The Sorcerer's Apprentice

121 mins.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer, and Monica Bellucci.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a comedy directed by Jon Turteltaub.  Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) is a sorcerer  who lives in modern-day Manhattan. He is  a disciple of the legendary sorcerer Merlin and  fights against the forces of evil, in particular  Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina) and his aim is to search for the person to inherit Merlin's powers.  The battle will go on until he finds a so-called chosen.  Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel), who is a physics student at New York University, turns out to be this person.  And Balthazar takes him as an apprentice and teaches Dave to do magic  so he could stop Horvath and Morgana  from destroying the world. The wizard Maxim Horvath  claims New York City as his own.Dave has to fulfill his destiny and bring the battle between  evil sorcerers to an end.  
The film Sorcerer's Apprentice is full of magic.  I don't consider the movie itself  to be magical.  There is a plenty of special effects but they are  unimpressive. The visual style of  the  director Turteltaub  is not really distinctive, but it helps to  keep the film well-paced and  the audience remains engaged. Unfortunately  he  has a  tendency of throwing in stale pop songs  during the film.