该片将以黄鼠狼巴克·怀尔德为主角，讲述巴克与负鼠兄弟Crash和Eddie的故事。

该片改编自埃里希·玛利亚·雷马克撰写的同名经典小说，讲述在第一次世界大战期间，保罗·鲍曼和同学莱尔、米勒参加了德国国民志愿兵，被派往前线与法军作战。在战场上，他们目睹到了残酷的饥饿、血腥和死亡，战争的荒谬无情让保罗从迷恋战争到心灰意冷。

皇上和众大臣斗蛐蛐时，华阴县进贡的“黑头将军”屡战屡胜，惹得他十分高兴，责令华阴县再献上品蛐蛐一只。县官将该差使交给童生成名，成名刚申辩才交过一只，便招来一顿毒打。县官给成名三天时间，否则即斩，他为此愁眉不展。一只上品的“青头大王”被成名幸运地捉到，欣喜若狂地将它带回家后，他将它交给儿子小华，要他好生照看，自己则去了街上买肉准备庆贺。在小伙伴的数次请求下，小华打开了装有蛐蛐的盆的盖子，“青头大王”一跃而出，小华赶忙去捉，哪知用力过猛弄死了它。成名回到家得知此事，立刻大怒，痛哭不止的小华跳进水井，最终虽被救出，但神智已经不清。这时，一只“小梅翅”落在空空的蛐蛐盆内，成名拿它测试，战绩不俗，急忙拿去献了县官。他哪里知道，这只“小梅翅”是小华的化身。

It's 1846. Sweeney Todd and Anthony Hope, greeted only by a crazed beggar woman, sail into London, where Todd implies he has been before but not in quite some time. Todd heads to his old stomping grounds of Fleet Street, where he runs across the pie shop belonging to Mrs. Nellie Lovett, who professes to make the worst meat pies in London due to the high cost of meat. The upstairs of her building has sat empty since no one wants to rent a space that is considered haunted by its long ago tenant, barber Benjamin Barker who was falsely accused and ultimately sentenced by the sadistic Judge Turpin and who was shipped away to prison in Australia, leaving his wife Lucy and infant daughter Johanna alone in the world. Todd comes to an agreement with Mrs. Lovett to rent the upstairs of her building so that he can open his own barber shop. A series of incidents, including one with rival barber Senor Pirelli, make Todd change his focus slightly away from having a choice encounter with Judge ... Written by Huggo