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".
我希望有这样的机器人，至少它永远不会背叛，当它背叛人类的时候，放心，政府会出面的
近年這類internet cartoon太熟口熟面了哈哈哈，對電子產品侵入兒童世界的批判不算犀利，明顯再狠毒一點無妨 specially private那一環太輕輕帶過了，發展很典型的人機友情故事，人類朋友可寫的不少卻沒有深入探討下去，大概始終是子供向
7.5/10
对这样的动画毫无抵抗力，又有趣又有想象力。
哭了 虽然大白既视感过强 但还是被打动了 而且真的有很多好笑的地方 尤其具像化的点赞和关注 太有趣了 Friendship is a two-way street 最后它离开了他 going everywhere 他成了机器人之王 有了新的朋友 但他们再也无法一起在草地打滚了 这是必须接受的吗？growing-up just sucks.
非常有教育意义的合家欢电影，硬塞一个手机pad或者其它就想让小孩有幸福生活是不可能的，需要社会化抚养（大雾）
不喜欢结局。
3.5的样子。立意还是蛮好的，尤其是越来越邪恶的资本家的嘴脸和基本是在监控着孩子们的b-bot，虽然有意识要减少对电子产品的依赖但是发觉依旧基本生活在手机的监控之下。资本家和想要好好做产品（？）的研发间的矛盾也是老生常谈，很有触动的镜头是他们在云端看到的其他孩子的失落的那里，其实大家都是一样的孤独。现充的快乐无可替代
Friendships are mutual
三星半，还算挺欢乐的动画片，各个年龄层都能从中看到自己的乐趣，科技改变生活，给孩子一个机器人伴侣，陪伴小朋友生活，帮助小朋友交朋友，最后日常生活完全依赖机器算法，各个角度都会有问题。片子大小逻辑上都有勉强的地方，好人坏人存在显得过于硬，不过动画片也算能理解
设定上可以加分，前半部分很不错，后面就开始套路和煽情了。
结局的处理方式太怪了，正常不应该是让人放下机器跟现实的人做朋友吗，居然是优化机器让人能更好得跟机器做朋友，不可能每个人都喜欢小白这样的朋友，这很不合理
小孩子反而看不进去 有些情节还是有些复杂 这是一个少年和AI共同成长的故事 也是一个探讨人工智能进化的故事 但愿我们的世界都是天然美好的发展下去吧……
不好看，没有新意，想象力不足，设定悬浮，这样一个生活方方面面与现在别无二致的世界，唯独机器人科技爆炸了，且这样的科技成果只有儿童使用，这是生造一个不能独立行走只为剧情服务的世界观。科技公司的老板太脸谱化了，我呼吁打破刻板印象，期待有穿黑色高领套头毛衣的老头是好人&穿连帽衫的科技nerd是坏人的一天[doge]
211211-不喜欢。故事疯狂又可怕，就算想反映社会现象想上价值，也不必如此。
我单方面宣布2021最佳动画属于它的
●这真是太赞了！！我从来没见过一部电影是这么纯粹的去讲述和歌赞友谊的！我最爱的友情！
看到四十分钟了，还是看不进去，太幼稚了。并且角色设计的也不可爱。忍耐着看完，还是觉得做CG动画一旦用“人类”作为角色，一般都很丑...
交友工具反而让人为了赢得关注而更孤独
最感动的点在深山黑夜里的为熟睡的你亮起一盏明灯。但结局太平淡了，有点失望，“朋友们”真的不是因为主角光环而回到主角身边的吗？
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