Men and Chicken (Mænd & høns)

 Trust the Danish to put out the closest thing I've seen to Nothing But Trouble...

 Gabriel (David Dencik) and Elias (Mads Mikkelsen) learn that they were adopted at their father's deathbed; This sends them to a distant island in a quest to find their biological father.
 There they find a dilapidated estate overrun with mutant animals and run by three previously unknown brothers (Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Søren Malling and Nicolas Bro)- belligerent man-children who at first beat Gabriel up with an embalmed waterfowl when he tries to introduce himself.

Gentlemen, choose your weapons.

 Things cool down when Elias shows up, as he speaks their language (he tries to beat them up with a rolling pin). Soon they're invited to come in and live with them.
 As it turns out, they all had different mothers, and all of them died during childbirth; The Father, Evelio Thanatos (how's that for an ominous name?) is a renowned geneticist who lives as a recluse upstairs, but the boys won't let Gabriel and Elias see him. As the days go by, Gabriel tries to introduce a semblance of order into the house, while his brother takes to life at chateau de Thanatos with glee. Tensions rise between them as Gabriel keeps trying to go up to Evelio's room to find out what the hell is going on.

 That's the basic plot; There's not a lot of it, and it's soon clear it's not that important. Men and Chicken is a thoroughly grotesque black comedy that revels in its weirdness and off-putting humor. It's... well, it's pretty funny. Gabriel, who got slightly luckier in the gene pool lottery (not to mention more loving parents) is of course the straight man, trying to tame four pseudo-feral idiots, and losing; As the story is not really that much of a concern, most of the movie is a pretty free-form forum to set these five nutjobs loose so they can bounce against each other in all sorts of mildly humorous/disturbing ways.

 There's jokes about onanism (if you want to see Mikkelsen put on his O-face multiple times, this is is your chance; It's not very sexy), bestiality, all sorts of awkward exchanges and psychological hang-ups. It gets a little tiring, to be honest, but there's always some fresh new madness or a great joke one scene away. Writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen has a kind of unsparing but sympathetic view on these things, focusing on the dysfunctional family aspect and injecting a measure of pathos to the proceeds to undercut the ugliness on display.

 A well acted, well-filmed, funnier and slightly more grounded version of Nothing But Trouble, then. Maybe. Or not really, but I  couldn't stop thinking of it while watching this. I'm on the side that kind of likes that infamous Dan Aykroyd bomb, so it's not really an insult.