There are people who watch action movies as their first choice and do not see them as a guilty pleasure.
There's a whole bunch of these "team up" movies going right back to Seven Samurai and things such as Dark of the Sun with its chainsaw fights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rf_vulEuSw
I watched the Stallone/Schwarzenegger team up in Escape Plan and Arnie was the one who got the cheers.
There was some talk of doing an all-female version of the Expendables but it has not eventuated as yet.
Previous projects with an all-female cast have ended up being exploitation exercises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbj3SoYMzQM
Hong Kong cinema? They have done team-up movies many times, mainly for commercial reasons. The 'Five Venoms' were created specifically to do action team up movies.
Heroic Trio (Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXfNg6NN3C4
Eastern Condors (Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Joyce Godenzi, Yuen Wah, Lam Ching-ying, Yuen Woo-ping, Corey Yuen, Billy Chow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtCaJZJEEw
Wonder Seven (motorbike avengers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH_oQwJztDI