Why didn't the word-of-mouth and box office of Weather Pre-explosion explode?

In Weather Pre-explosion, the most serious problem of the film is not those funny scenes, but that the film itself can't bring any emotion. All the background settings are so child's play, all the characters are so perfunctory, and all the emotional connections are so sloppy. A director basically doesn't want to build a fantasy world where the audience can see the details. How can he make the audience produce * * * in this world?