Don't sweat it bro, whenever you read on here someone bashing the movie, all they can say is it's "bad", "stupid" or similar without a shred of specific inightful critique, hence they just don't get it, and probably did not watch the movie all the way through.
I used to do stand-up comedy and I can tell you the "set" or mindset of the audience is crucial you can tell the same joke the same way one 2 different nights and get completely different reactions. People have a bad day or just plain hate. It makes them feel good, but I can tell you it feels better to laugh.
I would differ with you on the "turn off" part: the script is actually quite involved, slyly slipping in various environmental information. For example, the scene with fish farming married to rice cultivation: this is actually a low-impact self-contained food system and well-known to people who study that type of thing.

How in the world would anyone attach "sophisticated" and "pauly shore"? The weeeeeesel is never gonna be that.