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A "venerable" pastiche? Has Wall-E become an elder statesman or something?

Perhaps you'd like to try "veritable"....

Nope, I mean venerable, as in, by pastiching venerable source material, it borrows some of that dignity and polish. Anything that's a pastiche is veritable--not so hard to make (or verify) a pastiche.

Well, no...pastiche is a matter of interpretation, so saying that something is a veritable pastiche is not automatically redundant.

That said, I was just trying to reconcile the use of "venerable" in this context. Venerability implies that an item itself is venerated. If the storyline for Wall-E were lifted wholesale from Shakespeare, the usage might make sense, but here it's a stretch.