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".
1.久违的国漫黑马之作，追梦少年的赤诚与坚守真的让人热血沸腾。2.导演敢于以地域性的舞狮文化为动画题材已实属难得；对留守儿童和弱势群体的守护，更让我们看到创作者的真挚之心。3.最后舞狮大赛的高潮时刻层层递进，让我们相信，励志的光芒永远都能鼓舞着少年们勇敢前行。哪怕你是别人口中的“病猫、瘦猴、肥猪”，但当梦想的聚光灯照亮内心的那一刻，就会有奇迹发生。
估中了电影有《世间始终你好》的插曲
建模确实存在问题，但是剧本更有问题，充满了男性价值观。和国内的作品比，作品还是有亮点和长处值得称赞的。
故事老套，情节拼凑，但是不妨碍我走出电影院的时候被感动！喜欢藏在古厝树荫下的那尊佛，那是留守儿童的包容之地；下下铺的少年看到的东方旭日都是在高楼大厦挤压的缝隙中的，那个少年在海市蜃楼和阳光下的背影以及他的狮头，这个画面真的太美了。中国风的狮头细节花了很多的功夫，掉落的那一半露出少年一半的脸，也是一个很美的意境。最后跳擎天柱的时候，所有人，放下固执偏见，为他擂鼓，是因为那个少年在挑战所有人心中曾经的不可能，这件事情需要我们去支持他。少年没有跳上去，但是他把象征自己力量的狮头留着那里，故事到这里就已经足够了，他在少年的时候，成就过他自己，结尾处的彩蛋告诉我们，奇迹发生了又如何呢？生活还是在日复一日地进行着，我好喜欢这个结局，我觉得这才是中式的浪漫，在日复一日的滚滚红尘中期待奇迹又安心打磨的浪漫。
非常好看，前半段虽然节奏稍微拖沓，但电影里的广东风貌太美了，一直跟我老公说“这就是我们那边的房子和商铺”“这长得太像我堂哥了吧”，后半段从阿娟去广州开始燃炸，雄狮的“气”因生活的沉重和苦难而喷涌，天台那段舞狮太好了。阿娟真的是被嫌弃的一生，留守儿童到18岁瘦骨如柴，天天被霸凌，父母在广州打工好几年没回家，终于找到了舞狮这一个像生命中的光一样的东西，拼尽全力最后好像什么也没有改变
热血漫，挺燃的，导演很懂配乐，九连真人和椅子乐团的成名曲，还有毛不易的歌对剧情都有增色，该有的基础套路都有，该有的共情点恰到好处让感情持续上升，最后结尾的价值观取向很正，要相信朋友，做好自己的事，共同进步，再搭档才能跃升，舞狮是精神，是生活中的一部分，生活还是要踏踏实实地奋斗。
技术、画面、分镜都很成熟了，但文本依旧弱鸡，请问你为什么要把中心思想像口号一样喊出来？这是广播剧，或者观众都是盲的吗？励志煽情都太生硬，以至于我当场开始怀念周星驰。主角进入广州后，有了点现实主义的清风，但导演还是不太会在喜剧片中处理苦难 （于是我又开始怀念周星驰）。另外一个问题就是插曲没用好。ending还是很高光，鼓点真的是太燃了，喜欢这一段！
前段沒啥好說了。但是父親的死亡，街外人比起家人更親，師父才是它的真正的父親，獅頭是一個不可能的目的——它驅使阿娟實現，但是最後只有這個東西在那，人卻墮落了，這個結局不比《你好，李煥英》好多了？但是這裡更重要的就是父之名——還有女人為什麼是父親的另一個名字
一本歌颂无产阶级自我成长和斗争的杰作。只要心中还要鼓点响起，我们就是雄狮。
泪目两次，为爱情为友谊，心酸一次，床边照片，坠回现实。
一部用心讲述的好故事，特效配乐也是满分，笑点也不少。国产动画的表现越来越好了，希望这样的国产好电影越来越多。
只是想，在这苦难重重的人生里，赢一次。不求神、不拜佛，靠自己，创造一次奇迹。
市井小人物的传记，人物的外形或许并不符合大众所追求的审美，没有多么耀眼的外表，跳脱出动漫一味追求主创自身审美的桎梏，走向更为贴近现实的真实感。看到了许多周星驰电影的味道，树下鼓舞是《喜剧之王》，无名之辈到一举夺魁像《功夫》。《阿珍爱上了阿强》，还有人字拖是五条人。大隐隐于市。故事的选材很特别也很难得。当一众国漫创作者还沉浸在古典神话故事中你追我抢时，这样既有传统基底又接地气的作品属实难能可贵。当然，作为一部动画电影，最重要的还得看创作者的细腻程度，最后决赛的舞狮部分画面堪称精致，令人眼前一亮。至少是有花心思的，值得被肯定。｜7.5
这就是南方的水土啊，野地里茁壮的芭蕉叶，遮天蔽日的大树，三两成排的红砖瓦房，轻柔如镜的水面和池塘。大排档，小卖部，菜市行，蹿天腾地的少年，骑车、奔跑，被看不起，学习舞狮，梦想参赛。为了父亲和家庭，中断练习，扛起背囊进城务工。结尾交代得很好，挑战危险的最后一步，陈家村不分敌我一起击鼓打气，阿娟化身雄狮一跃而上，狮头战袍直挂擎天柱，没有评判的结果，一头真正的狮子在曾经诉说心语的大佛下踱步。阿娟的生活按既定的计划往前走，去到上海。从病猫到雄狮，他成功了，回到如常的生活中，仍面对现实的辛劳和窘迫，只愿心怀热血，愿命运不辜负为梦想努力的阿娟们。
3颗半 有出彩的段落 但节奏还是很垮 台词还是很尬
雄狮少年比想象中好
写实动画做到这种程度，你除了给满星，还能干啥呢。能追求梦想，也能回归现实，这结尾谁不爆哭呢。讲小人物故事，还得看大湾区。
在离家期间看直接看哭，生活是越不过的擎天柱，有人还非得带着信念孤注一掷；有闲暇才能赞扬生活的昂扬斗气，更多的时候是不被人理解的孤苦无依。
模仿别人的太多，自己的风格太少，这也许是很多新导演的通病，这部国产动画也不例外。不过，在主题上将留守儿童与传统舞狮结合起来，意外带出不少趣味，确实又不能抹杀创作者在剧本上下的工夫。最后所有舞狮队都为主人公击鼓打气的一幕有些许感动，同行之间除了竞争，还应有互相扶持抱团的一刻。这种现实关系的刻画放在当下似乎更能引起共鸣，所以看到有这位新导演竟能拍出这一细节，既意外又感动。
7.4 首先谢谢我安赠票，动画技术和剧情设计上确实是有一些问题的，但也不想多说什么了，以小镇青年的视角来切入现实的残酷令人感觉惊喜，屋顶那场戏真好，动作的律动与萌芽的城市共呼吸，初升的朝阳下是心中的声音在怒吼。
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