The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex

Alex Russo, the teenage wizard at the center of the Wizards of Waverly Place series, wants her family to see her as grown up and responsible. While experimenting with magic, she casts a spell that splits her into two people: a good Alex and a wicked counterpart. The evil double joins forces with a charming young wizard named Dominic, who is hiding his own agenda to take control of the world. The good Alex has to stop them, protect her family and save humanity, leading to a confrontation between the two versions of herself.

The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex is a 2013 Disney Channel television film directed by Victor Gonzalez, with a screenplay by Dan Berendsen, Vince Cheung and Ben Montanio. It followed Gonzalez's work on the Wizards of Waverly Place series and was produced by Greg A. Hampson. Selena Gomez leads the cast as Alex, joined by Jake T. Austin as her brother Max, Jennifer Stone as her friend Harper, Gregg Sulkin as her boyfriend Mason, Beau Mirchoff as Dominic and Maria Canals-Barrera as her mother Theresa, among twenty credited performers.

The film runs about an hour and stands as a standalone adventure tied to the show. On IMDb it holds a 6.3 rating from roughly 7,900 votes, while on TMDB it scores 7.8 from around 1,092 votes, suggesting that the audience most invested in the series responded to it more warmly than the broader viewing public did.