'Observe and Report's' Date Rape Scene: Funny or Offensive?

'Observe and Report's' Faris Queasy About Date Rape Scene

Still, the scene makes a lot of people queasy, including Faris.

Anna Faris, as Brandi, and Seth Rogen, as Ronnie, are shown in a scene from Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' dark comedy "Observe and Report," a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

(Peter Sorel/Warner Bros. Pictures)

"It kind of gives you pause. It's like date rape," the star of the "Scary Movie" franchise and "The House Bunny" told New York magazine. "Like, hmmm, that's funny, uh, right?"

"When the scene was shot," she told the magazine, "I was lying there thinking, 'This is wrong on so many levels. There is no way Warner Bros. is going to keep this in.'"

Warner Bros. and the film's stars did not respond to requests for comment from ABCNews.com.

"I think that's what disturbs me the most is this scene was purposely put there to elicit humor," Jennifer Storm, a rape survivor and educator in Harrisburg, Pa., told ABCNews.com. "Obviously, everyone is pushing the limit, but it's even more appalling now that rape is a joke."

Storm, who wrote about being raped twice after drinking and blacking out in her memoir "Blackout Girl," is worried that the seriousness of date rape, which happens to a reported one in six women, will get lost in the laughter. She stopped short of seeing the film after seeing the R-rated trailer for it.

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She believes the film will make murkier what is already considered a gray area -- date rape. Even The New York Times, in its profile of the film's writer and director Jody Hill, does not the call the scene rape, writing, "Before the scene is over, she indicates that she had given her consent."

"It's a date rape scene, no ifs, ands and buts. If you mumble an acknowledgement while blacked out, that is not informed consent," Storm said.

"(The reaction to the film) is clearly indicative of a much larger problem and why these cases are hardest to prosecute and sell to a jury," she added. "There seems to be a consensus of confusion about what is rape."

Ironically, the film is being released during National Sexual Assault Awareness month and Alcohol Awareness month.

"The positive thing is the film has created a flashpoint around which people are discussing all the confusion," said Martin, the feminist writer and author of "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters." "As much as I wish the scene didn't exist, I think it's clear both men and women are confused. And it's made more confusing by alcohol and the contemporary college scene that is Seth Rogen's target market.

"He should have more respect for the influence he has," said Martin, a self-professed Rogen fan. "I feel sad about the way he's using it."