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Karlach would love the Barbie Movie. Minthara too, for what are ostensibly the "right" reasons... but also maybe a little too far on that front, with the whole drow-upbringing thing.
Wyll would spend the next two weeks worrying that, as a duke's son, he was Patriarchal Ken - not realising he is actually sweet, supportive, home-protecting Allan. His favourite part was the mermaids.
Lae'zel would spend the entire night rolling her eyes and "tskva-ing," declaring the entire film an inane waste of time... and then secretly sit in her car alone in an empty parking lot sobbing to What Was I Made For? on repeat for an hour.
Shadowheart and Astarion would laugh hysterically throughout the film, and then not-so-secretly sob together to What Was I Made For? on repeat for an hour while drinking wine right out of the bottle.
Gale would obsessively research every prop-creation factoid and reference to real Barbies before watching. He would spend the entire evening pausing the film in order to point them out to people, until Tara - who organised Movie Night in the first place because it's her favourite - threatened to claw his eyes out.
Rolan would start off appreciating the fun facts Gale was spouting until Tara ruined the fun, but then would pause the film himself to rant for ten minutes about the glorified car commercial scene.
Jaheira would scoff and pretend to be paying attention to her whittling, until she realised that one of the sub-themes of the movie was rebuilding and strengthening mother-daughter relationships. At this point, she would stare at the screen for the remainder of the film, ignoring her whittling entirely... but would still claim she wasn't watching.
Minsc would love and identify with the Ken-isms, but would be genuinely unable to understand why Ken wouldn't want to live in the shadow of his platonic woman bestie and muse. That said, he and Karlach now sing I'm Just Ken together at least once every karaoke night.
Halsin was invited to movie night, but decided to go on a three-hour hike instead. After listening to everyone talk about Barbie nonstop for the next two weeks, he decided to finally watch it on his own so he could join in on conversations. He then proceeded to be the one to talk about Barbie nonstop for two weeks to everyone else, who at this point had exhausted all conversational points of the film and moved on to something else.
Orin would be mad that the Barbies didn't just join in on the fight scene and slaughter all the Kens on the beach, instead of being boring and political about it. Despite her resentment of the sadistic Bhaalspawn, Minthara enthusiastically agreed.
Gortash was rapt with attention, and was seen jotting down notes, muttering something under his breath about "brainwash everyone... stage war as a distraction... gain political control." We should probably keep an eye on that.
Nobody saw it coming when Withers was credited as a writer and producer.