Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
循规蹈矩的故事，带点儿文艺心思的配乐，我感觉这部动画的气质，也很像阿娟和阿强。
经济真的不好了啊，这么多人都收钱了？试映后的风评如此虚高，其实更造成了观影后的失落，并不是一个好的营销策略啊。更何况还被人抓到了“眯眯眼”的点（真的很致命，造型太重要了！）。怎么说呢，并没有写好舞狮文化。农村的部分，也不符合人当地现实。男女两性角色的设计依然封建。总的来说，我不知道这部片想表现什么。追求梦想？舞狮并不是这些少年的梦想，好像赚钱或变强才是。但又看不到他们在正确地努力，也就实在无法让我产生共情。整个儿就是个不，理，解。为最后那个狮头挂杆加一星吧……211229
想不到除了皮克斯还能有别的电影能让我哭这么惨…每个人都要经历成长
难看得过分了，比零几年的flash动画还土，没有逻辑人物单薄，离谱程度直追伪装学渣，以后唤醒植物人不用爱的供养应该换成雄狮少年
画面和配乐很绝，很喜欢开头细猫与结尾雄狮的呼应，不知道算不算个隐藏小彩蛋～
大雄配音的阿猫承包了我一半的笑点
但明确瑕不掩瑜与居心叵测的分野也必要。
好喜欢！中国动画终于从“工业追求”和“中洋结合”的路子外出现了一部‘正常’的动画电影。它是现实的，又是主流的；是广东地域特色的，又是全中华的。做一头不低头的雄狮，做一位内心记得鼓点的人，这两点可以与大部分的观众发生深深的共情，同时又那么纯粹，感动。
老拍这种套路化电影不累吗？人物形象非常刻板，作画也很一般，剧情别提了，老套得让人挠头，看开头我居然能摸透后续剧情？可是它为什么上8分了？！媚外的豆瓣对国产动画要求不是都高得离谱吗，所以这片子怎么上8分的？！
四星，但打个五星也不为过，广东地区大概会更亲切，景太过真实。这片应该会是十二月的黑马了吧。
标准的“孩子”成长为“大人”的故事，没有什么奇迹发生，happyending的结局背后，也铺垫了很多主人公们的努力和积累；最后一越更多的是勇气，每个人也继续回归了生活。有类似少年漫的燃、搞笑和中二，也有现实题材的落地，非常难得
有略多尬笑
每个千篇一律的日子里，都需要一种执念般的爱来支撑；
雄狮造型的真实和细节，以及故事背景的真实，你得知道就算在改革前沿，有依旧有困难伴随。前期的种种铺垫，让我觉得最后越上擎天柱，也是合情合理，是辛苦付出的结果。
在电影中，我们能看到很多现实主义内容，比如伤病、欺凌、留守儿童、农民工等。
故事比较老套，但是在某几个瞬间感觉还是要热泪盈眶了。
如监制张苗先生所说“审美要有底线，也要有创新”，这个创新很可，无滤镜真实生活。
之前因为练车已经有好几个月没去电影院了，到年底才补了这一部。说实在的，我更愿意相信这是好莱坞的一部讲中国故事的动画或是一部合拍动画，如果从这个角度来看这确实是一部好动画。然而很遗憾不是，所以我就不明白为什么非得拍成这样了。不过好歹因为今年真正的好莱坞动画都不怎么理想，我还是愿意给这个评价，但也仅仅是如此了。
一直偏好的水墨写意风，竟然在片头就惊现，对正片既有了期待也有一丝怀疑。当一只写实的猫跳到正片的脚踏车少年视角后，逐步被剧情牵动了，无论是场景还是配乐等细节，都透着浓郁的南粤之风，简单的嬉笑怒骂，泪流得稀里哗啦。即使反派的恶意有些脸谱化，贫困落后的窘境也许要退回几年才不觉浮夸，但终归是超出预期的燃呀！
没在故纸堆里挖童话，人物造型不再模仿日美漫画。
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