Guys the Ella Enchanted book is so so so GOOD...the movie made me cry with how bad it was.
It's kind of like Card Captor Sakura vs. Card Captor's (a mystic adventure!) - the names and the bones of the plot are there, but other than that there are no similarities.
Gail Carson Levine did not deserve that shit show of a movie and it should be wiped off the face of the planet.