Heartwarming / The Sorcerer's Apprentice

• A very brief example, but still. Mixed with awesome, at the start of the film (during the field trip), we see Dave urinate his pants due to nervousness after his teacher escorts him out the building. Children start to laugh at the incident, but the adults (though we just see two adults mostly) instead of laughing along with the children gesture to make the children stop laughing, the teacher mostly just gestures silently with her hands, but if you pay attention, we see a blonde woman in the back inaudibly scold a child while placing her hands on his shoulders and shaking her head. We do not see any of the other adults during this happens, but while it does, the only other child who appears not to laugh is the girl he had a crush on from earlier in the film.
• A small moment early in the film has Horvath summon some wolves from several photographs to seek out and attack Dave. When Balthazar arrives he turns the wolves into harmless puppies. Just before he and Dave escape, Balthazar sees a train coming and returns the pups to their photos before they are run over by the oncoming train.
• Dave using his Tesla Coils to play music for Becky. It's surprisingly touching.
  Becky: You did listen to my show!
  • And him saying that he never thought about the unintentional beauty of the electricity until he met her. He says it in a perfect bashful-nerd sort of way.
• After Dave gives Horvath his ring in order to save Becky, he tries to apologize to Balthazar. However, rather than reprimand Dave, Balthazar reassures him that he would've done the same thing.
• Dave saving Balthazar and giving him Veronica's necklace.
• Balthazar having kept Veronica's necklace for centuries, holding on to the hope that he will save Veronica.
• Dave and Drake's first meeting can be considered one. While being sent to kill Dave, Drake actually offers him the first hit. They even discuss the training methods and Power Incontinence that came with inexperience. For those few moments, there were not members of opposing warring factions, just two youngsters who took up a similar course in college.