The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a 2010 American action adventure fantasy film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Jon Turteltaub, and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the team behind the National Treasure franchise.

The film stars Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel with Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer, and Monica Bellucci in supporting roles.

Horvath betrays Merlin by allying with Morgana le Fay, an evil sorceress who attempts to steal a spell called "The Rising", which would revive dead sorcerers and enslave mankind.

Throughout history, Balthazar searches for Merlin's descendant and imprisons Morganians, sorcerers who try to release Morgana, including Horvath, into the Grimhold.

When Balthazar gives Dave Merlin's dragon figurine, the statue comes to life to form a ring, revealing his status as the Prime Merlinean.

Balthazar and Horvath battle for possession of the Grimhold and are imprisoned in an ancient Chinese urn with a ten-year lock curse while Dave flees with the ring.

Dave makes another, larger Tesla coil out of the square's lamp posts and power lines to stun her and then fires a plasma barrage, finally destroying her.

The basic idea for the film was mostly Nicolas Cage's, who wanted to explore a mystic world and play a character with magical powers, and following a suggestion by his producer friend Todd Garner, decided to make a feature-length movie based upon the Fantasia segment of the same name.

[9] The Sorcerer's Apprentice is set in New York City, and most scenes were shot on location, in places such as Washington Square Park and Chinatown's Eldrige Street.

Dave's laboratory was filmed in either an abandoned subway station located under the New York City Hall or a studio recreation of it.

[9] The Bedford Armory in Crown Heights held several of the movie's sets, including Dave's laboratory, complete with inactive Tesla coil generators, Drake Stone's penthouse apartment and even part of Chinatown.

[11] In the early morning hours of May 4, 2009, a Ferrari F430 being driven during filming of a chase sequence, lost control and careened into the window of a Sbarro restaurant in Times Square, injuring two pedestrians, one of whom was struck by a falling lamppost.

To provide a lighting reference for the plasma bolts, the actors wore gloves with LED displays to make them glow before adding the computer-generated shot.

The site's critical consensus reads, "It has a likable cast and loads of CGI spectacle, but for all but the least demanding viewers, The Sorcerer's Apprentice will be less than spellbinding.

[15] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter has said that "The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a tired relic of summer-movie cliches, clearly beaten to death by far too many credited writers.

[23][24] All tracks are written by Trevor RabinThe songs "Secrets" by OneRepublic[25] and "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World are used in the film but do not appear on the album.