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".
前半段情怀的共鸣，后半段毁了整部电影
前半程还不错，后面拉垮的不行……直接原著多好
非常认同郑渊洁的教育理念。 一部儿童片能拍出点深度，不容易，所以鼓励一下。
三，那几个同学相互帮助，他们一起成立了学习小组，让更多人学习到了一些知识，并且应用到生活中和考试里，让他们的成绩都有一个巨大的飞跃。
还记得小时候看皮皮鲁和鲁西西就会想我家的罐头里有没有小人儿，我家的沙发里有没有一座城市... ...感谢我妈，给我买那些童话书看，支持我做我想做的事，不会用成绩否定我，或者单因为成绩让我骄傲。
看票房是不是就悬了，不甘啊
完全尊重原著，但是拍的节奏有点一言难尽，前面的情节太快了，原著很多有意思的情节都没有展示出来，比如说晚上鲁西西给小人们做衣服，用针给上尉做剑，从冰箱里偷食物给小人吃，给小人做房子，红沙发乐队等等，都没有拍出来，但是完全抓住了故事主线，完全还原了90年代的郑渊洁，但是表演及特效…也是90年代的水平。
作为皮皮鲁故事的忠实读者，这电影拍的太不合格了，丑化学校丑化教育，故事本身也不够好看。
郑爷爷的小说有很多好的IP，希望能不断拍出好电影！
带侄女看的第一场，观感比较陈旧，暗黑童话，讽刺坏同学，只认成绩的老师和学校。直到最后学校着火，大家由此觉醒。可是教育行业的现实问题仍在。此片受众，留不住幼儿园小朋友和小学生，大人又觉得一般。
突然发现童话电影在国内也是个贫瘠区…除了七仔好像就找不到其他同类型电影的类比项了…
故事不错的呀，最后还挺感动的。小朋友的世界也很丰富
鲁西西有一条完美的人物弧光，皮皮鲁自始至终没有成长，有些遗憾
对于皮皮鲁来说，《罐头小人》得算是一部爽剧；对于鲁西西来说，就有点儿曲折了。最后的郑渊洁彩蛋让我和小熊都很激动。
陪儿子去电影院看的，作弊描写真的有点多，最后火灾也处理的有点潦草，但是还是挡不住是部好剧，讽刺分数主义至上，讽刺应试教育，看到最后有泪花。
太好奇，所以看了。怎么港，是国内儿童片的工业水准了（微笑脸）
挺无聊的。罐头小人没我想象的有趣，就没看了。
没啥电影质感 跟我小时候幻想的罐头小人也相差比较远 但皮皮鲁和鲁西西的小演员还是选的很有灵气的 鲁西西妥妥大女主 跟老师对杠的时候我真的爱死她了！n年前的作品拿出来拍电影 讲的也还是应试教育那点事儿 但其实现在的教育虽然也还存在着这样的问题 但已经在通过不一样的更隐秘的方式表现出来了 所以显得有一些落伍。。。也有一点点激进 扮相也不够八九十年代 但是儿童电影没有真正意义上的坏人 看起来毫无包袱 还是很幸福的
带四年级的女儿看的，正值她的期中考试前夕。我们很喜欢。正能量，有温度，拍的也很用心。非常值得推荐。另外，我发现这个片子票房很差，整个南京只有四个很偏僻的影院有上映，豆瓣上评分量也很小，有点点可惜啊。
国庆档的第一部，能在杜比影院看到，很不错。情节能吸引学龄儿童，全程没有让亲子观众出戏，倒还有童音在问大人“你们快乐么？”
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