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".
看预告就觉得没啥兴趣，为了看看为啥口碑这么好评分这么高才去看。结果看的哈欠连天，太无聊了，从第一个镜头到最后一个镜头，从人物设计、笑点设计到剧情转折，全都可以预见，太太太俗套了。当然，动画做是做的不错的，场景太逼真了。但是，真的很无趣，想模仿周星驰也就学了个皮毛，而且周星驰那套都是二十年前的笑点了，现在真的不好笑了啊。
前半段有点儿尬，但是舞狮的部分都太帅了，感觉经费都花在刀刃上了，难得不是老IP的原创故事，而且还是个完整的故事，少年与大佛的几个桥段都很喜欢，至于闹得沸沸扬扬的人设问题真的感觉矫枉过正了，值得一看的国产动画。
就为了那飘动的狮子毛都值得个五星。不用说配乐，叙事节奏，高潮燃点。真是目前为止的最佳国漫了。不吃老祖宗的神话老本，踏踏实实的现实题材，能搞到这个水平，别无他求了。
阿娟决心告别舞狮前，在天台最后一舞。舞狮结束，朝阳升起，照亮正在生长却不属于他的城市，他内心响起舞狮的鼓点，激活一切澎湃，镜头给到成群结队进入电子厂的工人背影，那一刻他们仿佛也听到了鼓声。
有片方愿意投这种原创、成人向、现实题材动画电影，算是一种进步，给个鼓励分。剧本问题比较大，不说周星驰20年前的文本是否过时，纯喊口号式的二手金句台词实在太尴尬了，也跟片子的现实基底完全不搭。大幅减少对白的第三幕观感立马提升，完全靠视听呈现的高潮收得漂亮，导演明显优于编剧。
第三幕让影片境界飞升。关于留守儿童的残酷现实与污泥少年的梦想之光激荡共振，融汇成了一股势不可挡的「气韵」。印象深刻的是一个不起眼的小细节。（女）阿娟带着男友来看舞狮大赛，她满眼是光；于男友，这只是一场看过即忘的比赛，意兴阑珊间拿起了手机。这组人物关系喻指了梦想-现实。为了生活，人总要妥协，将梦想抛却。这是大多数人要面对的「现实」。而在（男）阿娟奋战到底，要成为雄狮时，这种冲劲燃起了她心中的火。从一人擂鼓，到全场擂鼓，那声声鼓点，托起了（男/女）阿娟的梦想，托起了众人之梦想。原来，梦想是可以击败现实的，哪怕只有一瞬。影片的剪辑很棒，还有两处蒙太奇段落之所以触动人心，皆因扣住了这个立意。
重要的不是将梦想变为事业，而是我曾经为之奋斗过，我尽力了。
一个老师曾让我们克制面对作品时的高高在上，观众是上帝，但迟早我们自己也得接受市场和观众的评价。
营销咖集体推荐的电影，其实除了美工外，各方面都平平的国产动画，从剧本到细节落实可诟病的地方太多，俗套追梦人，留守儿童议题，在梦想和现实里做选择，平凡无奇也能登顶神坛，可预料的国产动画元素，可想象的剧本落脚点，对于南方乡村的风光和人文刻画的很有神韵，但通篇对于梦想的描绘以及师徒四人的互动，桥段非常尬，自以为是的矫揉造作，临摹周星驰小人物的篆刻风格，甚至一些剧情直接复刻粘贴，电影的前半段由于角色的样貌和妆容，以及对于醒狮文化的追随，想当然式的梦想集结，特别生硬的展开叙事，后半段阿娟外出打工，现实照应让观众焕发出同理心，算是正式给出代入感，结尾处醒狮斗法，依旧是无厘头的“臭脚”幽默，部分场景热血沸腾，但梦想一步登天，太有偷懒之嫌，陈腔滥调的故事内核，短暂又收敛的技术狂欢，还不能完全说服观众。★★☆
虽然刻画人物过于脸谱化，虽然镜头语言过于花哨，虽然充斥了过多宝莱坞式歌舞，但题材本身让它足以得一个5星。中国有过很多类似的案子，也有过不少愿意为了他人的公正而去抗争的人，遗憾的是，我们没有办法这样讲出来
3.5。事件意义大于电影本身，四星可以打给这个意义以及各种引申思考的。就电影而言，前半段刑讯逼供戏的尺度和篇幅大到撕心裂肺令人发指，后半段正义的伸张又过于顺利，有点让人纳闷，挑战这种固化的难度似乎太低了。
笑死 美国人看完都说“在中国真好啊 唐氏综合征的孩子都能能自由追逐梦想” 😅
印度政府怎么能让这种电影过审？正义得以伸张的核心除了权力外的民权律师，还有权力内的警察处处长：”为了警察部门我什么都可以放到一边，但是我永远不会放弃我的良心，我很抱歉。“
9.0/10 关乎尊严。印度人能拍出这样的电影，中国导演制片人们在干啥呢？
第三幕我给满分，真厉害！
浦西封锁的第三天，也是清明节假的第一天，完全摆烂地打开《雄狮少年》，看完后哭得脑浆子疼。两条弹幕，一个说“屋漏偏逢连夜雨”，一个说“生活就是这样，辉煌过，还要继续下去”。再加上五条人、九连真人的调子一响起，整个遭不住啊。那头雄狮的脸都烂了半张，脚也浸了血，但他平生只是想要赢一次，告诉老天他可以主导一次命运。这是现实主义题材的一次温柔，也是一次成功的努力。
本片后40分钟，好的一塌糊涂。
制作组亮出乐夏粉籍！五条人打底的广东地方味，中程有椅子城市哀愁之歌，终九连将感情送至巅峰——绝妙！
这个场景，应该被载入中国影史。
想要燃很容易，但想要浪漫很难，这个片子偏偏就拍得很浪漫。有些笑料还是有点傻，但是一点儿不坏，不叫人难以忍受，虽然五条人和椅子那两首加得很生硬，但九连的奇特前奏偏偏就放在最合适的地方。挑战时刻难免有辩护人即视感，可是有精彩的动作把这一口气顶上去了，而动作之精彩比比皆是。几处狮头内外的视角也非常喜欢，看狮头里的人，看狮头里什么样，从狮头往外看。觉得它好，并不只是出于年底院线一塌糊涂的原因，本身也挺好的。
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