"At one point in Made in U.S.A., Anna Karina describes the movie she's in as 'a Walt Disney film with Humphrey Bogart.' Roger Rabbit is that Disney film-belatedly but literally. And it's not half so mindboggling as the genre-busting combo envisioned by Godard (or his audience)...It is the premise of Roger Rabbit that, once upon a time (which is to say in 1947), Hollywood was populated by cartoon stars as well as flesh-and-blood ones, and that these Toons, including contract-player Roger, had their own studios, their own neighborhood of Toontown, and their own peccadillos. When Roger's humanoid wife Jessica seems to be stepping out on him, the studio hires a hard-drinking human detective (Bob Hoskins) to investigate the case. Ensuing complications enable the filmmakers to mix animation and live action on a scale unseen in the quarter-century since Mary Poppins...even as (the film) substitutes hardboiled nostalgia for Disney's traditional saccharine tone...Hoskins (carries more than his) share of the film's comedy-but part of the joke is that this squat, solid toughguy is a sort of cartoon character himself...Hoskins must have felt he was going mad, playing straight-man to a nonexistent rabbit, and the underlying fury sharpens his performance..." J. Hoberman, Village Voice