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".
这才是最真实，最原汁原味的中国电影！
本片是弘扬打工文化的一部力作。男主父母为了打工，宁肯四年时间一次也不回距离广州不到60公里的老家，让亲生儿子成为留守儿童也在所不惜。逼的男主为了引起父母关注不得不参加舞狮活动，展现顾工地大家不顾小家的打工精神。之后男主父亲更是在工地摔成植物人的情况下，也不向打工企业要工伤赔偿，而是由男主放弃舞狮去打工赚钱治病，可谓将任劳任怨的打工文化薪火相传。最后结局彩蛋更是让男主哪怕取得舞狮大赛冠军，也仍然义无反顾的抛下一切，到离家乡更远的上海继续打工，将万事皆空，唯有打工的主题彻底升华了。
人物建模过于难看导致无法入戏，先不说只练习一两个月加上打工的时候抽空练习就能打败功力深厚的老选手们，告诉你只要努力一下子就可以成为顶峰有多么的成人童话，但是你最起码让我把这个梦好好做完啊，舞狮前两名然后主角的选择还是去工地搬砖不正是说明了传统文化已经没落连饭都吃不起，看个电影这么致郁至于吗
最感触的瞬间是阿娟对佛祖说自己许错了愿望的一幕，没实现过愿望的人会觉得所有的错都是自己的。温暖励志的电影有很多，但只有展现出足够真实的痛苦，最后迸发出的精神才会有重量。
“那头雄狮冲上去了，但我没有…也幸好没有”
内地难得的现实主义题材动画！技术过硬，场景渲染细腻，动作设计流畅，光影运用纯熟，人物造型不网红，既有辨识度又可爱，阿娟的平头很帅啊！音乐加分，五条人和九连真人首尾呼应、恰到好处，唢呐一起，立马嗨！故事虽然是看似老套的燃炸热血少年励志，但底色落在现实中，不悬浮，没有盲目煽情，比较克制！尤其是片尾阿娟掉入水中以及彩蛋都非常重要！生活需要一点点小奇迹，就像那束穿过高楼大厦的阳光，它可以支撑普通而平凡的人们继续脚踏实地，与命运抗争！个人感觉非常适合内地选送去参加奥斯卡外语片。（毕竟哪吒也选过）五星鼓励！Ps：还好今天下午看了，晚上全城电影院就因为疫情关闭了。💔(;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)
我们看到的是少年，我们欢喜狮头挂上擎天柱，容易忘记的是后面站得更远一些的阿强，那个阿娟长大后成为的阿强，以及更远处的阿珍。
虽然很套路，但是很燃啊！结尾太加分了，我无法创造奇迹，但是拦不住我无限接近奇迹！
硬伤主要是台词设计，经常忽然飙出那些“气势万丈”的励志性语言是不自然的，包括其他舞狮队里的人的“恶”，都是有些违和的。直到男主父亲因为受伤突然回家，终于转向了一个更真实心酸的中国故事，那些在工厂工地里封闭着没有钟点干活的青少年，小时候是村里老人带的留守儿童，十几岁就要出去打工挣钱了，片中设定男主十八岁出门，实际上在两千零几年那个时间有很多未成年冒充成年进了工厂。最难得的就是这点吧，男主做了舞狮英雄，最终还是要进入残酷的现实社会，有好感的城里女生也不会因此和你一个打工仔在一起，只有美国动画才有那样“完美”的个人英雄主义，而这“不完美”的结局是属于中国自己的故事
敬你弯着腰 上山往高处走，
没想到，我会在一个《功夫》性质的港式喜剧中，看到了胡金铨、张彻、程小东、徐克至于如今徐浩峰共同具有又都在致力表现的武侠精神：尝酸知苦，依旧生活
任凭心胸狭窄心理阴暗的精神眯眯眼疯狂诋毁，也不能阻止这部动画的声名远扬海内外
观感蛮复杂的。太多的周星驰元素，想要放入一个族群非常多元的「广东」上难免不够贴身。女性角色客体化的缺点在本片中也一并放大了，而且往往出现在关键叙事折点来助推男性角色的变化，不适感挥之不去。不过第一幕少儿化的热血冒险漫在第二幕一跃进入残酷的「外来务工人员」生活，整部电影也和阿娟一起「长大成人」，的确是国产片中极其难得的优点。全片最喜欢的反而不是正片最后狮头挂上擎天柱时的梦幻呈现，而是阿娟日出前在屋顶垃圾堆中原本应该是最后一次的舞狮。舞狮结束，放下狮头，在日出时分与这座城市一起迎接「生活」的到来，全片到此按理已经结束。第三幕的舞狮比赛更像是为了确认电影原本的定位而重回第一幕的热血漫。所以才需要那个「彩蛋」，提醒观众咸鱼终究是咸鱼，做工的人并不会真的翻身。还是感动到了，以及鼓励分加成，五星。
前半部分很有周氏电影少林足球的味道 到后半部开始有些不同 环境渲染很不错很真实 狮头的细节处理也很细腻 就是人物太丑了 每次老猫出来我都要吐槽一句太丑了 不过裤衩人字拖很有两广特色了 喜欢后面两个处理一个是阿娟是姐姐并不是什么女主 二是最后狮头挂在上面 这个处理比人上去强太多 为这从四星加到五星 再接再厉
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。
年度国产动画种子选手诞生，视角终于接地气也摆脱了前辈选手对各种神话IP的依赖，对底层的关怀值拉满，分镜流畅场景细腻（光影质感优秀），一中一尾两处反高潮的留白拔高主题，敢于做减法也体现了主创的自信。是真的燃，也真的煽，且燃中有煽，煽完又燃，我这把年纪，这年头看完热血沸腾的动画真不多。
在神仙打架的缝隙中，难得听到凡人一声咆哮。愿世间有山，比此山更高。
浸染了周星驰和香港电影的庶民翻身基因，以及日本漫画的热血精魂，但留守的舞狮少年才是让本片独秀于林的核心，在一众科幻和神话题材中脱颖而出。开场伴着《道山靓仔》的少年穿梭于小镇的一段长镜头，结尾雄狮跃起后《莫欺少年穷》的前奏鼓点响起。两首歌首尾呼应堪称凤头豹尾，来自底层的生命力破壳而出。最后重生的雄狮现于佛陀，热血之后竟留下一丝禅意。影片后半段有无数泪点，但最让我破防的，是阿娟在离家去广州打工的公车上，响起椅子合唱团的一段词：“我们的世代，把厌世当一种习惯。或许这个世界，没什么值得期待，但那都与我无关。我是一个飞翔的笨蛋，人生本来该是一场狂欢”。
一切阴霾都会过去
其实之前一直不知道它的存在，十天前看到友邻广播，点进去看了预告片，感觉动画人设挺突出，有点松本大洋人设3D化的感觉……然后下面一众友邻表示那边有人在吵这人设乳滑，就非常黑人问号脸哈哈哈。电影最后收尾的非常漂亮，因为太漂亮了，导致它看上去，更像是个短片而不是长片的感觉，比如人物曲线方面的缺陷，他实际上没有一个给人成长了的感觉，只是在前后变化做了简单的衔接，没有锚点，比如一个留守儿童，他是不是还有学校生活，然后从学校到了这个暑假，也许他是个体育生（有无穷体力），爱打篮球（可以作为最后投狮头的一个铺垫）诸如此类的小细节与人物身份的相互辉照。
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