Terrible Tuesdays: Ella Enchanted (the movie)

Do these two look even moderately similar???

   Movies often don't live up to their book counterparts.  This is a known fact.  But when they took my favorite childhood book, Ella Enchanted, and made it into a movie they must have put all their energy into making it as horrible as possible. 
   The book is about a teenager Ella who was "blessed" with the gift of obedience when she was a baby.  This obedience only causes her trouble through her life especially with her evil step-sisters (okay evil step-sisters seems a bit cliche but I swear the book is awesome).  This book is awesome; I mean it won a Newbery Honor.  So I won't give it all away but the book is just a great mix of fantasy without seeming unrealistic.  I mean, the characters seem like real people but they just happen to live in a land with fairies, giants and ogres. 
   Ella is a strong character who bends the rules of her curse.  Yes she has to obey orders but she finds ways to rebel.  I remember one example: when she was told to make her step-sister a bouquet she makes the bouquet but puts poison ivy in it.  Hey, it's still a bouquet just not a very fun one.  Anyways, she ends up falling for a prince (as all fairy tale characters do) but she knows she can't marry him because she would put the kingdom in danger if she was in a state of power but still had to obey everyone no matter what.  The rest of the book is her coming into her own and trying to get rid of her curse so she can live a normal life.   Reviews praised the book and described Ella saying, "She is a strong and intelligent role model—instead of taking her misfortune sitting down, she marches off to rid herself of the troublesome curse."
   Now onto the movie.  That abomination.  I think the people who made this movie just put the book, rejected rainbows, and some moldy fairy dust swept off the Miramax studio floor, liquefied it and projected it on the silver screen.  So book teaches girls that they have power over their destiny.  The movie tells girls that eveything will turn out okay even if you're weak and helpless if you just sing about your problems and wait for a handsome prince to save you.  In the book the romance was just a secondary plot to defeating the curse.  The movie changes the ENTIRE PLOT!!!!!  The movie is about romancing the prince and defeating the evil uncle who is trying to take over the kingdom.  This uncle dude doesn't even exist in the book.  He is a poorly written horrible character who adds nothing to anything.  Another terrible thing about this uncle guy is that he's played by Cary Elwes...the hunktastic guy from The Princess Bride.  Well the schmexy masked hero from my childhood is gone.  Time has transformed him into a chunky middle-aged man who it's hard to look at. 

THIS

did not become THIS.  INCONCEIVABLE.

Oh movie, why you ruin everything good in the world?