Originality

The current Star Wars film has made so many people happy, including members of my extended family, because even if it lifted the plot almost wholesale from the first Star Wars film, "it has done it so well."

Isn't this still called plagiarism?  And beyond that...has our collective aesthetic sensibility dulled to such a degree that we believe a repetition of the same plot from the first Star Wars movie makes sense--as long as the new movie has good production values?  

I will have to see the movie to judge fairly...but I see this overt copying in an iconic movie franchise as another example of an originality deficit in this country, across many different genres.