dwpollar Review of Hunk

Hunk (1987)

Lame comedy about a geek who is turned into a hunk...

[3/10 · 26 December 2020]

1st watched 12/25/2020 - (Dir-Lawrence Bassoff): Lame comedy about a geek who is turned into a hunk by a sorceress working for Satan. I'm sure this was a passion project for writer/director Lawrence Bassoff to try and make money off the perverted movie hungry teens in the late 80's, but I don't even think they would like this tame & lame PG attempt at a sex comedy. It starts with Hunk Golden, played by John Allen Nelson, explaining to a good looking female pychiatrist what has happened. The geek Bradley, played by Steve Levitt, is a computer programmer extraordinaire who is lured by a symbol on the computer to accept a proposal to turn into a hunk for a short time - where at the end he will give his soul away if he wants to stay Hunk. We are than introduced to the sorceress, who is is trying to win him so she can pay back the devil(Dr. D here), and possibly get her life back. We later find out she is embodying the psychiatrist(in a weird twist) to convince him to stay Hunk. There is pretty much non-existent sex and non-existent comedy to meet the criteria for this kind of movie. It tries to redeem itself at the end with a soul-searching ending, but by this time we are just waiting for the movie to be over. A host of older actors are pretty bad as well....aka. Avery Schreiber, Robert Morse and others, and they don't help the movie. Definetly a loser to be passed on for a lot of reasons.