Gasteyer played McGee with a subtle drollness that got lost in a production that steamrolled the script's best jokes, but Wood juiced the screentime.
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Occasionally a deadpan drollness, reminiscent of George Saunders, flickers in the prose, hinting at a possible interest in doing gothicky Americana, but that's also fitful.
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Filmed in Los Angeles, but keeping its setting anonymous, this amiable look at life on the margins gradually accumulates a melancholy that punctures the drollness.
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Petty may not have had Springsteen's innate charisma, or Dylan's alluring aloofness, but there's a wicked drollness in Petty's performance that made this already dark-hearted clip all the more creepy.
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It's exciting to see the workplace novel making a literary comeback, with more daring examples including Hilary Leichter's "Temporary" and Helen DeWitt's "Lightning Rods" treating drudgery with a life-giving drollness.
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Where other shoegaze and slowcore revivalists adopt the same sort of meek drollness that their forebears perfected, Strohmer treats his subjects like the matters of life and death that they really are.
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Brad Paisley has parlayed his drollness into a long-running gig as a host of the Country Music Association Awards and a new one as M.C. for the Wild West Comedy Festival in Nashville.
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The clip, directed by Jonah Hill, is a tribute to New York City in all its drollness, featuring a straight-faced Ezra Koenig around a handful of the city's staples—the Jewish gourmet Zabar's, as well as an uptown deli, and a grimacing Jerry Seinfeld.
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Some reviewers saw deeper levels in the plot and cinematography; cinematographer Michael Bonvillain was praised for capturing "some interesting images amid the postapocalyptic carnival of carnage, as when he transforms the destruction of a souvenir shop into a rough ballet", while Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com said, "the picture is beautifully paced" and highlighted "a halcyon middle section where, in what could be viewed as a sideways homage to Rebel Without a Cause, our rootless wanderers share a brief respite in an empty, lavish mansion". Claudia Puig of USA Today said, "underlying the carnage in Zombieland is a sweetly beating heart", and, "This road movie/horror flick/dark comedy/earnest romance/action film hybrid laces a gentle drollness through all the bloody mayhem". Entertainment Weeklys Lisa Schwarzbaum concluded, "At the bone, Zombieland is a polished, very funny road picture shaped by wisenheimer cable-TV sensibilities and starring four likable actors, each with an influential following".
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