Ella Enchanted book vs. movie

I am always so annoyed when a book is made into a feature film, and they stray from the story line. It is so typical of Hollywood to add more "drama" to movies to make them more "interesting" or to draw in more money. I am a big fan of the book "Ella Enchanted" and I was pretty disappointed with the movie. Not that is was a bad movie, just that it didn't follow the book as it should have. There are many alterations done to the plot:

1. In the movie, the re-marriage of her father occurs much earlier than in the book.

2. In hte movie, Ella is not sent away to school, she meets Hattie and Olive when their parents marry and Hattie takes the necklace while Ella shows her her room for storage of all of her clothing.

3. One of the biggest alterations the movie made is that Prince Char's father and mother both died, so his cruel uncle is king!! That is not the story at all. And his uncle is horrible to the kingdom, which is fabricated (there is no uncle in the book).

4. With this uncle in the story, he finds out that Ella has an obedience curse and so he tells Ella to kill Char near the end of the story so that he can stay king (he also reveals that he killed Char's father). None of this occurs in the book.

5. In both versions, Ella does end up breaking the curse out of love for Char, but it different scenereos in each story.

Though I like both versions, it still bothers me that Hollywood would take such a good story and make it more "dramatic." What is wrong with a simple fairytale anymore? Why can't things be happy and not have all of these crazy plot twists. I've noticed this occures a lot when books are made into movies, and it always proves that the books are so much better (writers are just incredible).