Can the 3-D glasses from the movie Coraline be used to watch the 3-D Disney Alice in Wonderland ?

I wouldn’t see why not. :)

Yep. It’s all the same technology.

There are a few different types of 3-D glasses; there are paper ones, and there are Real D 3-D, and a whole bunch of other stuff. I don’t know if that changes whether they work or not, but I would imagine that it does.

Yes it would.

It depends. If I remember correctly, Coraline was a 3-D movie while Alice and Wonderland is actually in Real D 3-D, in which case the Coraline glasses would not work.

The glasses work by using polarized light emitted through a dual projection system. I’m not an expert on the process but it seems likely that theater is using the same 3D Projection system as these things aren’t cheap to upgrade. If I were betting I’d go with the probability the glasses will work. But they give you glasses anyway, so isn’t it kind of a moot point?

It depends on the technology they are using.

Why not do an experiment? Bring the old ones, get the new ones at the theater and report back to us which ones worked better. Sometimes empiricism is better than speculation.

Experiment and tell me! Maybe they are charging us $3 more for the glasses and not the experience.

Here is what I learned:

The old glasses I had showed the movie in reverse 3-D. The images went inward instead of outward. That was corrected by popping the faceplate out of the eararms, and taping them on in reverse.

Also: Apparently the ticket “surcharge” on 3-D movies is unavoidable. You have to buy the glasses.

So next time, I will lie about which movie I’m seeing, and then walk into the 3-D movie, with my own glasses in my pocket, anyway.

That’s what they get for engaging in capitalism’s worst behavior… the semi-forced purchasing of things.

PS… Alice in Wonderland is visually amazing, and has great acting. The storyline sucked, and its not worth it.

I’d say absolutely yes, but if you’re not sure you’d get a certain answer if you called your cinema and asked. There is a 3-D surcharge for films here, PLUS a charge for the glasses, and we’re encouraged to reuse them. The glasses I used when I went to see Alice in Wonderland also worked for Avatar and Up (saw Coraline on BD).

@Kraigmo that’s very strange about the backwards thing.