Dr. D. I can't help feeling that he was a greatly underrated actor. The world is a poorer place without him. I also enjoyed his performance in A New Leaf. The plot was, of course, far fetched, but what do you expect with Faust revisited. The movie is available on video, but i doubt if it is on DVD, and shows James Coco on the cover complete with pitchfork, pointed tail and horns, shoving "Bradley Brinkman" as it were through the looking glass, so the plot line is clear from the outset. It is of course, a redemption movie: it's all froth, but enjoyable froth which I enjoyed more on the second viewing since by then I had chance to watch the effects as well as the bikini-clad girls. Buy it!