UCLA college student Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards) is playing a game called "Gotcha" (popular on mid-1980s college campuses as "Assassin" or "Tag"), wherein the players are all assigned a mock "hit" on another player by use of a harmless paintball gun. Moore and his apartment roommate Manolo go on a vacation to Paris, France. After touring some of Paris, in a cafe Moore meets Sasha Banicek (Linda Fiorentino), a Czechoslovakian girl. Eventually, Jonathan has intercourse with Sasha, losing his virginity.
Jonathan decides to leave Manolo (who is heading to Spain) and go with Sasha to West Berlin to spend more time with her. Jonathan believes that he is in love with Sasha. There, Jonathan and Sasha continue to have sex and even go to an Oktoberfest beer gathering. One night, Sasha tells Jonathan that she has to go to East Berlin to pick up a package. One night after arriving in East Berlin, Sasha leaves their hotel room and walks to dark street corner. There, Sasha meets a German man who tells her the location of the pickup of her package. Meanwhile, Sasha was being monitored by a Soviet agent, who was sitting in a car at a distance. During the day, Sasha tells Jonathan that if she gives him a certain message, it means that he has to leave East Berlin immediately. At a cafe, Sasha gives Jonathan a package and says that a strudel is inside. A little later, Sasha tells Jonathan to meet her at the butcher shop near their hotel. All of a sudden, a Soviet agent begins to chase after Sasha. Sasha decides to use Jonathan (who is holding her package) to unknowingly get the package over to West Berlin. Meanwhile, Sasha is taken by the Soviet agent and East German secret police.
Jonathan goes to Checkpoint Charlie to cross the heavily fortified border into West Berlin. At the East German customs search, Jonathan is stripped of his clothes and given a cavity search. Meanwhile, Sasha is stripped and searched for possible espionage evidence. Vlad arrives at the border crossing to search for Jonathan, however Jonathan passes the border safely before he can be captured. Once in West Berlin, Jonathan feels liberated by the Westernized society. In the hotel, Jonathan receives a message from Sasha to meet him at a specified location. Jonathan finds out that his hotel room was broken into and robbed of his traveler's checks. Soviet agents eventually find Jonathan in West Berlin and chase him throughout a public park. Jonathan jumps into a water canal and manages to escape from the Soviets and stumbles upon a German rock group headed for Hamburg, who offer him a ride to the airport.
The rock group successfully get Jonathan to the airport (using full-face makeup to sneak him past a checkpoint) and Jonathan finally arrives in Los Angeles Tom Bradley International Airport and to his apartment. Soon, Vlad and a band of Soviet agents arrive too in Los Angeles. Once home, Jonathan stumbles upon a film canister, which was planted by Sasha. Jonathan visits his parents and tells them what happened in Germany but they cannot believe a word of it and think Jonathan is on drugs. Jonathan decides to call the FBI then the Central Intelligence Agency for help. Jonathan returns to find his apartment broken into and looted.
The CIA officer tells Jonathan to give them the photo film canister. At the Los Angeles headquarters of the CIA, Jonathan spots Sasha who looks like she was working there. Jonathan eventually meets up with Sasha. Sasha admits that she is Cheryl Brewster, a CIA agent, originally from Pittsburgh. Out of nowhere, Vlad and his gang begin to chase Jonathan and Cheryl on the UCLA campus. Jonathan eliminates all the Soviets with a tranquilizer gun which he gets from the campus veterinary sciences building. The Soviets are arrested, the CIA agents thank Jonathan for his (indirect) help in obtaining the film, and Sasha tells him she wants to continue their relationship.
After they part, Jonathan talks to a pretty student who rebuffs him coldly. As she walks away, he aims the tranquilizer pistol and shoots her in the rear.
影片里的强哥就对主角说过要不是看你眼睛里闪烁着一丝纯良，我还以为你是刚从监狱里出来呢。想来其实对于我来说，不管是小眼睛还是大眼睛，只要眼神有戏，人物有精气神，有故事，我就乐意看。那些说眯眯眼加深了外国人的刻板印象的算不算另一种崇洋媚外呢？亦或是，换成了迪士尼大眼，你们还会说崇洋媚外吗？哪吒魔童降世那句著名的“人的成见就像一座大山”，直到现在对于一些人来说仍然就只是一句台词而已。去看看吧，不要不承认，底层人物就是这么不好看，阿猫阿狗就是这么丑，但是他们的眼里闪着的光，永远都在告诉着我们什么是醒狮精神。[笑]
剧情铺垫有点弱，有些台词过于粗糙了，包袱抖得比较生硬。后半段进入佳境。美术方面算是精良了，对城乡环境的展现，又实又美。
本片是弘扬打工文化的一部力作。男主父母为了打工，宁肯四年时间一次也不回距离广州不到60公里的老家，让亲生儿子成为留守儿童也在所不惜。逼的男主为了引起父母关注不得不参加舞狮活动，展现顾工地大家不顾小家的打工精神。之后男主父亲更是在工地摔成植物人的情况下，也不向打工企业要工伤赔偿，而是由男主放弃舞狮去打工赚钱治病，可谓将任劳任怨的打工文化薪火相传。最后结局彩蛋更是让男主哪怕取得舞狮大赛冠军，也仍然义无反顾的抛下一切，到离家乡更远的上海继续打工，将万事皆空，唯有打工的主题彻底升华了。
现在看表现少年练习的地方过多了 可以插入多一点舞狮知识介绍
开头30分钟非常无聊，看得我都快睡着了。但为啥还是给了五星呢？因为后半段实在是太赞了！观影过程中，能清楚地感受到制作团队对“舞狮”这项中国传统艺术的熟悉与热爱，中段的舞狮大赛简直精！彩！绝！伦！主角的经历也十分贴近普通人的生活，几乎每个情节都能让我想到自己，所以看电影时一直在哭。最让我喜欢的还是结局和彩蛋，虽然主角没说一句话，但一切尽在不言中：“不要因为生活放弃梦想，但也不要为了梦想放弃生活。”这才是我想看的电影，能让我从别人的故事里获得勇气，然后继续勇敢面对自己的人生。
雄狮造型的真实和细节，以及故事背景的真实，你得知道就算在改革前沿，有依旧有困难伴随。前期的种种铺垫，让我觉得最后越上擎天柱，也是合情合理，是辛苦付出的结果。
没有“刻意”回避现实。点滴地方特色，村镇摩的，城市地铁，饮食到穿着、口音，甚至长相，很有心了。普通人就算在雄狮世界里赢了，回归现实仍然要进厂，相比“我命由我不由天”后的无言，这是更高超之处：同为阿娟，同为冠军，一个开车一个却在送货，然后呢？没有然后。之前取关一个豆黄，号称外卖晚到五分钟要投诉，自得的小布尔乔亚式撒娇。在巨大且无法弥补的鸿沟下，如缺乏最起码的人道关怀，闭嘴是最大的道德，而非把那点可怜的骄矜盘出包浆给别人看——我可是人上人。
0.1A 中间一度陷入“现实主义”的段落甚至比最后的“成为雄狮”更值得称为片中的华彩时刻（甚至可能是国漫对留守儿童和工地题材的首次探讨）。情绪上的精确调控一气呵成，虽然前段的屎尿屁和网络段子确实有些出戏（“我大意了，没有闪。”），但最后雄狮意象的点到为止也确实有“终于燃起来了“的感觉。正片是病猫成狮的热血激昂，彩蛋则是回归现实的一击点醒。雄狮一时终不能流芳百世，打工挣钱才是我们这代人的现实。
平庸的剧情，仍然是“不管多屌丝，只要努力，就能成功”的鸡血路子。
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。
太喜欢了！电影展现了人性中最高贵的部分：不认命、不认输、勇敢地创造、以实现自我作为人之为人的最高使命。看得涕泗横流，泪水和欢笑一起迸发。被狠狠打动了（大哭）。
国产动画终于不再局限于奇幻类型，将现实议题（少年成长）与传统技艺（舞狮）相结合，不再依赖于所谓的IP和宇宙，反而呈现了一出耳目一新的原创故事。另外背景放在粤语地区也极其合适，不单有故事本身带来的看点，还可以自然融入诸多粤语地区的文化元素，除了几首配乐外，还有周星驰式的小人物成长，武侠片的侠肝义胆，以及港产无厘头喜剧的夸张颜艺，几场舞狮戏也极具观赏性，国漫在被日漫美漫风格影响多年“拧巴”发展后，这部才终于从形式到内核完成了统一。最后，赞美2D。
雄狮太贴近现实了，越贴近现实的电影越难以得到下沉市场。
靠！怎么能这么热血，害得我眼睛里进沙子了。
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。
今年的年度最佳影片，从第二幕离开小镇开始的后半段甚至可以是“国漫崛起”以来的最佳。留守少年的成长，在梦想和现实之间挣扎，最终又回归现实，这才是真正的成长，世界上最大的奇迹就是自己的不放弃。
徜徉于上世纪末的东西方文化洋流里，
从剧情到画面到技术到配乐都好赞。在广州城的高楼屋顶起舞舞狮那一幕好美，有这一幕就已经是经典了，想到了《燃烧》的暮色中起舞……最后集体鼓点也好赞。国产动画已经如此之厉害了！应该在春节档继续上映的，这明明就是春节档电影啊，又美又燃又励志（虽然也很心酸但也更真实更符合中国国情啊）。
电影的英文名是《I am what I am》，进取与激励贯穿全篇，人活着得有精气神，不论是正在崛起还是逐渐没落的事物，要去相信，相信努力的价值，只要心中的鼓点不会断，我们都可以做一头雄狮。
为纪念那没入人海无声无息、却又怒吼的人们，你、我、他。每个人都值得被歌颂。
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