How to open imovie library from another mac

I have my iMovie library on an extral, USB drive.
I would like to temporarily take that drive to the livingroom, plug it in to a laptop (macbook pro), so I can view the videos on my larget TV screen.
After this I would like to return the drive to the office and plug it back to the iMac - which is the main machine I use for iMovie.
Is this possible to do without much hassle? Do I just plug the drive to the laptop and my iMovie files will be automatically viewed on iMovie on my other machine?
Will I be able to easily reverse the process?
Is it necessary to have both versions of iMovie be the same? or not?
Thank you.

Thanks GeeD! I have iMovie 11 on both the permanent iMac and the temporary MacBook Pro. Both running OS X 10.8.
Actually, I don't want to or need to do any work on the temporary laptop. All the work is done on the iMac. I just need to be able to play videos on the laptop (which I can connect more easily to my large screen TV). I want to play the raw "events" - without having to create a project, edit, export, etc. which is time consuming.
You mentioned "copying" the library to the new laptop. This is not an option for me and I hope it is not necessary. I have several terabytes of video in my event library. The current library is in en external USB drive. I'm hoping that I can just unplug the drive from the iMac and plug it to the temporary laptop without having to copy the videos. If I do that, will I immediately "see" all the events on the external drive? and more importantly, will I be able to reverse the process by simply unpluging the drive and replugging it to the iMac? or will it required configuration to point to a new library each time I move the external drive?
Thank you.

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