cry cry cry Anne Hathaway should NOT have played Ella. I'm sorry, but she just wasn't right for the part. What happened to finishing school? That was one of the best parts of the book. And the singing and the dancing?? It made the movie so cheesy and stupid. Where did they get that from? If you see this movie, and have read the book, it might be a good idea to go into the cinema thinking that there is no book for this movie, and you have not read anything, you don't know the storyline, and everything about this movie is going to be completely new to you, because the storyline has been completely changed. Why is Ella suddenly a crazy protesting teenager, and Hattie an obsessive Fan Club president who french kisses the floor? Why is Olive a dipsy silly nothing?!? In the book, Ella tries not to obey the orders she is given, and struggles, but in the movie, she does everything right away. And why, may I ask, was Lucinda suddenly a crazy drunken fairy, isn't she meant to be helpful in the end? Why is Mandy a stupid fairy who casts spells all the time? She is meant to never ever do magic! A talking snake, a mad uncle and a prince who is up himself. Why couldn't they just keep to the original story-line and save us all the agony? I like the book version much better. Its original and interesting compared to this cliché of a Cinderella story.