The 80s was a wild place.
Here’s a Faustian story about a nerd who sells his immortal soul for a perfectly toned and tanned California beach bod – and hilarity ensues.
This dysmorphic B-grade bedazzler from CIP (good old Crown International Pictures) is a campy romp with a healthy helping of Me Decade yuppie ambition. But like a lot of body-swap and makeover comedies from the era, Hunk is less interested in fostering any kind of positive, long-lasting transformation. It’s more about the fantasy of not having to try very hard to succeed. The message, such as it is: you can be anything and do anything, as long as you’re someone else.
You’ll spot some of Brad Pitt’s early extras work if you don’t blink, but for most, this is pure bottom-shelf nostalgia.
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