What's the target? Is there any message?
I've recently discovered this series only because I saw actors that I liked from other comedies. While both films are fun to watch, I also wonder what kind of target audience they are supposed to have? They have the feel of light comedy movies but with people getting murdered by teen vigilantes, a lot of innocents lose their lives because of the actions of the main characters, not to mention that deaths and amputations are always graphic (although over-the-top).
I'm 30 and I had no problems with this but what is the target audience for these two movies? They seem too childish for most of "grown-ups" and too violent for teens.
Furthermore, I am not a moralist but I wonder what kind of message somebody can get out of these two films. Not that every film needs to have one but I find it hard to really side with teen vigilantes spreading arbitrary "justice" while their immature choices fall on innocent people (like the father of the main character who is killed in prison because of the son). Both *beep* and "Kick-ass" and his team seem to be bad in different ways. Police is not even portraied as really inefficient to justify their presence. Is there any message to be gained from this film? I just ended up siding with the police and I wasn't displeased with the arrest of Kick-ass team either.