Who on Earth was this film made for?

This movie was a true stinker even in a Summer of stinkers. A much delayed sequel to the most hated movie to ever make a fortune at the box-office. This much is a clear and obvious. But my question is about the 'script' and nature of the story.

The film begins as a stinker of a modern 'feminist' narrative, rewriting history, and making history cliched and boring at the same time. Dry, tedious and very very stupid. But then the beginning name checks POTC 3 (the worst one), simply because Depp's in both franchises, I guess.

Then, when first through the mirror, the film goes twee, fluffy and kiddie friendly. But as soon as that tone is settled, the film goes darker- and then lurches into mega tedious nerdy SF time travel- in a very bad pastiche of vastly better adult movies.

The nonsense that has NOTHING to do with the Alice books bears a remarkable simularity to content from the many Oz books instead. Alice is a DREAM world. Oz has the types of towns and characters depicted in this film.

Then we have the endless, third-rate, seen it before so many times, CGI 'action' sequences.

I slept thru the final third (thank god), but the final credits were animation made for the very youngest children.

Only a bored braindead millenial could claim 'merit' in this movie. For ordinary people, the cynical throwing at a wall so many disconnected and WRONG (to the books) themes and tropes, in the assumption that thickies would confuse the random irrelevant mess with 'sophistication', doomed the enterprise.

I was shocked to see just one person responsible for the script. Such atrocious writing usually implies a 'commitee'. Disney should never have greenlit this script. And it did Depp no end of harm as well, at a VERY difficult time in his career. Hard to believe many people will be anticipating POTC 5 next year.

PS the editing was especially poor, and certain sequences, like the introduction of that tedious talentless Brit 'comedian' as 'time', rans for TENS of minutes without a break in the narrative structure. 15 minutes sgould have been chopped from the run-time to shorten such sequences.