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".
今年最喜欢的国产片，配乐与画面的精彩配比，每一首都很自然。当现实主义遇上传统文化，无可复加的是小人物咸鱼翻身的温暖故事，国漫新思路。
画面真细腻，足以以假乱真了。看得激情澎湃，太积极向上了，舞狮场面真的好精彩啊，真想有机会看个现场这样的表演，再一个人物脸谱很像小时候老式动画片人物，还是很喜欢这样抽象脸谱，看多国漫俊男美女脸，这样的还挺可爱的。
天台那场醒狮飘逸洒脱韵律十足至燃烧也至浪漫入定我年度十佳，不管叫阿猫阿狗阿珍阿强阿娟不管是黄皮白皮黑皮大小眼单双眼皮都没人能对你指指点点妄下侮辱之定义，「有没有听见心里面有一声咆哮」，是世界上另个一你自残酷现实反弹后的发问，是成人后于坎坷跌宕锤炼过的落音，从黑夜迎接朝阳也会继续走入榛莽，万物不息雄狮何惧。
粤语版，配乐一起就要哭，看完就想听《狮子山下》
And I knew if I had my chance
《濒死男子造出机器人只为照顾狗，机器人在制作者死后发现自己核心位置竟是开罐器》
最大的亮点是画面细节做得不错，但故事过于简单直白且陈旧，没见过一个电影把主题挂在人物嘴上一个向观众念叨的。《乐夏》的音乐塞得这么满，让我恍惚觉得导演是马东。
他护着一条狗，开始了全球旅行，因为有人告诉过他，live a life…
乐趣是跳动的爆米花和废墟里的绿色大衣，奇迹是落在眼前的蝴蝶和不会灼伤人的阳光，末日可惧而爱的使命是最优指令。我猜想杰夫机械的怀抱比人类温暖柔软。
三星半。本以为只是管中窥豹的城市打工族，没想到在后半段竟成了最动人的变奏。要是前面能早点来到这个立意就好了。不喜欢是每个关键节点都塞满了编剧逼你燃的技巧，过于套路
现实主义的人文关怀介入一定消解了无厘头与励志类型片的俗气，些许故意煽情但有效，文戏一般台词依然没能跳脱国产式尬
师父说：“别认”。明明知道被套路了。人生高光，留在背后，转身就走，不留下一片云彩；人呐，得憋着一口气，得为了这口气活着。非常港味儿，美术大法好，值得花钱去电影院，ost加分。
渐入佳境 其实是个很俗气的故事 但气氛渲染到这 还是哭了 结尾真的很喜欢 那首客家旁白曲真的点睛了 虽然生活没有动画里那么轻易 就像我少年离家后 就再也没能回去 “用心看完后 你不会去在意眼睛是大是小” 但人物建模这真的好丑哈哈哈哈救命
简单的故事，但是也太燃了！！！国漫这次真的牛逼！！！我欠雄狮少年一张电影票啊啊！！！！毛毛的片尾曲好听！
舞狮，街景，木棉花都超级细致，水平很高
全是最保守的配置，所以讲的也是最保守的父父子子故事，只不过在post pandemic的背景下，瘟疫和灾难似乎终于真正地能与所有人连接。因为这种先导的议程设置下，电影也感觉像是人隔离了半年之后一拍脑袋决定制作的，而且因为机器人的设定太过草率、过于智慧、过于温顺，从根本上颠覆了这种生活下人类最后的生存意义——干嘛不直接建立机器人的国就好了！最后还要重蹈金刚狼3的覆辙让人逼不得已痛哭一场。不过，在拥抱的时候，还是忍不住心想，我们活着真是太孤独了。解决主体间性的最终办法到底是什么，是毛茸茸
9分，难道出身一定决定命运吗？不，未来是靠自己奋斗打拼出来的。从“病猫”到“雄狮”，一路的艰辛坎坷只为证明自己的价值。鼓点自在心中，咆哮自在胸中，只有自立自强，才能得到他人的尊重。
美术1星，九连的音乐1星，舞狮1星，剩下段子大合集，毫无创作和反思，甚至是一场催眠
最佳动画片，不止是今年，近十年最好的院线动画片。动画片但是可以看做正经的电影来看，不是西游记什么的这些嚼烂的反复嚼，基于现实的童话，很有现实意义，人文关怀。配乐也很好。起立鼓掌！
点映。差点因为名字而错过了李白的诗。年度最佳国产动画。黄飞鸿、周星驰、《激战》，致敬了无数港片。配乐选得恰到好处，满，但快意，人文色彩与现实主义齐飞。无厘头风格喜剧下包裹着悲剧的内核，随着两代人追梦的足迹，又煽又燃。梦想这东西，从来都是那么一言难尽啊，即便中年又如何呢。
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