💭 Un oeuf is enough: have we had our fill of movie Easter eggs?

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They were once a sweet treat for audiences, but Deadpool & Wolverine proves that gorging on cameos, callbacks and end-credit stingers can leave you gaggingWhen Deadpool & Wolverine, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, made $438m worldwide on its opening weekend, Marvel executives must have felt as if Christmas had come early. It is Easter, though, that deserves part of the credit: Easter eggs, that is, those fan-centric surprises with which the modern blockbuster is sprinkled, or in this case cluttered.They take many forms: unpublicised cameos, in-jokes that only franchise devotees would clock, surprise scenes stowed away in the end credits, abundant references to other movies, even allusions to controversies on the sets of other movies.

The Guardian     Aug 02, 2024