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".
很平稳无意外的故事，也可以猜到最后的结局。除了海兽外的其他美术设计都好喜欢，船太漂亮了。
到最后也没看出怎么变成了龌龊的大人，反倒森山未来越来越hot了。
百无聊赖，打开这部航海冒险题材的动画来看。搏击画面的连贯感，海洋带来的压抑与浩瀚，感官享受好棒。猎人游侠这一类的冒险故事一直是我的一个嗨点，谁人不向往自由呢。故事也穿插了海兽的温情，是一个中规中矩值得一看的动画。
于是我去找了电影解说，看完解说后稍微明了了一点，但我依旧没有明白男主为什么对不要成为普通人有如此大的执念。
3.5⭐太适合孩子观看了，强烈建议全国小学生按头观看，画风童真浪漫，主题深刻但易懂，除了人与动物和谐相处之外，更有反洗脑之启示，不要轻信权威编造的假历史，要敢于质疑，敢于反抗。热评里说这部片圣母的人，生活里得是个多讨厌的人啊。
低配版驯龙高手，无论是故事还是人物还是海兽都比较简单，几百年的矛盾冲突几句话就被破解了。比起人类和海兽的战争，更想看海兽小岛的故事。大红像猫，小蓝像狗。
画质一流，剧情略有点简单，但是看着很舒服，很适合和孩子一起看。
跟《驯龙高手》的梗差不多，不卖萌，不玩梗，规规矩矩做情感线和成长线，叙事节奏很不错。可惜它的收尾是那种过于好莱坞的时刻，暴露了低幼化的定位。
技术真的不行，剧情真的老套，我是真的喜欢，因为它足够低幼。我很满意自己越来越能进入幼稚单纯的快乐。
因为倒叙，所以更显出最初的难得。“啊原来我以前是这样的人”“啊原来大家以前都是这样的人”，但是后来呢？始于美好与青涩，终于疲倦与时间。
制作上完全算的上精良，故事非常老套，但是放在动画上也勉强能接受
3.5。「I'm going to live a great life.」王国虚构故事，引发了海兽和猎人的战争，小女孩的出现拯救了两条生命。初看时会以为走海洋版《驯龙高手》的路线，但实际上也差不多。喜欢这个故事的中段，在海兽脊背上的航行实在是太浪漫了。
3.5如果书上的不是真相，那什么才是真的；我们的书，我们的历史，都是谎言。至少借儿童之口口头表达了残酷的真相
主题很好，也格外配这个时代，就是太刻意了。整个世界观好好讲完全能做出个三部曲，压在120分钟里就成了无脑爽片= =整个人设你细品：黑人小女孩救赎了中年老白男= =另外不理解为什么主角红海兽的设计最简单粗暴= =【好像是第一次在美国主流动画电影里看见真血】
故事极其老套，结束的也很仓促，这种相同情节的已经不知道看过多少部了，部分地方逻辑都有点问题，比如那个小船晚上还有灯，镜头一转灯又没了
虽然不那么出彩，但比雷神和小黄人好。巨物和反战还是宫崎骏老爷子讲得好，本片虽然不及但是也可一看
这片就是奈飞提高电影库存量凑数的，连最基本都特效都烂透了，对比就是我们骗补的院线动画，能让这种电影评到7分真是耻辱。所以啊，看到我这条影评的就别看了，白白浪费两小时生命
4.5/10。我已经很久没看过这么无剧情无笑点无奇观的动画电影了，屠龙勇士爱上龙，篡改历史的统治者。蓝色小怪物就是标准美式动画里的卖萌道具。
制作精良，美术设计不错，航海类型值得参考借鉴。故事简单没什么好说的，新老传承以及两代人看待事物的方式不同。很zz正确，又是种族平等又是女权还独立思考，且是环保题材，海兽又很萌，合格作品。
简介越多，吹嘘导演配音多好多好，电影就越一般……冲突没起来，幽默也不够，不可圈不可点，看了个寂寞
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