The second DreamWorks 3D animated title that’ll hit theaters in 2012 (after last month’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted) is Rise of the Guardians, based on the children’s fantasy-adventure novel by William Joyce. Guardians boasts vocal contributions from several celebrities – as is customary for DreamWorks’ computer-animated fare – including, Chris Pine, Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher, and Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants).

Here’s the twist with Rise of the Guardians: those people are voicing childhood myths (“guardians,” if you will) such as Jack Frost, Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, and Sandman (Pine, Baldwin, Jackman, Fisher and Kenny) – who join forces to prevent a malicious boogeyman (Law) from taking over the world.

It sounds like a goofy concept, but the first Rise of the Guardians trailer teased the ...

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